On November 4, 2008, Johnson County voters will be asked to throw out our current and well-tested selection system where judges are selected based on merit, experience and qualifications and instead install a partisan election system that will turn every judge into just another politician, making promises and taking money like any other politician.

If that's not enough of a reason, how about this: by electing judges, we open up the possibility of having Phill Kline in a position of power. Again.