100% of Cook County Judges Have to Be Democrats or Else

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The things ya gotta do to become a judge in Cook County.

Sometimes you have to spend years cultivating relationships with Democratic committeemen, drive senior citizens to the polling place on Election Day, and hand out palm cards in the cold. Or you have to be born into, or marry into, a politically connected family.

Sometimes you have to spend years cultivating relationships with Democratic committeemen, drive senior citizens to the polling place on Election Day, and hand out palm cards in the cold. Or you have to be born into, or marry into, a politically connected family.

Here's the new wrinkle: Now some committeemen want you to have quality courtroom experience, too.

Here's the new wrinkle: Now some committeemen want you to have quality courtroom experience, too.

The new dynamic was on display at the Palmer House Hilton on Sept.6-7, as 39 mostly qualified and some pretty well-clouted lawyers sought to be slated for 12 judgeships before 80 Democratic ward and township committeemen who -- more than anyone else -- decide who becomes a judge in Cook County.

More often than not, the committeemen's picks win the Democratic primary. The general election is a non-issue, as no Republican has beaten a Democrat in a countywide race for judge in decades.

How strange,100% of Cook County voters aren't Democrats.I guess some "progressives" don't really care about representation.