Comments on: A judge by any other name?

By: Oscar F

Oscar F — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 07:19:05 +0000

He was a Judge. Deal with it.
Peterson is just dragging it through the courts to waste time and taxpayer money that I think would be better spent serving victims, no?

And it really doesn’t surprise me that this place is full of Peterson people. He is a man devoid of morals, who skews white. It would make sense for the like-minded to be cellar-dwellers like you lot.

By: John W

John W — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 06:49:25 +0000

Hey, it’s October. If he wants to dress up as a judge for Halloween, it’s okay with me. He could have accomplished his purpose and avoided the noise by just calling himself “Attorney and former Superior Court Judge.”

By: Needs A Honest DA

Needs A Honest DA — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 06:11:03 +0000

Is O’malley ashamed of himself being a ” Private Defense Attorney” defending people “Accused” of crimes like “Roy Gordon”? Why does he not use use current title PROUDLY as “Private Defense Attorney”. O’malley says he left the bench to run to DA but he left bench in 2006 but his kickoff for DA was in 2009. Can O’malley tell me what has he been doing since he left bench in 2006. I remember seeing his website…”PRIVATE DEFENSE ATTORNEY… Time to tell the true, Omalley, a judge can’t represent Roy Gordon, right? Tell the true…we need a honest DA to lead the DA’s office…Please…

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Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:03:15 +0000

[...] Elwood: Flash! This just in! O’Malley is a defense attorney who defends people ACCUSED of crimes. Which, if you… [...]

By: Elwood

Elwood — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:00:55 +0000

Flash!

This just in!

O’Malley is a defense attorney who defends people ACCUSED of crimes.

Which, if you listen to one idiot posting on here, makes him guilty (of something) prima facie.

By: Djundrcover

Djundrcover — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:44:40 +0000

Thanks Lisa for the contact information. I appreciate it.

By: John W

John W — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:42:18 +0000

I wouldn’t presume to advise a newspaper on who it should or shouldn’t endorse unless I thought the newspaper had some hidden agenda or conflict of interest. But I have been curious to see whether the Times would revisit its prior endorsement of O’Malley. I thought the original endorsement was lukewarm, and that was before Peterson’s strong performance in first round. I cast my mail-in ballot for O’Malley before the Times endorsed, but changed my mind later based on some of the comments in the endorsement, Peterson’s showing in the election and the prospect of one too many O’Malley’s contemporaneously driving the East Bay justice system bus.

By: Lisa Vorderbrueggen

Lisa Vorderbrueggen — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:13:34 +0000

Djundrcover: You’re right. I cropped the shot substantially tighter than the original version on O’Malley’s Web site in an effort to de-emphasize the robe but obviously, not enough. I have now cropped my Flikr account version (where we load the photos we post on our blogs) even tighter, where it just shows his face. As for the editorial board endorsement, I don’t sit on the editorial board and have no input or role into the endorsement process. I read the editorials in the newspaper at the same time you do. You should direct your criticisms of that decision to Dan Hatfield, the editorial page editor, at dhatfield @bayareanewsgroup.com.

By: Djundrcover

Djundrcover — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:05:26 +0000

Lisa, you should have used a photo of Dan in something other than his robe. He is not a judge and that is the whole reason there is an issue with it. I know of many other photos of Dan from his websites, google and Facebook that could have been used.

The reason I also have an issue with it also a result of the Times unfortunate endorsement of Dan and they way the Times has gone out of it’s way to portray Mark and build up Dan. I hope your newspaper would consider a dual endorsement, or drop O’Malley all together based on all these issues (Mis-statements, Roy Gordon, his shady connection to the Gresset case…etc). Just my two cents. I thought Dan looked particularly bad in the recent debate and seems to be falling apart. Mark got 47 percent of the vote and would have won, had it not been for Elle. That should mean something to your newspaper.

Thanks

By: Lisa Vorderbrueggen

Lisa Vorderbrueggen — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:29:00 +0000

To Your(sic) Kidding Me: I used a tightly cropped photo of O’Malley in his robes on my blog because that’s what is on O’Malley’s web site. Lisa v.