The word was the circuit judges did not like getting those letters and resented the political intrusion into the judiciary. It may have cost him the opportunity to get this job.

Our judges in Kane County have been proudly independent of political affiliations.

There are some aspects of running for judge that does not fit in a political process. There shouldn't be any such thing as a Republican judge or Democratic judge. We are not supposed to be involved with politics and we are not supposed to have political agendas.

Is it cross-contamination from the Leahy-Daschle letters? Could've been. Is that the easy way out? Maybe.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

The letters are goofy,