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We have to admire California conservatives. Their tenacity and endless array of game plans and responses to the unthinkable possibility of fairness for one and all can be head spinning.  It isn’t enough that they voted out a minority group’s civil rights–they want to police and run the whole kit and kaboodle.

We’re guessing due to the fallout from the revelation of Prop 8 trial Judge Vaughn Walker’s sexuality, that this news sent Prop 8trs and friends screaming and quoting scriptures back to the blackboard for some serious restrategizing.

The latest assault to common decency? An effort to rehaul the state’s judicial system called Better Courts Now.  The Chula Vista-based grassroots political drive–which is also backed by the National Organization for Marriage (NOM)—is an attempt to flush San Diego County’s court system of liberal judges by placing emphasis on family values and pro life support. If successful in San Diego guaranteed they’ll waste no time taking the show on the road statewide.

• The current seated Superior Court Judges of San Diego County total 129.
• 27 of those judges are up for re-election in 2010.

Their angle by the way isn’t just getting rid of liberal judges—oh that would be a tad too weak.  It’s what these folks say liberal judges have cost California taxpayers. The banner they’re waving is that the state could’ve saved $40 million dollars had those four effing bleeding liberals on the California Supreme Court not struck down the ban on gay marriage in 2008.

We have to admit, the pocketbook angle could be pretty potent insofar as pointing fingers goes these days at who’s to blame for the state’s current economic circumstances aka broke-ass California.

According to the Capital Weekly, the Better Courts Now Web site features 21 videos extolling the virtues of strong family values and the need for judicial overhaul with such spokespersons as: Assemblyman Joel Anderson, R-La Mesa, Steve Baldwin, who held the AD 77 seat from 1995 through 2000; Ron Prentice, San Diego chairman for the Yes on 8 Campaign; Don Hamer, a prominent black pastor in San Diego; Dean Broyles, an attorney the Western Center for Law & Policy; Brian Jones, vice mayor of Santee; and Charles Li Mandri, west coast regional director of the Thomas More Law Center.

We just hope progressive organizations are already on top of this and in the midst of preparing a response campaign to nip it in the bud.

Here’s their one token negro so far Don Hamer, giving his pitch. And whaddya know, he’s a church minister:

Capital Weekly: San Diego-based group mounts effort to elect conservative judges.

Rightwing Watch: Prop 8 Backers Seek to Take Control Of California Courts

Better Courts Now Web site: Better Courts Now

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