[Mpls] Judge James Swenson on today's ballot

[Lynnell Mickelsen]

RE: Tim Bonham's list of judges for election.

I'd probably second all of Tim's choices and reasonings. Tim acknowledged he didn't know much about the Incumbent Judge James Swenson race against challenger Robert D. Schwartz.
That makes two of us.
But my neighbor, who never ever puts up political lawn signs, has a Judge Swenson sign in his yard. So I asked him about it and my neighbor said Schwartz is challenging Judge Swenson because Swenson was the judge in Schwartz' s divorce proceedings. Schwartz is a wealthy attorney who didn't like the way Judge Swenson ruled on his divorce. Hence, the challenge.
Says my neighbor: "I don't know anything about either of these guys. But the idea of that a wealthy guy would run against a judge based on a grudge match over a divorce is enough to make me support the incumbent."
Hey, who says lawn signs don't matter? It made me have this conversation which I'm now passing on.

Lynnell Mickelsen
Ward 13, Linden Hills, who was planning on driving folks to the polls today, but has a kid home sick with stomach flu and is thus stuck writing e-mails on judicial races. Darn!

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