The Montgomery County Democratic Committee has endorsed Anne Lazarus, Kevin Dougherty and David Wecht for PA Supreme Court as well as Alice Beck Dubow for PA Superior Court.
The MCDC’s executive committee held the vote for the endorsements last Thursday night, and both decisions were unanimous.
Judge Lazarus was elected to the Superior Court in 2009, after serving on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Judge Dubow has been a lawyer in private practice for 23 years, and has been a judge on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas for the past seven years.
The committee decided to endorse one PA Supreme Court candidate and a Superior Court candidate because the State Democratic Party left those slots open after its endorsement meeting last February. They are also backing the party’s chosen candidates.
Montgomery County Democratic chairman Marcel L. Groen hailed Lazarus and Dubow as exemplary judges with superb qualifications who will be strong contenders for the party in the November general election.
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Donohue,Lazerus,and Wecht are all highly recommended by the Bar Association. They have written literally thousands of opinions on the Superior Court.
All three have the experience to be great Judges on the State Supreme Court. Dougherty,Foradota, and Woodruff are all nice men but all three have never written one opinion. In these times we need experience on State Supreme Court.
How do you know my qualifications? Have we meT? Do you know anything about my education? My history? My friends and family in the legal profession? My years of working in the political world? My research? My contacts with Judicial Review?
Cheryl Allen will bring the common sense we need to the PA Supreme court. Someone with a strong sense of family values and personal responsibility.
The committee’s Philly-area myopia is regrettable. Jefferson County Judge John Foradora is an outstanding candidate who does not bring the baggage associated with the previous elections of the endorsed candidates. Foradora will make an excellent Supreme Court justice.
Barbara, you’re not highly qualified to comment on this story or you don’t know how the Bar recommendations work.
Why endose Dougherty when he is not considered Highly Qualified by the State Bar Association and Donohue and Wecht are, along with Lazarus?