California Judge Routes Campaign Robocalls Through Colorado

Thomas Hawk writes "Victoria Kolakowski, a current sitting law judge at the California PUC, is running for Alameda Superior Court judge in California. As part of her campaign she is robodialing people in California with a pre-recorded message. The only problem is that in Califorina robodials are actually illegal unless first introduced by a non-recorded natural person who gains consent to play the call. Ironically, the agency set up to protect our privacy and enforce this law, the California PUC, is the very agency where Kolakowski works today. Kolakowski originally apologized for the calls but then later deleted messages on her Facebook account from people objecting to her use of these calls. Now Kolakowski is trying to argue that because 'technically' she is routing her calls through Colorado from outside the state that her robodials are actually legal."

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I seriously doubt that you get appointed a judge someplace, supreme or not, without you already being a bought and paid for party shill of one political gang or the other. You aren't even considered for the nomination unless you have been compromised.

In other words, I ain't buying that independent bit. They are bought off or black-mailable, or both. The system is rotten and corrupt, from the top down, from the bottom up, and sideways in every direction. Appointed for life is a nice theory to try and control corruption, I just don't think it works in real life, they get corrupted well before this appointment/nomination/confirmation.

And that is how it "appears" to me after watching politics fairly closely for around 4.5 decades now.