JOHN E. SETTLE JR
Its illegal.
Its unethical.
Judges are expected to be honest and law abiding.
Judges are NOT expected to flout the nonprofit status of the Shreveport Bar Association.
Judges are NOT expected to have misleading campaign materials.
Judges are NOT expected to violate local ordinances.
Evidently Erin Leigh Waddell-Garrett thinks she is an exception.
She is a Caddo district judge.
She is the daughter of a retired district judge.
She is a candidate for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
She had numerous campaign signs at the Krewe of Justinian Grand Bal. Political activity is totally prohibited at events of nonprofit entities.
She posted on a campaign push card that she had been a Caddo Parish school teacher. She had only substituted less than 10 days.
She NOW has political signs on utility poles in Shreveport. Local ordinances prohibit ALL signs on utility poles.
Erin Leigh wants to sit on an appellate court that will determine if rulings by trial judges such as herself were proper.
How is she qualified to be a sitting judge, much less an appellate judge, when viewing her actions as a candidate for a higher court?
Her actions reflect negatively on the judiciary.
And they are quite telling on her qualifications to be a judge, and especially a judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.