I was going to write a thread about retention vs. non-retention of judges in CO...and then I realized that you should be UTTERLY TERRIFIED of doing ANYTHING to draw attention to you in america's current political climate.  

Especially of anyone involved in the "judgments and prosecutions for hire" business.  Good show, .gov.  Good show.

Then change your thread title.  En-Is-Aa records everything.

Is there anyone we actually want to support?

I personally know Robert hawthorn. He is a good man, gun enthusiast, Hunter, small town boy from Missouri like me.

In Douglas county judge chase took care of me during my divorce. So I voted for her.

ETA: I'm not thrilled with the information available. Googling the judges mostly just gets me the content-free vapid bullshit that the Commission on Judicial Performance puts out. I want the actual decisions that each of those clowns authored or dissented from or concurred in. So I'm going to flood this thread and the one I started with my own stuff.

CO Supreme Court: Hood, as a district judge in Denver at the time,  let a Democrat pressure group draw the map for the 2011 redistricting. And he was a Hickenloser appointee.
So F--- him.

CO Court of Appeals:

Karen Ashby was one of the judges who let the state magazine ban and let's-pretend-it's-not-registration statute stand. That's enough for me to vote "no" without any further effort.

Michael Berger concurred with the "F*** you, bake me a cake" ruling. He also concurred on a reversal of a murder conviction that sent it back for a new trial in Weld County, which I don't think was a horrible call in that case (the trial judge let a bunch of character witnesses in, and IMHO shouldn't have.) Just based upon the "Christian bakery" ruling (and even speaking as a supporter of gay marriage) f*** him too. (Also a Hickenloser appointee, by the way.)

Steven Bernard: Appointed by Owens. Frequently assumed of a pro-prosecution bias when he reviewed criminal matters. Can't find any cases where he ruled as a judge, but there are a few where he was the prosecutor. Also, remember the Jeffco teacher sick-out a few years ago? Bernard was one of the three (along with Hawthorne and Navarro, also on the ballot) who held that the identities of the teachers involved were public record. Still trying to make up my mind.

Robert Hawthorne: Wrote the decision forcing CU to honor concealed weapons licenses "valid in all areas of the state." I like him just for that, if nothing else.

My wife looked up every judge on the ballot. Her and I voted to remove EVERY judge that Hickenpooper appointed on the ballot.

Same here but that was just the first criteria for my judicial decisions.

The recommendation in the blue book was to retain every single one of them  


If in doubt, throw 'em out

there was one "no retain" in my book

this is easy to do on ballotopedia.com

Maybe unfair on my part, but i make it a point to not retain any judge .

Good,bad,or in different.

Voted to not retain any of them, with the full knowledge that it is a rare occurrence that any are actually voted out.

Thanks for that tip, that made it easy.