Mittens calls on judge he appointed to resign - Ghouliani pounces

What a dipshit...

Romney calls on judge he appointed to resign

DERRY, New Hampshire (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called on a Massachusetts Superior Court judge he appointed to resign after she released a convicted killer without bail, and the man allegedly killed a newlywed couple in Washington state.

Judge Kathe Tuttman's decision to free Daniel Tavares Jr. "showed an inexplicable lack of good judgment in a hearing that decided to put someone on the street who had not only in the past been convicted of manslaughter, but had threatened the lives of other individuals and was a flight risk," Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, told reporters Saturday while campaigning in Derry.

"And I think on that basis that despite her record as being a law and order prosecutor, her lack of judgment suggests that she needs to resign from that post."

Tuttman has declined comment on the case.

In June, Tavares completed a 16-year sentence for manslaughter for killing his mother, but prosecutors tried to keep him behind bars for allegedly assaulting two prison guards while he was nearing the end of his sentence.

Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said Tavares, 41, had also threatened in a letter intercepted by prison officials in February 2006 to kill Romney and other state officials.

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Republican presidential rival Rudy Giuliani used the incident Saturday to criticize Romney's record on crime.

"The governor is going to have to explain his appointment and the judge is going to have to explain her decision, but it's not an isolated situation," Giuliani told The Associated Press during an interview aboard his campaign bus during a stop in Laconia, New Hampshire. "Gov. Romney did not have a good record in dealing with violent crime."

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-11-24-romney-judge_N.htm?csp=34

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The shit rolls uphill, too!

"helping these people get back on their feet"

Foot, George, FOOT.

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Giuliani and George Pataki victimized the judge for following procedure and precedent.



Gov. George E. Pataki and Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani lost no time screaming for Judge Duckman's scalp. Then other judges came in their cross hairs, damned as responsible for New York's crime problems. It was an all-out assault, abetted mightily by baying tabloid headlines about ''junk justice.''

LOST in the noise was a critical fact: The State Commission on Judicial Conduct and other bodies that reviewed the Oliver case determined that Judge Duckman had done nothing wrong. But by then, he had become the poster child in a conservative campaign against pointy-headed, lenient judges. Officials were determined to build a case against him, and, in Mr. Duckman's view, "it was a done deal from the very beginning."


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