Republicans cross-endorsed Democrat Norman St. George for county judge last night, while Democrats are endorsing Republican Angelo Delligatti for district court judge. This is the first break in Republican's ban against cross-endorsement since 1984, when Mondello took over as GOP chairman.
County Independence Party Chairman Bobby Kumar said St. George is carrying all five standing party lines. Kumar told Celeste Hadrick earlier today: “I took the case to (GOP Chairman) Joe Mondello and (Democratic Chairman) Jay Jacobs. I said, why don’t we do the right thing by the judges. Good judges should be reappointed and we should not put them through a process...I’m so honored that Jay accepted my proposal and I was very very humbly surprised that Joe said, 'I have no problem in doing the right thing by the right judges'.
"It impressed me -- there was no quid pro quo,” Kumar said.
Tony Santino, Mondello's spokesman, further emphasized there was no quid-pro-quo.
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