COLUMBUS — “With big-spending judicial races a possibility this year, four candidates for the Ohio Supreme Court have taken a clean-campaign pledge proposed by the Ohio State Bar Association….
Signing the pledge were two candidates for chief justice, recently appointed Chief Justice Eric Brown, a Democrat, and Justice Maureen O’Connor, a Republican; and Republican Justice Judith Lanzinger and appellate Judge Mary Jane Trapp, a Democrat, according to a Toledo Blade article. Ohio has seen some of the nation’s most expensive judicial elections.
The “clean campaign agreement,” according to the OSBA [Ohio State Bar Association], asked candidates to take personal responsibility for the content of advertisements or statements that they or their authorized committee’s issue. The pledge also asked candidates to publicly disavow ads from other sources that impugn the integrity of the judicial system or the integrity of a candidate for Supreme Court.” Peter Hardin, GavelGrab.
