Katie King for judge?

The past week must be a hard one for Katie King what with the 911 call accusing her of trying to break into an ex boyfriend's home. Mark Hebert did a story on this at Political Videos - Video On Demand WHAS11.com News for Louisville, Kentucky .

This opened the door to a report by Courier Journal: Judge candidate was subject of 911 call courier-journal The Courier-Journal#pluckcomments#pluckcomments#pluckcomments#plu... .

I won't even begin to address the barrage of rumors in the comments section of this article. As a former candidate myself I understand rumors are a dime a dozen.

But this is not the end of the story.

According to a neighbor Mark Hebert referred to at the end of his report this type of behavior is common for Ms. King and she had been at Mr. Otter's house before unwanted and yelling.

Domestic violence anyone?

I myself question the credibility of Ms. King as I have stated in other areas.

In fact according to a courier report on June 1, King's judicial fitness questioned courier-journal The Courier-Journal, in campaign ads, King said that she has prosecuted thousands of cases and that "I can do it, because I've done it."

Her commercial raved about how Ms. King had prosecuted "thousands" of cases. I wonder if that is possible or at least the quality of the prosecution.

In order to substantiate this claim Ms. King needed to prosecute an average of 6 cases per day, 365 days a year, for 2 full years to qualify this statement at all.

Not possible nor probable.

She acknowledged that she has never tried a jury case by herself, but said that she did assist in some, and tried some cases before judges herself. She said she didn't know how many.

King also may have best exploited more relaxed judicial campaign speech rules, which allowed her to say that, if elected, her priorities would include "putting crime victims over criminals" and that the "revolving door of criminals at the courthouse must be stopped."

Interesting to see how she will accomplish that based on these charges of her being the criminal.
The most recent spending reports show she collected 160 contributions totaling $54,760 from bankers, developers, builders and labor groups, as well as from 60 lawyers. That compared with $39,372 raised by Holton and $23,825 for Smith.

Anyone believe that Jim King had nothing to do with these numbers?

In March Hebert released the Louisville Bar results on judicial candidates Louisville Lawyers Rate Judicial Candidates - WHAS11 Political Blog and the results were not pretty.

Do we need someone that can be fair and impartial?

I believe so and in this case maturity matters.

Either way stay tuned there is certainly more on this situation to come.

Your thoughts?