Christine Donohue

This morning I attended a press conference held by Christine Donohue on the steps of the Carbon County Courthouse in Jim Thorpe.  Ms. Donohue, now a member of the Pennsylvania Superior Court, is a candidate for a seat on the state Supreme Court.  She comes “highly recommended” by the Bar Association.

She was raised in Lansford, where her father was a United Mine Worker and her mother, a member of the ILGWU, worked in a garment factory.  She graduated from Marian Catholic, received a degree from East Stroudsburg University, and attended law school at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.

Ms. Donohue is a dream candidate for Pennsylvania citizens who want a Supreme Court justice who will be honest, fair, and impartial.

Now here is the bad news.  2015 is an off-year election.  That means low turnout.  That means Republicans vote, Democrats don’t.  Judicial elections are low information elections.  That means that millions of Republicans across the state will go in and vote for less than qualified judicial candidates just because they are on the Republican ticket.  That’s the reality Donohue and her supporters must overcome.