[LWVNM Action] Requesting support for SJR3

[Ann LePage]

Interesting, Karen. Thanks for the info.

Ann

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 12:44 PM karen wentworth via Action <
action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> I am hoping the Action Committee will support SJR3. This amendment removes
> the requirement that judges run in a partisan election prior to running in
> retention elections.
>
> The action committee might use the state league position "Selection of
> Judges." That says
>
> "LWVNM believes that judges of the New Mexico state courts, i.e. Supreme
> Court, Court of Appeals, District Courts, and Metropolitan Courts should be
> appointed by the governor from a screened list submitted by a non-partisan
> nominating commission and only be subject, at intervals, to non-partisan
> election for retention or rejection."
>
> This might disincentivize a difficult problem Central New Mexico faced in
> the last election.  One second judicial district court judge and two
> Albuquerque Metropolitan Court judges announced their retirement in August
> with little warning. The new appointments were not made until
> mid-September,
> so late, that CNM did not have time to send questions to the new appointees
> and simply had to list them as 'late additions to the ballot' in our
> printed
> Voter Guide. After some inquiry, it appears the retirements were announced
> at a time designed to allow the new appointments to run in a partisan
> election with no opposition. Everyone involved was a democrat. There is no
> question about the legality. It was simply troubling behavior. We have been
> searching for a way to avoid this problem in the future.
>
> Karen Wentworth
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Action <action-bounces at mailman.swcp.com> On Behalf Of Akkana Peck
> via
> Action
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2023 4:48 PM
> To: LWVNM Action <action at mailman.swcp.com>
> Cc: Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com>
> Subject: [LWVNM Action] Action meeting today at 6pm
>
> We'll be having our weekly Friday Action meeting today at 6pm.
> The Zoom link hasn't changed:
>
> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82088967453?pwd=MU1RKys2dytYMWFVYW40YjJQdDRkZz09
> Meeting ID: 820 8896 7453
> Passcode: 417870
>
> I haven't sent out an agenda because we'll be going over the bills on the
> tracking sheet, which you can preview at
> https://www.lwvnm.org/Action/2023/LWVtrack2023.html
> At lot of bills have been filed, but many still remain unfiled.
>
> See you there!
>
>         ...Akkana
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