The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission recently filed amended charges against a judge for campaign violations and states that the accused judge has admitted the alleged violations.

One set of allegations involved the anti-abortion views of her opponent

i. “He [your opponent] ordered her to have a forced birth”
ii. “Send Smith back to private practice where his harsh antiabortion views can do less harm.”
iii. “This is the judge who denied a young woman an abortion” and “Again, vote Nancy L. Jacobs for Judge. We need to get this scary man out… Beware Jared Smith.”

And

a. During your campaign, you sent a text message to a citizen stating that your opponent was “a bigot, an anti semite…not a good person…hates me and people like me.”
b. At the same judicial candidate forum, you claimed that attorneys, bailiffs, clerks, and other courthouse personnel had negative feelings about your opponent and would say negative things but were scared to come forward.
c. You claimed your opponent was racist and discriminated against racial or ethnic minorities or other groups of people. For example, you or representatives of your campaign posted on Facebook, “To the comments that Judge Smith is a fair judge, that only applies if litigants look like him or thinks [sic] like him, not if you are a minority.” Yo later stated that you “have information indicating” your comments were “TRUE” (emphasis in original). You admitted to the Investigative Panel that those statements were “a clear error in judgment,” that you did not have factual data to substantiate those claims, they reflected your “opinion and not actual fact.”
d. You or representatives of your campaign wrote on Facebook that voters should “Vote as if: Your skin is not white, your parents are in need of medical care, your spouse is an immigrant… your child is transgender… your sister is a victim of gun violence, your brother is gay.”

Another set of charges allege that she sought the support of Planned Parenthood.

Further

You inappropriately injected partisan politics into the strictly non-partisan judicial campaign. For example:
a. You or representatives of your campaign posted that your opponent “…touts his status as a Deacon for Idlewild Baptist Church… Idlewild is a very politically active church, and a well-known bastion of Republican ideology.” You also wrote that your opponent is “an Amy Comey Barrett [sic] Republican who believes there is no separation between church and state and apparently, he puts his religion above the rule of law.”

Finally

While a sitting judge, during a recess in your courtroom, you discourteously referred to a lawyer appearing before you as a “fat, balding” man. This comment was made in front of courthouse personnel and opposing counsel while the attorney was not present.

Tampa Bay Times had a story about the campaign and ensuing charges

This all started with abortion.

Smith attracted a deluge of criticism after an appeals court overturned a ruling he made which declined permission for a 17-year-old girl to obtain an abortion without her parents’ consent. The written opinion stated that Smith abused his judicial discretion. Unflattering headlines followed. So did criticism from abortion-rights advocates.

In the wake of the abortion controversy, Jacobs, a longtime Tampa attorney, began a run against Smith…

Amid an already tense campaign, a video surfaced showing Smith with his wife, Suzette, at a church event. An evangelical Christian, Smith stood silently as his wife told the group that Jacobs, who is Jewish, “needs Jesus,” and that her “heart is very hard toward God.”

That and other comments spurred accusations of antisemitism. Jacobs beat Smith in the August election, 52% to 48%.

(Mike Frisch)