* Appointing judges to the bench is not a fail-safe system, as we know. Depends on who’s doing the appointing.
But isn’t there something inherently uncomfortable about judicial candidates campaigning, fund-raising and self-promoting?
Too often it seems like good, well-intentioned people being forced to act like, well, politicians.
* Speaking of judicial races, The Hillsborough County race between County Judge Chris Nash and criminal defense attorney Norman S. Cannella Jr. has been getting a lot of ink. No surprise. Being the son of Norman S. Cannella Sr. will guarantee no less. No word yet, however, on whether a certain Sponge-like former client of Cannella’s will formally endorse.