Photo by Jeff Skrenes that got accidentally downloaded to by computer, blog post by John Hoff. Jill Clark will tell you she's "outstanding in her field." It's bulls***, of course.
Some of us expected this bullshit.
Facing disciplinary action from the Minnesota Lawyers Board of Professional Responsibility, notorious "legal loon" Jill Clark has filed to run for Chief Justice. Word reaches me by email today from a local attorney, who sent a link. Clark is facing off against Dan Griffith and Lorie Skjerven Gildea. Clark filed yesterday.
Clark has run for judge before, once characterizing herself as "brilliant" because other people tell her all the time she is brilliant. Of course, when your clients are thugs sitting in jail filing appeals, a level three sex offender, the "chat line rapist" and the Yzaguirre "Munster" family, by comparison you ARE brilliant.
It is the belief of this blogger that Clark doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell, but will pick up some votes, here and there, from alienated and disaffected individuals. Running for office gives Clark a new opportunity to characterize the disciplinary charges against her as politically motivated when, in fact, she's a walking, squawking cautionary tale for members of the legal profession.
Sometimes publicity is a good thing. Could this be one of those times?
ReplyDeleteWhat are the odd that this will be epic?
Epic?
ReplyDeleteInstead of just a tight circle of people in North Minneapolis caring deeply about her disciplinary proceedings, the whole STATE is going to hear about it. It's the fiery final sinking of the S.S. Clark.
I can't watch. I can't STOP watching.
She might be a crazy attorney, but you'll never be an attorney.
ReplyDeleteI think we have so much common ground in our mutual agreement that she's crazy.
ReplyDeletejohn, wouldn't it better to be "not crazy"?
ReplyDeleteAnd Jill will never be chief justice.
ReplyDeleteGoing to start a new blog, "Jill Clark Runs?"
ReplyDeletehttp://jillclarkforjustice.org/resume/
ReplyDeleteThat's the Campaign website, a "committee" no less, Hartley Clark as campaign treasurer [also saxophone on the CD].
OK, only time I'm printing one of her URLs, and only because that little nugget about the saxophone player is too good to waste.
ReplyDeleteThe CD being referenced is Jill Clark's maudlin (yet fairly skillful) musical CD "Songs For A Recovering Planet."
If only she'd stuck to singing in bars instead of suing decent people on behalf of bats*** crazy plaintiffs, we'd probably all go to some bar, stuff bread in her jar, and say, "Jill, what are YOU doing HERE?"
The graphic on her Web site looks like a Roger Dean painting. Trippy!
ReplyDeleteShe also spelled "persevered" as "presevered."
ReplyDeleteHow does that even HAPPEN if you've got spellcheck?
Of course, spellcheck is only SMART and Jill Clark will tell you, herself, she's BRILLIANT.
http://www.loisconroyforjudge.com/
ReplyDeleteTalk about another wingnut running for judge...this person on paper looks like a good law and order candidate. I looked at the news section of her website and it seems like she has spent all her time fighting crime downtown by geographically restricting criminals from downtown. The problem is she is bragging about the fact that they are now committing crimes elsewhere, like in our neighborhoods. As long as they are not among the rich and powerful people downtown, send them to commit crimes where the poor, middle class and people of color live? Lets send them to her neighborhood to commit crimes.
Thanks for your blog post. Today is primary election day and I was trying to figure out who she was and if I should vote for her. Now I know better and I'll vote for someone else (and not for Dan Griffith either).
ReplyDeletePaul - Minneapolis
Jill Clark is a lunatic. I had pleasantly almost forgotten about her until I saw her on the primary ballot today for judge. My sister wen through a nasty divorce from a narcissistic psychopath and Jill was his attorney along with her feeble, often-companion, Jill Waite. The two of them bullied judges and created so much chaos by coming unprepared, late, filing outlandish things that a simple divorce went to a jury and dragged on and on. She seeks out drama and is the biggest (literally) bully I have ever met. She would be the LAST person who should ever be considered for a judge. She is corrupt & crazy to boot.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was wondering if she'd be on the ballot. Fascinating. I wonder how those vote totals will shake out and what impact it will have on the two other individuals in that race?
ReplyDeleteI know she doesn't like to pay her bills. She'll string a person along that she owes money to. You can file suit, but what a hassel that is. It's not just me. There are a significant number of people she owes money to.
ReplyDeleteAnd those individuals should all file complaints with the Lawyers Board of Professional Responsibility. Maybe they will make her pay her judgments before she gets reinstated or at least string her along long enough that she pays her judgments in the hopeless hope of being reinstated.
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