Gee, You Mean That the Name “Bondi” Doesn’t Get Lawyer Votes?

I never thought that I would be writing about elections at the Washington, DC Bar, but the fact that Attorney General Pam Bondi's was trounced in his run for Bar president in an election that about 5x the normal turnout.

Same happened for Alicia Long, who ran for Bar treasurer, who is best known as being the evil minion of former nominee for DC US Attorney Ed Martin

Martin, if you are unfamiliar with him, threatened members of Congress, law firms, Wikipedia,  The New England Journal of Medicine, and retaliated against lawyers in the DC US Attorney's office, and admitted that his pardon recommendations were explicitly partisan.

Lawyers casting a secret ballot did not approve of these mooks:

Brad Bondi, the brother of Attorney General Pam Bondi, overwhelmingly lost his bid to lead the D.C. Bar Association in a race with record turnout, the organization announced Monday.

Bondi, who is global co-chair of the law firm Paul Hastings’s investigations and white-collar defense practice, earned just 3,490 votes, or 9.1 percent, in the D.C. Bar’s presidential election. His opponent, employment lawyer Diane Seltzer, won 34,982 votes, or 90.9 percent.

More than 10:1.  Sweet.

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The D.C. Bar is the largest unified bar in the country, with roughly 121,000 members. As concern about his effort to lead the group mounted, Bondi vowed to ensure the group would remain nonpartisan. 

In the past, Bondi represented billionaire Elon Musk and Tesla, the Trump Media & Technology Group and a group linked to YouTuber MrBeast in its bid to purchase TikTok. 

Bondi is now publicly rending his clothes, claiming that "Rabid partisans lurched this election into the political gutter."

That doesn't sound like someone who was committed to nonpartisan fairness.

And then there was  

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Alicia Long, a top deputy to interim U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, also lost her bid for treasurer, earning 8,854 votes, or 25.1 percent of ballots cast. Cybersecurity lawyer Amanda Molina won that race with 26,380 votes, or 74.9 percent.

D.C. Bar CEO Robert Spagnoletti said on a press call Monday afternoon that the election saw record engagement from D.C. Bar members.

Over the past 50 years, the average number of ballots cast in an election was 7,444. This year, some 38,646 votes were cast in the race, or 43.26 percent of all eligible voters, he said.

Guess what, they hate you.  Both of you.

I approve.