11.   Gov. George W. Bush favors electing judges.

12.   He promised to work full time in Austin if elected presiding judge.

13.   In Texas, judges are elected.

14.   In most states, juries impose death sentences, and in the few states where judges do, the judges are usually elected.

15.   In New York most trial judges are elected, while top appellate judges are appointed by the governor.

16.   In some, like Texas, judges are elected and re-elected on a party basis.

17.   Most states elect judges to at least some courts.

18.   No state judge in Miami, where judges are elected, is going to send Elian back to Cuba.

19.   New York is one of the many states that elects judges in courts of original jurisdiction.

20.   That gives the new governor and Legislature time to formulate fundamental changes in the deeply flawed process by which judges are elected throughout the state.