What is more important for you in a candidate for public office, what is below the waist or what is above the neck?

The question in the heading of this blog is not rhetorical.

In the recent audio interview of the Greene County Supreme Court Justice Lisa M. Fisher, Judge Fisher and her husband openly stated that their "marketing"  (their words, not mine) of Lisa Fisher to the voters, mainly female voters, was on the line that there are not many female judges on the bench.

Well, coincidentally I conducted a statistical survey, just for myself, of New York State judges, obtaining their information from the State judicial directory (information is in open access).  My private survey showed that there are actually not so few women in the judiciary, about 1/3.  It is not that bad, and the number is increasing.

That said, when reviewing qualifications for public office, consideration as to what is below the waist of the candidate for such office should be of no importance to the voters whatsoever.

Yet, Lisa Fisher and her husband, an attorney, and her husband's friends, attorneys, who financed her campaign, put her to the task, and "marketed" her specifically based on her gender, both Lisa Fisher and her husband admitted that much in an after-election audio interview available here (if the podcast is taken off the Internet because of my blogs, contact me at tatiana.neroni@gmail.com, I have a copy, it's a public statement of a public official on a matter of public concern and, thus, a public record).

Lisa Fisher and her husband meant for her message to the voters to be gender based and was meant to stir emotions of gender discrimination in female voters.

Lisa Fisher won by 18,000 votes on her "marketing" Facebook campaign based on her gender.

Yet, her qualifications and her integrity, judging by her "local rules" that she immediately adopted, judging by her rulings that make no sense (I have evidence that I am turning into the Judicial Conduct Commission) and judging by her audio interview where she was happy as a child that she won the judicial seat "beating the odds" by flaunting her gender to the voters, should make voters to start thinking:  what am I voting for, is it a pretty face?  Is it a male/female/transgender/lesbian/gay candidate?

Or is it what above that candidate's neck and what is the candidate's record of integrity?