At the end of an April press conference called by Gov. Edward G. Rendell to discuss why Pennsylvania’s legislators should join the movement to abandon the practice of electing appellate judges, there sat together a collection of words and phrases long used by those championing a change to an appointive process.

“Appearance of impropriety,” “crisis of confidence,” “special interests.”

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