--News from the Michigan Democrats about the Taxpayer Party nominee for Michigan Supreme Court, whose name I have removed from the press release because I don't want to give her any name recognition--
Michigan Democratic Party Files Complaint Alleging Unethical Conduct:
LANSING – The Michigan Democratic Party today filed a complaint with the Judicial Tenure Commission over the unethical campaign conduct of fake GOP Supreme Court candidate, who is currently serving as her campaign’s treasurer despite a prohibition against judicial candidates doing so in Michigan.
“Fake GOP candidate, [name omitted here], violated the Code of Judicial Conduct on the very first day of her candidacy,” said Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer. “Not only is she a fake candidate, but an unethical and incompetent one as well, given that she can’t follow well-established ethical requirements.”
In order to prevent judicial candidates from engaging in inappropriate political activity, Canon 7 of the Michigan Code of Judicial Conduct forbids judicial candidates from personally soliciting or accepting campaign funds, a prohibition that has been interpreted to include serving as a campaign committee’s treasurer (see, for example, JI-14, 1989).
[The candidate], a longtime GOP voter, activist, and donor, and former law clerk to Republican Chief Justice Robert Young Jr., was nominated by the Taxpayer Party as its first-ever Supreme Court candidate.
“Not since Speaker Bolger and Roy Schmidt left an incriminating trail of text messages about their election fraud scheme have we seen such bungling by a fake GOP candidate,” said Brewer. “Maybe she should enroll in an ethics class at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where she teaches.”
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