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Sunday, October 04, 2009

Courts - "U.S. attorney vacancy no laughing matter: Lawyer’s cartoons don’t help him"

Andrew Wolfson of the Louisville Courier Journal reports today in a story that begins:

Want to be a U.S. attorney in Kentucky? Then you might not want to draw cartoons making fun of the state's senior U.S. senator.

Marc Murphy, a former commonwealth's attorney who is a freelance cartoonist for The Courier-Journal, says he learned that the hard way.

The newspaper reported in January that Murphy was one of six lawyers who talked to U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, D-3rd District, about getting the appointment as top federal prosecutor in the Western District of Kentucky.

But Murphy, a Democrat, said Yarmuth later told him that when he consulted with Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell about his possible recommendations for the job, McConnell replied: “You're not going to recommend that guy who draws those cartoons of me, are you?”

Murphy said Yarmuth told him that he laughed at McConnell's comment, but McConnell didn't laugh back.

Here is a sample - the story includes several more.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 4, 2009 09:24 AM
Posted to Courts in general