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Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee addresses questions regarding campaign-related activities that judicial candidate's spouse may engage in. [Added 7/12/10] The Florida Supreme Court's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee addressed a number of questions regarding campaign-related activities that a judicial candidate's spouse may engage in. The Committee's conclusions are summarized below. The judicial candidate’s spouse may be a member of a major political party’s executive committee, subject to the provisions of Canons 7A and 7C and so long as the candidate takes care not to inject partisan politics into the campaign. The judicial candidate’s spouse may speak on behalf of the candidate outside of the political meetings of the political party’s executive committee, subject to the provisions of Canons 7A and 7C and so long as the candidate takes care not to inject partisan politics into the campaign. The judicial candidate’s spouse may host lunches outside of any formal meetings of the political party’s executive committee for the spouse’s friends on the committee and at the same time campaign for the candidate, subject to the provisions of Canons 7A and 7C and so long as the candidate takes care not to inject partisan politics into the campaign. The judicial candidate’s spouse may campaign for the candidate at non-political functions that the candidate and the spouse attend together, subject to the provisions of Canons 7A and 7C and so long as the candidate takes care not to inject partisan politics into the campaign. The the judicial candidate’s spouse may campaign for the candidate at functions that the candidate’s opponent and the candidate attend jointly and are asked to speak, subject to the provisions of Canons 7A and 7C and so long as the candidate takes care not to inject partisan politics into the campaign. Judicial Ethics Advisory Opinion 2010-22 (Election). |
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