[EL] is it seemly for Justice Breyer to be pictured in his son's campaign literature?

[Edward Still]

Richard,

I was just thinking about a similar situation. Judge Bob Vance is the
Democratic nominee for Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court against
Roy Moore (the "Ten Commandments Judge"). Bob is married to Joyce Vance, US
Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Joyce is pictured a couple
of times on Bob's website -- a wedding picture and a family picture with
children and children-in-law, but no mention of her job.

The Republican Party, on the other hand, has sent out a mailer (arrived
today in my mailbox) asking if  Obama's appointment of Joyce was a
"payback" (for the $4,000 Bob and Joyce donated to the 2008 Obama Victory
Fund) or "an endorsement of shared liberal values."


Edward Still
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On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I live in a California legislative district in which Justice Stephen
> Breyer's son is one of the two candidates on the November ballot.  The son,
> Michael Breyer, has sent out at least 4 direct mail pieces.  Two of them
> picture him with his father.  The caption is "Michael Breyer with dad, U.S.
> Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, and mom, Joanna Breyer."
>
> The other two pieces are attack pieces on Michael Breyer's opponent.  The
> opponent is San Francisco's Assessor, and the Breyer attack pieces claim
> the Assessor is corrupt.
>
> Both candidates are on the ballot as Democrats.
>
> It makes me queasy seeing Justice Breyer on campaign literature, even if
> the candidate is his son.  In a sense, U.S. Supreme Court Justices are the
> U.S. equivalent of British royalty.  The queen doesn't even vote, and it
> would be unthinkable for any member of the royal family to appear in on
> campaign literature for a candidate for House of Commons or a local
> partisan election office.  U.S. Supreme Court Justices, like the Queen, are
> formally part of the national government yet are expected to be
> non-partisan.
>
> Richard Winger
> 415-922-9779
> PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
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