I’ll be broadcasting live from the GOP State Convention on Friday from 6-8PM, and again on Saturday fro 1-3PM.<\/p>\n
I’m neither a delegate nor a member of the State Central Committee, so I won’t be voting on anything<\/p>\n
But I will be doing my level best to help any group that seeks to limit the power of the Judicial Elections Commission. \u00a0Perhaps not\u00a0end\u00a0<\/em>the JEC, per se – but in exchange for leaving the JEC alive, I want the heads of those responsible for the Michelle MacDonald debacle<\/a> displayed on pikes outside the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center.<\/p>\n Rhetorically speaking, of course.<\/p>\n Speaking of Michelle MacDonald: \u00a0she’s running for the Supreme Court again. \u00a0That’s certainly her right; hopefully the convention chair won’t make the same mistake that happened in 2014.<\/p>\n Speaking of MacDonald – her followers are making the technically true but contextually laughable assertion that MacDonald got a higher percentage of the vote than any other GOP candidate in 2014. \u00a0 Which is true…<\/p>\n …and also deeply misleading – and I can not wait for the first MacDonald supporter to try to bring that up on the air.<\/p>\n MacDonald got 46% and change, it’s true – running mostly against the GOP, and little or not at all against David Lillehaug (who ran, effectively, no campaign at all). \u00a0As I pointed out after the last election,\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>contested judicial elections get an average of 35-40% – it’s an outlet for people’s obstinacy, apparently (I always, always vote for challengers, whether I know or care about them or not, and I can not be the only one).<\/p>\n So MacDonald got about 4% more than “background noise”. \u00a0And while I have no empirical evidence for this, I’m going to speculate with confidence that had she not been running against Darth Lillehaug – one of the most anti-gun politicians (excuse me, “jurists”) in the business, she’d have come in in the thirties without a whole lot of shooters voting against Lillehaug and\u00a0not\u00a0<\/em>for MacDonald.<\/p>\n