The Court of Appeals race, Part VII -- We're making a bit of progress here

The following is part of article by Morris News Service appeared in the Savannah Morning News:

Bernes won heavy support from the state's lawyers because of her 20 years as a prosecutor in Cobb County and her solid legal credentials. Sheffield was the only candidate in the race to answer a questionnaire by the Georgia Chapter of the Christian Coalition in which he agreed with the organization's positions on five controversial court cases. Bernes and Sheffield both campaigned on the hundreds of cases they have represented before the Appeals Court.

On the other hand, Mead has never represented a client before a jury or an appeals court. His career has been more political.

He pumped $1 million of his own money into a statewide television campaign and drew on his connections within the Democratic Party that he gained as an aide to Govs. Zell Miller and Roy Barnes.

Barnes not only contributed heavily to Mead's war chest, but he also defended his former aide against an ethical complaint about those ads filed by 80 lawyers with the Georgia Committee for Ethical Judicial Campaigns.

That unofficial committee concluded that the ads were indeed unethical and violated the state's Code of Judicial Conduct.
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I am pleased to see the word "unofficial" before the comment.

My beef with the prior coverage on this matter, something that I do not fault the press but rather but the source of the pronouncements, was that it was not noted that this is not an official committee of the State Bar of Georgia.

Thus in my Part IV post I observed:

"In this case, had Howard Mead not been so out of line, a group appearing to speak for the Georgia Bar declaring his conduct 'misleading, "improper," 'unethical' and being in 'violation of the Code of Judicial Conduct' could have done irreparable damage.

"As it was, maybe its just a little bit of reeping what you sew."