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Who Elects Judges in Brooklyn? Not the Voters
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Judicial Slate Will Appear Almost All of the Judges in Brooklyn are Picked by Brooklyns Political Machine Bosses. Since Most
On the Following Official Judge Candidates are Unchallenged, They Dont Even Appear on the Ballot
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Tuesday, September 12th
Opposing the Brooklyn Political Bosses Brooklyn Judicial Race
Isiris Isela Isaac
Aims to Break Machine
Countywide Judges NY1 - When election season rolls around,
voters do not usually pay much attention to
(Choose 4) judicial races. But a contested primary in
Thomas Kennedy Vote the Patrick Hayes Brooklyn this year is shaking up the system
Independent 1. a system some critics say illustrates political

Democrats
patronage at its worst.
2.
Slate NYC voters generally have little information
3. Patrick Hayes to go on when it comes to choosing judges,
and often they have no choice at all.
4. That's because candidates are essentially
picked by local Democratic Party leaders like
5. Brooklyn party boss Frank Seddio. The party's
muscle ensures that those without its backing
usually don't bother running at all.

Kennedy
6.
"Most of the people who run for judge in
7.
New York City are not opposed," said a
Sandra Roper Elena Baron 8. Sandra Roper Hayes
Spokesman for Challengers. But this year, a

Isaac Roper
Brooklyn political operative, is trying to buck the
6th District system, putting together a slate of 5 candidates

Baron
9. for civil court judge.

10. Isiris Isela Isaac They have gotten the attention of Seddio,

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who recently sent out a plea for support of the
11. Thomas Kennedy party's candidates, writing, "We face a serious
challenge to their election by a group of

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individuals who have no other interest than
their own personal needs."
Court District 6
Judicial Elections "It is Absolutely
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Lerner of Common Cause NY. Good-government
1.
groups, meanwhile, have long sought to

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2. party to a landmark lawsuit in which Surrogate
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Court Judge Margarita Lopez Torres challenged
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4. Elena Baron
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Patrick Hayes
For Civil Court Judge
Patrick Hayes is a Criminal Court Lawyer
who represents clients in Grand Jury trial and
presentations. Hayes also represents clients in
hearings at Family Court, Department of Motor
Vehicle, & Taxi & Limousine Commission.
Some of his cases have gained notoriety through
media reporting & public interest. Patrick Hayes
serves as Vice Chairperson & Counsel to the
Bronx Community Prison Re-Entry Center.
Patrick is a product of NYCs melting pot. Hayes
Mother, came from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico,
during her late teen years and his fathers family
was of Irish decent. Education: New York Law
School, College of Staten Island, Sheepshead Bay
Sandra Roper
For Civil Court Judge
The Brooklyn Civil Court Candidate With the
Velvet Gloves and Steel Balls Sandra Roper
is the first person of color to run for Brooklyn
District Attorney. DA Hynes in retaliation tried
to disbar her, brought her up on phoney charges
and tried to send her to Rikers Island. Roper
never backed down, charges were dismissed and
she is now the Comeback Judge Candidate of
2017. As a Civil Rights Lawyer for 30 years, she
fought Discrimination, Predatory Lending,
Seniors Social Security Bank Account
Freezes and for affordable housing in her Bed-
Stuy office; and an 1199 Pharmacist for 37
years. Education: LIU, Brooklyn Law and
NYU Law
32 Years After A Report Concluded How the citys
Democratic Machines control who becomes a Civil
Court Judge NOTHING HAS CHANGED
Published by Modern Courts, found that Democrats won 83 of 85
elections for Civil Court judgeships in the city in the last
the NYTimes
Voter June 9, 1986
five years, and only four elections during that time could
be termed serious contests with Republicans. The 108-
A 1986 REPORT by page report, which analyzed the elections borough by
Brooklyn
the Fund for the borough, called the Democratic primary the ''real contest.''
Modern Courts that The Report found that in only 24 of 85 elections
issued a report on where Democratic primaries were held, resulting in no
how the citys real choice for voters in more than 70 percent of the elections.
Democratic machines
New York Bernie Sanders
control who gets
Committee for Change
elected as CIVIL
COURT JUDGES
The election process for Civil Court judges in New York Endorses Independent Democrats
City amounts to little more than the appointment of Thomas Kennedy, Sandra Roper,Isiris Isaac,
judges by powerful county Democratic leaders, Patrick Hayes and Elena Baron all running for
according to a report to be released today by a nonpartisan Civil Court Judge in the September 12th
court-monitoring group. The organization, the Fund for Democratic primary. - Brooklyn Eagle
Insurgents Campaigns Aim to Shake Up
Brooklyn Judicial Races
Despite their outsize importance in the lives of party machines throughout the city is trying to
anyone who comes into contact with our sprawling change that. Angry that the Brooklyn Democratic
and Orwellian criminal justice system, elections for Partys handpicked candidates for civil court
judges in New York City are sleepy affairs. Incumbent judge appeared to be coasting to victory without any
judges seeking re-election rarely face primaries. challenges at all, gathered together a slate of five judicial
Candidates backed by the local Democratic Party candidates who will face down the partys chosen
are almost always assured victory. One veteran contenders in a Democratic primary this September.
Democratic operative and gadfly long opposed to - Village Voice
Developers Invited to
Illegal Machine Bklyn
Judicial Fund Raiser
Recently a prominent NYC medium exposed
the fact that the head of the Democrats in
Brooklyn (Frank Seddio) is looking to hold
an illegal fundraiser for the judicial team the
countys political bosses support. This is against
the rules surrounding judicial candidacies and
their financing; but it has happened so many
times before that it is now commonplace and
Elena Baron
openly done. What is striking about the
judicial invitation list for that event, were the
names of the various prominent lawyers and
For Civil Court Judge real estate developers, being solicited. Invitees
were being asked to pay thousands of dollars
(6th District) to support judicial candidates. Do you really
think they make these contributions without
Elena Baron spent close to a decade assisting some kind of future expectation in mind?
sitting Judges in Civil and Supreme Courts Facebook: Rockroomeight
with cases involving residential and commercial
Vote on Tuesday, Sept. 12th for
foreclosures, landlord-tenant matters, credit card debt,
guardianship matters, small claims and personal
injury cases among others. Elena is a volunteer
Mediator and Arbitrator in the Small Claims All 5 Independent Democrats
Court in Brooklyn for over 8 years. Education: Running Against the Political
Brooklyn Law School, New York University Brooklyn Political Bosses
Slate of Independent Democrats Pushes Back
Against County Club in Brooklyns Judicial Race
A group of independent Democrats have
created agita in Brooklyns Democratic political
establishment by announcing they are running
for civil judgeships without the blessing of
the Kings County Democratic Party.
Isiris Isela Isaac, Sandra Roper, Thomas J.
Kennedy and Patrick J. Hayes make up the
slate. Thomas J. Kennedy is an attorney at Glancy
Prongay & Murray LLP. Patrick Hayes is founding
member of the Law Office of Patrick Hayes. He
was formerly an assistant DA in Kings County.
Isiris Isela Isaac is the principal court attorney for
the state Supreme Court in Brooklyn. Sandra
Roper is senior attorney in her own firm.
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Community Activist Tony Herbert Says Dont Let
the Political Bosses Control Who Gets Elected to
Bklyn Judgeship . . . Vote the Independent Slate
Hayes
Herbert
Isaac
Borough Dems Chief Involved in 'Illegal'
Fund-Raiser for His Judicial Candidates
A rep for five of the 11 candidates vying for six
Bklyn civil court judgeships, sent a letter Monday
to the state and NYCcity elections boards, as well
as to the Judicial Campaign Ethics Center with the
Office of Court Administration, saying borough
Dems chief Frank Seddio is hosting an illegal
fund-raiser on Aug. 23 at a law office in Downtown
Brooklyn. A three-page letter to the committees
Brooklyns Political Bosses
Pick Judicial Candidates . . .
Our Reform Slate Was
Created to Give Brooklyns
Voters a Choice of
Independent Democratic
Thomas Kennedy
Judges at the Ballot Box
For Civil Court Judge
Thomas Kennedy Has 21 Years of Experience As
A Lawyer. Which Includes Representing Senior
Citizens who Suffered Life-Threatening Side
Effects of Medications which were Not Listed
on the Warning Label; Victims of Stock Fraud by
Corporations; Victims of Consumer Fraud;
and Victims of Antitrust Violations by Monopolies.
Kennedy passed the CPA Exam which helps in
understanding complex financial litigation
involving corporate fraud. Education: St.
Johns School of Law, Miami University
Kennedy
Roper
Baron
Isiris Isela Isaac
For Civil Court Judge
Isiris Isela Isaac has dedicated her legal career
to public service. Isaac is a Principal Court
Attorney to a Supreme Court Justice presiding
over felony cases. Ms. Isaac worked as a
Staff Attorney for District Council 37, representing
low-wage union members and retirees on the
said Seddios fund-raising efforts violate the
Rules Governing Judicial Conduct and are unethical brink of eviction. Ms. Isaac has been an advocate
for New Yorkers in need. She is a legal authority
on seven points, including not disclosing who the
event benefits, inviting sitting judges to contribute and, on affordable housing, public benefits and worked
since the beneficiaries aren't named, having judicial on immigration cases on behalf of people living with
candidates raising money with potential nonjudicial HIV/AIDS. Education: Rutgers Law School,
candidates. Columbia University, Clara Barton H.S.
- Daily News