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Election season is such a weird, wonderful time. Take, for example, the campaign for two open judgeships. A veritable stampede of lawyers pulled papers to run. We started with nine (9!) candidates — three vying for the retiring H.A. “Skip” Staley’s seat and the remaining six going after the retiring Clarence Westra’s seat. Things heated up right off the bat when Ronald Carter, vying for Staley’s seat, dropped out rather than fight elections officials who said he was ineligible because of his on-again-off-again law license status. The Staley seat has only two candidates and seems to have settled into a sleepy race with occasional public forums. But scratch the surface of the slate running for Westra’s seat and things get more interesting. First are rumors that Deputy District Attorney Holly Mitchell, who is black, once vowed to not prosecute African-Americans arrested in southeast Bakersfield because the Bakersfield Police Department...
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