Former Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Sandra newman: Race Baiter
Face of Race Hate
Former Pa. justice apologizes for anti-Obama e-mail that warned of a second Holocaust
A former Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice is apologizing after her signature was on an e-mail message to Jewish voters that likened a vote for Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to ignoring warning signs that led to the Holocaust.
In an e-mail Monday, Sandra Schultz Newman said the e-mail was misguided and she regrets she did not carefully review the final draft before it was released.
Sure, you didn’t read it Sandy: you just regret that you got caught.
For Pennsylvania readers who recognize that name, “Justice” Newman nearly lost her job due to her role in bilking Pennsylvanians in the 2005 pay raise scandal, and later quit because she couldn’t take the heat from citizens
If you’ll recall, the infamous July 2005 middle-of-the-night pay raise for Pennsylvania politicians and judges was hatched up by Gov. Ed Rendell, legislative leaders (most of whom have been voted out of office) and Ralph Cappy, chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Cappy’s court eventually ruled that the way the legislators took the pay raise (something called unvouchered expenses) was unconstitutional, but restored the 10 percent pay raises for themselves and 1,200 other state and local judges. And they also tied future pay increases to salaries of federal judges.
The backlash against Pennsylvania judges began in 2005 when Russell Nigro failed to win his retention re-election for another 10-year term on the state’s highest court. The other judge on the ballot that year, Sandra Schultz Newman, narrowly won her retention vote, but she ended up resigning from the court in 2006, citing the constant criticism of judges by Pennsylvania residents.
She now adds “race baiting” next to “crook” on her resume.
Well done, Sandra!
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