When you get ruled against in a court of law, there's always the court of public opinion:
Adair ruled Friday that she would not reopen voter registration to accommodate Democrats whose forms might have been tossed by Voter's Outreach of America, a voter registration organization working for the Republican Party.
Eric Russell, a former member of Voter's Outreach, told KLAS-TV, Channel 8 last week that he witnessed supervisors tearing up Democratic registration forms.
Adair said under Nevada law those who believe they've been wrongfully denied the right to vote can file individual lawsuits against the Clark County registrar asking to be included on the voter rolls.
Democrats angered by her decision questioned the process and Adair's connections to the Republican Party.
Adair's live-in boyfriend, Thomas Lozzi, is a former executive board member for the Clark County Republican Central Committee. Lozzi said his last stint on the committee's 40-member executive board was in 2002.
Channel 8 aired the couple's home address on Monday evening's newscast. Tuesday morning, liberal radio host Al Franken spoke about Adair's decision and publicized her county office phone number.
Channel 8, by the way, is our local CBS affiliate.
Adair ''was getting phone calls from people who heard his show, calling and telling her she needed to resign," said [District Court spokesman] Sommermeyer, who did not hear Franken's show. "The allegations are that they gave out her office number and had given out her home address."
Republican Party officials held a news conference Tuesday denouncing Channel 8's decision to air Adair's home address. Bob Stoldal, vice president of news operations at Channel 8, did not return a phone message left Tuesday.
"Judge Adair is doing an honorable job," said Brian Scroggins, chairman of the Clark County Republican Party. "Her decision was based on the facts."
And the fact is, even if there were shenanigans, opening voter registration would extend the expired deadline. In these last two weeks, with new ads and polls almost hourly, even those who weren't affected by Voter Outreach's action could register, which is unfair to many more people than those who think their forms were shredded. Asking those people to file individual lawsuits is the only way to have any oversight in the process.
Aside from all that, Channel 8 is populated by assclowns. If Franken wants to air the story and give Valerie Adair's office number to his (admittedly few) listeners, fine. But for a 'news organization' to report the home address of a District Judge is not only stupid, it's possibly dangerous. Ms. Adair could be overseeing criminal trials, or civil trials where defendants would be very interested in where she lived.
Maybe Her Honor should sue them.
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