Outside money pouring into state Supreme Court race
Via the Chicago Tribune
Judicial retention elections are normally quiet races that are not very political. But less than three weeks ago, a political action group called Campaign for 2016 surfaced with the aim of persuading voters in southern Illinois to oust Supreme Court Justice Lloyd Karmeier, seeking his second 10-year term.
The group, funded mostly by plaintiffs’ lawyers based in St. Louis, aired a television ad Oct. 18 that began, “What’s inside the mind of Judge Lloyd Karmeier?” The voice-over went on to say that after Karmeier’s 2004 election campaign received $4 million from pro-business interests, the judge voted to overturn multimillion-dollar verdicts against Philip Morris and State Farm. The ad ends, “Our justice is not for sale.”
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