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Male voice: Reelect Governor Peterson. Spot 60 dash seven. Magistrates. New male voice: Since nine out of ten court cases in Delaware first come up before a magistrate, we think you should be vitally

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interested in who the person is who becomes a magistrate. It used to be that the magistrate was simply a political patronage appointee who

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needed no qualifications, whatever. But Governor Peterson change that. He said that he would appoint magistrates only from

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an approved list submitted by a professional bi-partisan steering committee. That's one of those things

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that made a lot of people mad. In this case, the politicians who use the courts for politics. And somehow, you know,

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that only Governor Peterson would have dared to make that kind of move. He did it not to make anybody mad,

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but to make sure you get a fair hearing from a qualified person in case you appear before a magistrate. He did it because that's what's important.

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Re-elect a good Governor. Paid for by the Committee for the Re-election of Governor Peterson.