SACRAMENTO — The primary election ended a week ago, but hard feelings remain in Yolo County, where local jurists say the Alliance of California Judges went too far in its endorsement of a judicial candidate who ultimately lost.
Yolo County Superior Court Commissioner Janene Beronio, backed by all 10 judges on the local bench, won the race for the open seat handily, besting a field of three other candidates with 53.5 percent of the vote, enough to avoid a November runoff. One of those other candidates was John-Paul “John” Brennan, a West Sacramento defense attorney whose campaign consultant was Dave Gilliard, the husband of Alliance director Maryanne Gilliard, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge.
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