Making the Front Page Again
Apr. 8th, 2004 01:43 amMaking News Again
THIS article about me in the aggie tomorrow (Thursday) is not altogether pleasing to me. I got rather the impression that the reporter, having already talked to Sara Henry and Paloma Perez, was already rather hostile towards me, the court, the cases, and the green party, before talking to me. I hoped that after sitting through a Court meetings and seeing that we were nice people she would soften towards us, but apparently not.
Article Summary: Paloma Perez & Sara Henry expressed to the aggie their intention to question my ability to be unbiased on Case # 24. To avoid controversy I have removed myself from that case.
When I first got the email monday that the aggie wanted to take my picture for an article, I knew it wasn't going to be a good thing. Over the course of the week I became more concerned about this, particularly once it was confirmed that the whole thing was about whether or not I should sit on the case.
Court meetings always cheer me up though. I get piles of crap from everyone about court stuff, and then I finally meet with the other justices, all of whom have stood together in every major decision of my administration. It was very nice to hear them joking about how they won't be able to do cases without me and if I ever was removed they'd all resign in protest. I was hoping the respect the court members have for me would have some effect on the reporter, but apparently she was unphased by it.
Also I agreed to do the administrative work to put on Case # 24, even though I won't be party to it. It would have been nice to get out of it, but I just cannot picture the case being put on adequately without my involvement. I'd like to work on training others to do that though so that when I'm gone things don't fall apart.