California
Defying the predictions of political pundits, a write-in candidate in the March 5 primary election managed to garner more votes than an Orange County judge accused of child molestation, even though the jurist’s name was the only one on the ballot.
March 22, 2002
Election: The lead write-in, Dana Point attorney John Adams, says he will fight accused O.C. jurist’s effort to quit runoff--an exit legal experts call unlikely.
March 14, 2002
Election: Lead write-in says he will fight O.C. jurist’s attempt to quit runoff--an exit legal experts say is unlikely.
Elections: Supervisors say they’ll oppose the attempt by the judge facing child porn charges to withdraw from ballot.
March 26, 2002
Election: Jurist facing molestation charge says attempt to get off ballot doesn’t mean he’s guilty.
March 15, 2002
Ending one of Orange County’s strangest election dramas, a Superior Court judge who had sought a second term while facing child pornography and molestation charges won permission Thursday to drop out of the upcoming election.
June 21, 2002
Politics
Re “Board to Fight Kline’s Pullout,” March 26: I voted for John Adams, a man about whom I knew very little, in the primary election, but I have been disappointed with his actions since the election.
April 7, 2002
You’d think that having a judge on the ballot who’s charged with molestation and possessing kiddie porn wouldn’t generate much comic material.
March 27, 2002
Election: First the No. 2, now also the No. 3 primary vote-getter will appear after incumbent Ronald Kline withdrew over child sex charges.
July 15, 2002
First the incumbent, charged with molestation and child porn, quit the Orange County contest. Now two rivals fight over one’s personal history.
Oct. 15, 2002