Thread by @TexasTribune

Amy Clark Meachum is running to be the first woman elected chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court.

Her opponent has called her "selfish" for trying to break barriers for her "own benefit." bit.ly/2tYy6xn

2/ Jerry Zimmerer, an appellate judge in Houston, said his campaign is different because “I actually want the best candidate to win.”

“I may not be the first anything but I’m going to be the best,” he said. (corrected tweet)
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3/ Meachum, a judge in Travis County, said these “sexist comments are straight from the 1950s.”

“If he chooses to disparage a more qualified and experienced judge because of her gender, he’ll find himself on the wrong side of history,” she said.

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4/ Zimmerer said his 14 months as an appellate justice better prepare him for the high court than Meachum’s years on the trial bench.

“She wants to go from being a lowly trial judge all the way up to the top of the pyramid,” he said. (corrected tweet)
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5/ In a state bar poll that gauges Texas attorneys’ support for judicial candidates, Meachum received 1,779 votes to Zimmerer’s 326.

The current Republican incumbent Chief Justice Nathan Hecht won 2,706 votes in the poll.
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6/6 We removed several tweets that misspelled Jerry Zimmerer’s name.