West Virginia University law professor and Supreme Court candidate Bob Bastress has renewed calls for an independent probe into the relationship between his fellow candidate and Chief Justice Elliott "Spike" Maynard and Massey Energy Co.'s Don Blankenship.
As The Associated Press reports, the move stems from the now-infamous 2006 vacation photos showing the two men together in Monaco.
Bastress "cited several in a series of legal ethics experts from law schools across the country who decried the appearance of impropriety reflected in the photos," AP reports.
“The case is now so notorious, an independent investigation is needed,” Bastress told AP and others at a Capitol press conference. “It’s made West Virginia the object of scorn in some circles.”
The Charleston Gazette and MetroNews also have reports.
Maynard, meanwhile, tells The Intelligencer of Wheeling that he favors the public financing of elections and nonpartisan races for the state's judiciary.
Update: Supreme Court Administrator Steve Canterbury responds to Bastress to AP. Public Broadcasting offers Bastress' letter and audio in its report.
06 March 2008
MonacoGate Remains Issue in Supreme Court Race
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This will only pull votes from Menis Ketchum and Margaret Workman and help Bastress. Bastress, who is a member of the ACLU and supports killing innocent babies, doesn't really have a chance.
The above comment is the ravings of a right wing loon.
That's a good tactic...attack the person posting and not even address the issue.
I am actually one of those conservative pro-life Democrat that you liberals don't like involved in Party politics
It's still the truth. Bastress supports killing innocent babies. Ask him at any candidate forum you see him at in the coming months.
Bastress will find out the majority of West Virginians don't agree with him and send him back to Morgantown to continue brain washing our young lawyers.
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