Kelsey's controversialness

In a fundraising email this evening, the Tennessee Democratic Party goes after "the very right-wing and controversial politician Brian Kelsey" (that's right, very right-wing) because, among other things he

• supported politicizing the judicial selection process by electing judges to their positions, from the state supreme court down to the local judge. Many say that our current system of selecting judges by way of a judicial selection commission, which chooses the slate of candidates from which governors appoint new judges, is the most professional and least politicized process in the region.

Well, Kelsey is in good company on this point: a majority of Tennesseans agree that leaving the selection of judges to an unaccountable commission of special-interest lawyers was a bad idea.