Each candidate received the same questions and had seven days with which to respond. Each candidate responded.
Today, April 7, 2014, the judicial candidate interviews will begin to post in the order in which they were received by the Copper Gazette, one interview per day. No editing has been done with exception to a handwritten interview portion turned in by Ken Foley which was transcribed verbatim.
Please take time to read the interviews, as these candidates before you will represent you and your county for many years to come.
As always, before casting your vote, become informed, ask questions of those seeking to represent you.
The following are the questions and rules submitted to the candidates:
Judge candidate interview questions:
For which department is your candidacy?
How long have you resided in Calaveras County?
What are your qualifications?
What are your greatest strengths?
What are your greatest weaknesses?
Do you feel you can be impartial?
Why have you chosen to be a candidate for civil/criminal
superior court judge?
What do you perceive as the greatest obstacles to justice
within our County?
How would you address the perceived rise in juvenile crime?
Do you support specialty courts? (Please explain your answer
and define which specialty courts you would like to see continue or implemented
in Calaveras County.)
What is your general judicial philosophy?
Would you favor or oppose a system in which all sentencing
decisions were routinely reported in local newspapers, indexed by the name of
the judge?
Have you ever been disciplined by the State Bar association?
What are your outside interests?
At this point I will allow any additional information the
candidate would like to disseminate to the public within the parameters of the
judicial canon, limited to 200 words.
Please note; each candidate will receive the same set of questions.
Interviews will be posted in the order received. The deadline to submit
responses will be April 3, 2014, 9am. Interviews will begin to be posted April
7, 2014.
Rules: The invitation to be interviewed by the Copper
Gazette comes with the caveat that each interviewee will maintain a high level
of propriety and highlight their best attributes. The Gazette will NOT print
inflammatory or derogatory statements made of other candidates. Thank you in
advance for your professionalism.
Again, thank you for your participation in the Copper
Gazette judicial interview process.
