CA GOP candidate for state attorney general faces numerous charges of judicial misconduct

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Republican candidate Steven Bailey is facing nearly a dozen charges of judicial misconduct for allegedly having misused his post as an El Dorado County Superior Court judge prior to stepping down last August to run for state attorney general.

Bailey is due to appear before the state Commission on Judicial Performance next week to answer to the charges, which could result in a formal censure — though it wouldn’t impact his serving as attorney general.

Complaints against Bailey include:

•That he raised money and campaigned for attorney general, including speaking at events in Southern California, while still on the bench.

•That he improperly allowed his photo (in his judicial robe) to be used by a political polling firm and that he once commented about gay men having good taste in how to dress.

•That he accepted event tickets as gifts outside of ethics guidelines and failed to report in a timely manner covered payments for lodging, meals and honoraria at a judicial conference.

And, more seriously, that he ordered criminal defendants to use the services of CHI Monitoring, a private company that provides alcohol monitoring bracelets to the county’s probation department, without disclosing that his son worked for the firm.

... his attorney, James Murphy, questioned whether next week’s hearing was “politically motivated or a brazen attempt to sabotage Judge Bailey's campaign.”

There’s certainly no question that Bailey’s politics run counter to most Democrats in Sacramento — the South Lake Tahoe Republican, for example, has blasted Becerra’s move to defend California’s sanctuary city law and blames progressive Democratic policies for seeking to “empty the prisons, decriminalize crime” at the expense of public safety.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/GOP-candidate-for-state-attorney-general-faces-13189181.php

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1. Oh boy, another one

Go for broke, Sir, apply to the White House..