Good for him:
Presidential hopeful Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday demanded the resignation of his own judicial nominee after she sprang a violent convicted killer over the summer, as new details emerged showing that the judge ignored warnings when she freed the ex-con, now accused of killing a Washington couple.
“There was a systematic failure in this case starting with the judge,” Romney’s spokesman, Eric Ferhnstrom, said of Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman. “Her decision represented an inexplicable lapse in judgment and was inexcusable. Unless there are facts unknown to us, (former Bay State) Gov. Romney believes Judge Tuttman should resign.”
As I wrote in this post, I don’t think he is completely to blame in this situation seeing as how his State has deemed it necessary to force a Governor to choose a judge from a list put together by a panel. Add in the fact that a bunch of NOW activists were putting the screws to him and you have the making of a disaster called Judge Tuttman.
On a side note the article does include some quotes from a few other Democrats, namely Jarrett Barrios. A gay Democrat who has tried to push through legislation in that State which would release more criminals rather then keep them locked up as they should have. He blames Mitt because he feels the outreach program would have turned the killer around apparently.
So basically in a case about a liberal judge
letting a violent criminal out too early, they chose to quote a guy who
wants the criminal justice system even more liberal then it already is.
I’m telling ya, you just can’t make this stuff up.
Bet that it may, Mitt chose her, and she made a horrible decision, and this will effect his run for President a bit:
Tuttman chose instead to overrule a District Court judge’s decision to hold Tavares on $50,000 cash bail and she set him free, saying it was unlikely the convicted killer “poses a flight risk.”
Prosecutors also asked Tuttman to put a monitoring bracelet on Tavares, citing his “significant history of violence,” but the judge refused to do that, too, according to the transcript.
“It is the Court’s view that Mr. Tavares has wrapped his sentence on the underlying offense,” Tuttman said from the bench. “He doesn’t have a history of any defaults on the record. And there is no indication . . . that he is a risk of flight, other than the nature and circumstances of the charges.”
Other then the nature and circumstances of the charges? WTF!
Do ya think the nature and circumstances of the charges should of indicated to you the guy was dangerous?
Spoken as only a registered Democrat would have spoken.
This kind of decision, along with these kind of decisions make me think twice about Mitt. People change, people make bad decisions, I understand that….but I’m looking for that person who doesn’t change just because it’s politically expedient.
Bush never changed his tune when all the polls were against him, he did what he felt was right. Reagan was also this type of person.
Who amongst the Republican nominee’s is that person now?
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