Judicial candidate (R) defends partisan mailer, adopts mom's maiden name for campaign
Madilyn “Leavitt” Cole, a prosecutor in the Clark County District Attorney’s office, is defending her decision to use a political endorsement on a campaign mailer, despite a prohibition on judges and judicial candidates seeking, accepting, or using endorsements from a political organization in campaign materials.
Cole, who received her undergraduate and law degrees at Brigham Young University, served as a law clerk in 2017, and joined the District Attorney’s office in 2018. She is seeking to oust Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Cynthia Dustin-Cruz from the seat she’s held since 2012. Dustin-Cruz attended UNLV and earned her Juris Doctorate from Boyd School of Law.....
The mailer, which features a photo of Cole, her husband, and baby, includes an endorsement from the Nevada Republican Club Action PAC (NRC PAC).
Cole, who declined to be interviewed, said in an emailed statement to the Current the mailer-related complaints filed by Veterans in Politics with the Nevada Judicial Discipline Commission and the Nevada Bar Association, are “frivolous and without merit.”
“The endorsement referenced is not a political organization as defined in the Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct Canon 4, as its principal purpose is not to further the election or appointment of candidates for political office,” Cole said in an email.
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