Interest in BOG election starting to pique: “Let’s Fix our State Bar.”

With the start of online elections just 8 calendar days away on May 7, 2014, Arizona bar members are starting to revisit the candidate statements published weeks ago online and more recently, in the state bar’s monthly magazine. And indeed, as I’ve been told, this week our in boxes will receive a bar blast email with links again to the Board of Governor (BOG) candidate statements.

And just today Ruth Carter at The Undeniable Ruth sent me a link containing her own take on the upcoming BoG election “Let’s Fix our State Bar – Vote in the BoG Election! Here’s Who Made My Short List.” She posted it early this morning. And the title says it all.

But something else Ruth said also resonated me. It was her litmus test of sorts – “money.” When it came down to reading and re-reading those candidate campaign statements — all thirty-three of them in Maricopa County, to quote Ruth, “If a candidate didn’t mention money, I feared they would be too afraid to take a stand when it mattered. I need a BoG who will speak for me.”

Well said.