It's kind of like a low-grade fever. It's not like people are running around saying, 'Oh, my goodness, the former governor is on trial.' We all know that. We've been living with this scandal for seven years now.

Those are good proposals that we've heard from a lot of the candidates. It's not groundbreaking.

The vast majority of judges are extraordinarily honorable people, but when you've got big dollars flying around and a lot of special interests circling like hornets over judicial elections, it creates an impression that ultimately is damaging to the judiciary.

We have allowed judicial elections in this state to become rough-and-tumble political battlegrounds.

We want to move from a culture of corruption to reform. It's time to get serious and give the public the government they deserve.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist to say this looks fishy.