Founding Partner, Shelly A. Sanford Displays Her Election Credentails

Founding Partner, Shelly Sanford, is in Cleveland, Ohio, at a polling station in the heart of “Obama Country.”  She has been working with the Ohio Voter Protection Team for several days now. As the morning progresses, Shelly has noted that there are many first-time voters, and this makes the day all the more exciting.  

      No Republican candidate has ever won the White House without winning Ohio.   Nonetheless, many states remain at play in this election, with record numbers of early voters pointing to heavy voter-day traffic at polls across the nation.  The polls are already closed in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, where for the first time since 1968, the town has voted for a democrat . . . doing so overwhelmingly.  

World Interest is Evident as a Canadian News Crew Interviews an Ohio Voter

With a new administration coming, regardless of the outcome of today’s election, Shelly, Chris and Tony, attorneys at Sanford Pinedo LLP, joined with other attorneys across the nation in the Tuesday Morning Believer’s Caucus, to pray that God would direct this nation.

The Democrats have is right on this issue.  But Obama’s record is mixed.  On Fox News in April, 2008:

WALLACE: Some of your detractors say that you are a paint by the numbers liberal and I’d like to explore this with you. . . . As a president, can you name a hot button issue where you would be willing to cross the Democratic party line and say you know what, Republicans have a better idea here. . . .

OBAMA: . . . I would point out, though, for example, that when I voted for a tort reform measure that was fiercely opposed by the trial lawyers, I got attacked pretty hard from the left.

What Obama was referring to was a vote in 2005, where he voted for CAFA, the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (the act was set to move most class action lawsuits, including civil rights, worker protection, product liability, and consumer fraud cases from state courts into the federal court system). Many of the more well-known democrats voted against it, including Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, Pat Leahy, Joe Biden, Barbara Boxer, and Harry Reid. The Act was supported primarily by Republicans, including Trent Lott, Lindsay Graham, and Jeff Sessions.  (To be fair, Democrats Joe Lieberman and Diane Feinstein also voted for it.)

Nonetheless, Bill Baxter of The American Lawyer sees Obama as Plaintiff friendly, telling the story of the residents of the Ecuadorian Amazon basin who are holding out for an Obama victory in their fight against Chevron.  Chevron has brought on Trent Lott and even a John McCain aid to further curtail lawsuits against big multinational corporations.  The hope is that an Obama administration will be more favorable to plaintiffs.  This could not be more true.  Obama might not be John Edwards, but he certainly is no George W. Bush.   On this issue, Change is Good!