Brad Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, has lost his bid to lead Washington’s attorney bar association after an unusually closely-watched election that drew record turnout from the U.S. capital’s 120,000 lawyers.
Bondi, a partner and co-chair of the investigations and white-collar defense practice at law firm Paul Hastings, lost the race to serve as bar president to Diane Seltzer, an employment law attorney at The Seltzer Law Firm.
D.C. Bar CEO Robert Spagnoletti announced the results on Monday after a race which the group said drew a record 38,600 ballots, up from 7,500 in the last election. Seltzer secured more than 90 percent of the vote, Spagnoletti said.
I really hope Legal Eagle and his videos on the subject were the big change in turnout. However, if he had to promote the message in order to get the voters out, that doesn’t seem great either.
Yeah I don’t really see the problem with professionals having a platform with which they can reach a wide audience while avoiding the need for corporate or gubernatorial oversight to monetarily filter their scripts/opinions/programming.