Thank you voters of York County

[Ceasar]

Eschbach's husband is a District Magistrate in Dover Township and was a local police chief.
She can run as a write-in candidate.
The Bar Association rankings are a joke (there are no standards and therefore you are casting a vote solely based on what you may have heard about a candidate) as is the idea of electing judges, especially Supreme Court Justices and Superior Court Judges.

I know many share your view that electing Judges is a mistake. But I don't put any more faith in a Judge who is appointed. If Tom Wolf, Corbett, Rendell, etc... appoint someone why should we accept that appointee as somehow being more "pure" than someone who is elected? There is an old expression regarding appointed judges that a Judge is nothing more than the friend of a politician. I agree with you about the Bar Association rankings, they are a joke for sure.

 

[Glen]

Jonelle Eschbach had the Bar endorsement, the most signs in the area, the most letters of support in the newspapers, had everything going for her EXCEPT that little screw up with the presentment. It is now two elections in a row she has lost - priceless.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

Jonelle Eschbach had the Bar endorsement

Read my earlier post about this. For local judicial races in PA, the local bar associations don't endorse candidates, or put the candidates through an interview and review process. The York County Bar Association had a survey of members, where only a percentage of the members participated. (If I remember correctly, it was 57% that participated in the judicial candidate evaluation survey for this primary election.) Eshbach was voted either Highly Qualified or Qualified by 81% of the York County Bar Assoc members that participated in the survey. That was significantly higher than Matthew Menges, who won the Republican primary (23% of the bar members who participated in the survey felt he was Highly Qualified or Qualified) and significantly higher than Sanda Thompson, who won the Democratic primary (18% of the bar members who participated in the survey felt she was Highly Qualified or Qualified).

 

[Glen]

Ya well Tom, how ever you slice it, the presentation was that she was the most qualified - I saw that as an endorsement. I had the great pleasure to not check her name. I also convinced multiple others to vote another candidate. She definitely had the most organized support and that included many from the bar association writing letters to the newspapers to support her. She had by far the most signs around the county. It was heat news that she went down - again.