"Special" v. "Controlling" Interest

Ken Marrero, the Blue Collar Muse, has a splendid essay up today ("Special Interests in the Judicial Selection Process") pointing out the foolishness of claiming that commission-based selection of judges (e.g., "The Tennessee Plan") removes special interests from the process of picking judges. Ken writes:

We don’t need Commissions telling us which candidates are the best. The candidates themselves can do that. We don’t need Commissions deciding which judges should be considered for a vote. The candidates can do that, too. We don’t need Commissions dominated by Special Interests to make choices for us. Let’s get rid of The Tennessee Plan. We know our own interests far better than they do and we can be moved by our own Special Interests when we make our own choices - on election day.