Bradley “Brad” Bondi—brother of U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi—was not merely defeated. He was obliterated.
Garnering a paltry 3,490 of almost 38,600 votes, Bondi limped in with barely 9% assist.
In the meantime, Diane Seltzer, an employment lawyer, surged forward with an astonishing over 90% of the vote.
Bondi’s marketing campaign pled for a return to the apolitical professionalism the bar as soon as stood for, promising expanded professional bono companies and coaching.
However these have been drowned out by a wave of woke outrage, weaponized in opposition to him resulting from his familial tie to Pam Bondi and his personal conservative credentials.
The Washington Put up reported:
Each candidates campaigned on guarantees to broaden coaching for attorneys and enhance professional bono work. However some members expressed concern that if Bondi have been elected president of the 121,000-member affiliation, it could open the door for the Trump administration to exert affect over the group and even use it to hold out retaliation in opposition to attorneys and companies deemed by President Donald Trump to be adversaries of his.
“I’m thrilled to have the assist of Bar members whose chief represents and displays the values of the members of the bar to concentrate on working towards regulation, networking and rising with out the worry of retaliation,” stated Seltzer, 57, who has been a member of the D.C. Bar since 1992.
In a Zoom marketing campaign debate final month, Bondi repeatedly pledged that neither his sister nor the Trump administration would have any affect on him if he have been elected. After the outcomes have been introduced Monday, he lashed out at his opponents, saying in a press release, “Their ways, which included smearing me over my household and peddling conspiracies about my intentions, weren’t simply an assault on my integrity however on the D.C. Bar’s very mission.”
In the meantime, former D.C. murder prosecutor Alicia Lengthy, who is also related to the Trump administration, misplaced her bid to turn into the D.C. Bar’s treasurer.
