by Sharon Noonan Kramer, advocate for integrity in health marketing and U.S. courts.
Email sent on May 26, 2014
Honorable Judge Longstreth,
Memorial Day seems the appropriate day to send you this message. This is the day that all those who have given their lives to defend the Constitutional rights of United States citizens are honored.
On May 20th, you sent an eblast to “Friends and Voters” stating which candidates you endorse for San Diego County Superior Court seats in the upcoming June 3rd elections. Your endorsement email came with the suggestion that it be forwarded to others; and with your offer to provided more information and answer questions of those in receipt of your email. To quote:
“Dear Friends and Voters
Because the makeup of the state trial court bench is so important to the administration of justice, I would like to provide the following information for you to consider as you cast your vote. Four of my colleagues have been challenged and are seeking to continue serving the Court: Michael Popkins, Ron Prager, Lisa Schall and Jackie Stern. I believe that all of them should be re-elected.….In Office # 20, Judge Lisa Schall….She is endorsed by law enforcement and community leaders, including City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and Public Defender Henry Coker, as well as all 125 sitting judges and over 15 retired judges…..she has made decisions based on what she believes is right, not on what is politically popular. Her opponent has no judicial experience, and the County Bar rates Judge Schall as more highly qualified…..Please feel free to pass this information on if you find it helpful, and let me know if you have any questions or need any further information. Above all, please vote on or before June 3! Thank you for your attention. Judge Bob Longstreth”
I am letting you know that your email was forwarded to us at Katy’s Exposure Blog and onto others who are helping to inform voters of the intricacies of upcoming local elections. Thank you for your offer to clarify what is important about the make-up of the state trial court bench when assuring justice prevails in the local courts. We find your offer to answer questions and provide further information regarding your endorsee, Judge Lisa Schall, to be potentially very helpful.
The reason we require further information is because Judge Schall has avoided answering voters’ questions – even though she, too, sent an eblast similar to yours offering to do so on March 7th. Judge Schall sent the following while fundraising. She wrote,
“Dear friends, counsel and colleagues:
I am running for re-election on June 3rd. I have served over 7 years as a Deputy District Attorney and now over 28 years as a San Diego Superior Court Judge. (CV attached) Some of you know me professionally others socially. I believe that I have a reputation for being fair and balanced. I am asking for your help…[there’s more here]…I am asking you to help me by circulating my name and website. I am glad to respond to any questions you may have, simply respond to this email. Thank you for taking the time to read my request. Please do not use public agency computer sites or addresses to distribute, use only your private email.
Judge Lisa Schall (Re-Elect 2014)
JudgeSchall.com”
In March, we followed Candidate Schall’s directions as we are yours, now. We took her message to heart when she offered to answer voter questions — because surely a judge would not lie. It took much effort as we took the time to ask voters to submit questions; compiled the twenty plus best ones; and sent them to Judge Schall via email on March 13th; and snail mail on March 14th. She never responded, gladly or otherwise.
As such, perhaps you could help the candidate for whom you are encouraging others to vote for Jurist Seat 20, Lisa Schall, by helping to answer the voters’ questions that have thus far gone unanswered. They are below in this email.
But before we get into those, there are four more key questions which deserve answers from Judge Schall and her endorsers within the county’s judicial, government, and law enforcement community:
Question 1:
Your email states that Judge Schall “is endorsed by law enforcement and community leaders”. Do you know why the county’s foremost law enforcement leader, San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, was named as Judge Schall’s #1 endorser on Schall’s website in February, but the endorsement was removed from public view in March?
We think we might know the answer, but no one has confirmed or denied it. You can view Schall’s publicly claimed DA Dumanis endorsement that was later removed from public sight: HERE.
Question 2.
What do Judge Schall and the local jurists know of who put the “pressure” on Clear Channel to destroy $14,000 of campaign advertising of Carla Keehn, on May 9th?
As you know, Keehn is the challenger to Judge Schall’s Seat 20. She’s a cum laude Princeton grad, former military captain, and federal prosecutor with an exemplary track record of many years. Who felt they had the legal right to unilaterally direct the destruction of her campaign advertising?
The billboard company that destroyed Keehn’s advertising, told Keehn on May 9th that “pressure” was put on them to do so. But they would not say pressure coming from whom. One may view the video of ABC News10 attempting to track down Judge Schall, to no avail, to ask her what she knows of who did it to her campaign’s benefit: HERE
It must have been pressure coming from someone pretty big and politically well-connected as the billboard company, Clear Channel, is no Mom and Pop business. It is a national media corporation headquartered in Texas with many political ties in Washington, D.C. It couldn’t have just been Clear Channel, all on their own, who decided to destroy Keehn’s truthful ads. They helped to compose it.
(Speaking of D.C., we think we know the answer for DA Dumanis’ endorsement of Schall, who falsified a judgment document in 2008, going underground. Has to do with “political prostitution” in San Diego County Courts being covered up by DA Dumanis who refuses to prosecute for felonies by jurists and expert defense witnesses of the USDOJ in two county SLAPP suits — coram non judice, after Judge Schall falsified the 2008 judgment.)
Question 3.
Do you know if it is a violation of the Canons of Judicial Ethics for San Diego Superior Court Presiding Judge David Danielson to not send notification to a Complainant of his receipt of a Complaint against his subordinate jurists, Paula Rosenstein, David Rubin, and Lisa Schall for conclusively election tampering on behalf of Schall in February and March of this year? As claimed on Schall’s website, Judge Danielson, like you, is among the “all 125 San Diego Superior Court judges” endorsing Schall’s re-election.
We know that it is a violation of California Rules of the Court for Presiding Judge Danielson to provide no written acknowledgement of complaints he has received.
Court Rule 10.703(f)(3) states, “The presiding judge must give written notice of receipt of the complaint to the complainant.”
Court Rule 10.703(c)(1) states “A court that employs a subordinate judicial officer must use the procedures in this rule for processing complaints against the subordinate judicial officer[s] if the complaint alleges conduct that if alleged against a judge would be within the jurisdiction of the commission under article VI, section 18 of the California Constitution.”
Just wondering what Canons of Judicial Ethics he violated when not acknowledging a receipt of a Complaint that you all’s fellow jurist endorsers of Schall and Schall herself, should be admonished for using this race to bully Keehn’s endorsers not to endorse, while unethically advocating for life-time judicial appointments – not subject to voter ousting. (See more on the subordinate jurists’ ethics violations in the twenty-plus questions below; or read about it in one of the numerous media articles of the matter; such as “Thou Shalt Not Challenge a Sitting Judge”)
In addition to violating Rules of the Court, we’re pretty sure that like his subordinates, Presiding Judge Danielson also violated Canons of Judicial Ethics. Those would be Canons 2, 2B(2), 3C(4), 4A(2) and 5, when he failed to provide written notice to the Complainant of a complaint received. I know he received it, because when I called on April 14th a clerk filling in in Danielson’s office informed me over the phone that the Complaint was in the legal department. I have not heard a word since and obviously, no one has been punished for the judicial ethics violations.
Here’s why we think that this is an additional Judicial Ethics violation when election tampering on behalf of the incumbent judge in the race for Seat 20, via the Rules of the Court violations of Danielson as noted above. What do you think?
Canon 2 states, “A judge shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all of the judge’s activities.
Canon 2B(2) states, “B. Use of the Prestige of Judicial Office (2)A judge shall not lend the prestige of judicial office or use the judicial title in any manner, including any oral or written communication, to advance the pecuniary or personal interests of the judge or others.”
Canon 3C(4) states “A judge with supervisory authority for the judicial performance of other judges shall take reasonable measures to ensure the prompt disposition of matters before them and the proper performance of their other judicial responsibilities.”
Canon 4A(2) states. “Extrajudicial Activities in General. A judge shall conduct all of the judge’s extrajudicial activities so that they do not (2) demean the judicial office.”
And Canon 5 states, “A judge or candidate for judicial office shall not engage in political or campaign activity that is inconsistent with the independence, integrity, or impartiality of the judiciary.” (Judge Danielson is also running for re-election. Unopposed, he’s a shoe-in.)
Question 4:
If you knew that you and your clerk had falsified a judgment document in SLAPP and that your judicial peers covered it up for you coram non judice, while knowing thousands of lives continue to be adversely impacted from your role in fraud upon the court, would you:
A.) move to rectify the continuing damage to the United States public and the whistleblower you framed for libel for exposing scientific fraud while aiding the fraud to continue? or
B.) go on local radio programs while attempting to get re-elected as a judge and state “I learned from my mistakes and I didn’t hide from them“?
The additional 20 plus questions we posed to Judge Schall in March, coming from several voters are restated below. If you could be so kind as to answer the ones you know plus the four new ones stated above, so that voters may be better informed when they go to vote on June 3rd, it would be greatly appreciated.
Perhaps you could even get your endorsee, Judge Lisa Schall, to help you answer them. She is being cc’d on this email. The voters have not been able to obtain the pertinent answers from her. Maybe as her endorser, you will have better luck.
You have my return email address. Like this email, your answers will be posted on Katy’s – assuming of course that you are a man of your word to your “Friends and Voters” with your offer of:
“Please feel free to pass this information on if you find it helpful, and let me know if you have any questions or need any further information”.
In all seriousness, Judge Longstreth, there are many people who are gravely concerned of the increasingly apparent ethics problems in the local courts, local government, and local district attorney’s office. Although you state that Judge Schall “has made decisions based on what she believes is right, not on what is politically popular “; that strongly does not appear to be the case.
People would like to understand why you and all your fellow sitting judges, would endorse Judge Lisa Schall to remain in public office, when she is publicly known to have “the least favorable ethics record” of all jurists in the entire state.
Thank you in advance for your prompt reply. With June 3rd right around the corner and absentee ballots already being cast, you are right. The voters do need to understand why “the makeup of the state trial court bench is so important to the administration of justice” as they get out and vote!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Sharon Noonan Kramer
Electronic copy: Judge Lisa Schall