GOP leader calls on misdemeanor judge to resign (Harris county)

[sonias]

AAS 11/26/08
GOP leader calls on misdemeanor judge to resign

HOUSTON — A Harris County GOP leader wants a Republican misdemeanor court judge to resign because he has used the courthouse computer system to send e-mails that used racial slurs and ridiculed blacks, Hispanics, women and gays.

Harris County Republican Party Chairman Jared Woodfill has called on County Court at Law No. 6 Judge Larry Standley to resign over e-mails sent in 2006 that recently resurfaced.

"When you see racism like that you have to kill it one act at a time," Woodfill said. "Regardless of what party you are affiliated with, you have to stand up and say it was wrong."

(snip)
"The people have given him the trust of the office of judge, and when you have sent e-mail like that you have compromised the trust that people have given to you," Woodfill said. "You surrender the moral authority when you promulgate e-mails like that. They are not funny and they have no business in the courthouse or your personal life."

Wow, still cleaning house in Harris. This little racist bastard, Larry Standley, is the next to be kicked out of office - one way or another. :grr:

Sonia

[PDittie]

1. Woodfill as "Asshat Lawyer of the Day"

from local bloglawyer Mark Bennett (who is sticking up for Standley):

Woodfill, unless he’s even more clueless about Harris County politics than I am, knew about these emails, including their specific content, in October 2006. If that content justifies calling for his resignation now, it has called for it every day for the last two years.

Woodfill pitches this as the party acting, but it turns out that party leadership met recently in executive session and did not decide to act against Standley.What Woodfill is doing is trying to give the idea of ousting Standley some legs before the party has to make a decision on it.

It’s a hatchet job. Not only is it a hatchet job, but it’s a hatchet job undertaken for personal revenge. Not only is it a hatchet job undertaken for personal revenge, but it’s a hatchet job undertaken for personal revenge against one of the fairest, most just misdemeanor judges in the courthouse.

And that’s what makes Jared Woodfill today’s Asshat Lawyer of the Day.

http://bennettandbennett.com/blog/2008/11/somewhere-napoleon-is-smiling.html

Woodfill really DOES bear a striking resemblance to Butthead. :rofl:

[sonias]

2. Nice blog post

I loved this part:

Flash forward to 2008, right after an election for Harris County Criminal District Court (felony) benches in which the Republican Party got its rich white ass handed to it. Judge Fields is hoping to be appointed to a vacant seat on the Court of Appeals (the intermediate appellate court for both civil and criminal cases); Harris County Republican Party Chairman lawyer Jared Woodfill (who bears a striking resemblance to a certain Mike Judge character) had recommended Judge Fields for the position.

Bold emphasis mine because I laughed out loud! :rofl::rofl::rofl:

And yes Woodfield and Butthead are apparently related. He could be Butthead's father. he he he he.


Sonia

[Lithos]

3. The GOP just discovered "religion"

again...