After our extensive coverage of the city Republican's quest to endorse a candidate to run for the city full-time Judge, you might have thought that we'd forgotten that there are two political parties in this city.

City Democrats will meet Saturday to pick their guy, either long-time city resident and former city Attorney Jeffery Wait or an State Court Attorney, James A. Montagnino. Look for my story about these two candidates in tomorrow's paper.

One interesting side note to the story is that both of the Dems said they would not have wanted to run against the current part-time City Court Judge, James Doern, who was passed over by city GOP committee members, in favor of Matt Dorsey, a politically connected candidate with vast law experience, but no judicial experience.

Both of the Dems said they thought Doern's position on the bench, which precluded him from participating in any political parties for the past ten years, might have been his downfall.

Interestingly enough, we could see almost the same situation with the two Democrats. As an attorney for the state unified court system, Montagnino has not been active in politics, while Wait has been highly involved. Only time will tell which of the two will emerge on top, but in the mean time we can hope that there won't be any accusations of foul play for this party. The last thing city Democrats need is more infighting.