Jessica Watson, a prosecutor, is running for office.

With about 5000 ballots having been submitted, her chances of winning seem extremely low. In fact, it’s extremely rare that a write-in candidacy ever wins. But I suspect that April’s comments regarding restorative justice and other issues has the county prosecutors worrying that she might be a “soft-on-crime liberal,” and so they pushed someone in who might cut into April’s support. But it also makes very likely a runoff in November.

Meanwhile, the RHBB article linked above also has this information:

“Looking at the CJP’s process in bringing forward “Formal Proceedings” as with Judge Kreis, it is unusual for a case to move to this phase, because by this point in the review of allegations submitted via complaint forms, over 93% of cases were closed without any disciplinary action in 2022. For example, only 7% of cases assessed that year (91 of 1294) actually moved forward after a review of the complaint/s, while roughly 3% (31) developed into a disciplinary action of some kind according to data provided by the CJP. “