Barbara Johnson Poised to Get on Ballot for Governor

By John J. Xenakis
August 2, 2002

Independent gubernatorial candidate Barbara C. Johnson will satisfy the requirements to appear on the ballot this fall, according to campaign consultant Harold Hubschman of Brookline-based SpoonWorks Inc.

"As of Monday, July 29, at 5 pm, Barbara had 11,500 certified signatures," he says. "Barring some last-minute catastrophe, she'll officially qualify to be on the ballot."

The official certification announcement will be made by the state Elections Division next week. Ten thousand certified signatures are required for a candidate for Governor to qualify for the ballot.

Johnson is running on a broad platform including a slate of government reform focusing on individual rights, including:

Equal rights of fathers in custody and visitation actions.
Protection of all parents in cases of false accusations of child abuse and domestic violence, problems with adoption.
Unfair termination of parental
rights.
Judicial corruption.
The ever-present fiscal, social welfare, constitutional and elder issues facing the state.

"The biggest thing is to make judges and court officials accountable to the people," says Johnson. "I've been pointing this out for years, but it took the Enron and WorldCom scandals to point out the importance of accountability to America."

Johnson says most people don't realize that probate court judges regularly make decisions based on their own political agenda, without even bothering to consider the facts. Just as corporate CEOs are finally being forced to account for their actions, we need to do the same for judges, according to her.

"I want to get rid of immunity in the judiciary, so that when they break up families wrongly, the people can sue them," she says.

In response to the criticism that this will make our society even more litigious, she says that just the opposite will happen. She uses the analogy to corporate CEOs. Now that a couple of CEOs are being prosecuted for fraud, all CEOs are becoming a lot more careful.

"All you'll need is one or two cases against these judges, and these people will clean up their act overnight," says Johnson. "Remove their immunity, and that will stop all the nonsense."

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