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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/wisconsin-election-recount_n_845565.html
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race between Justice David Prosser and JoAnne Kloppenburg was still too close to call on Wednesday morning. One day after voters took to the polls in the Badger State to decide the match-up, it seemed that a recount vote would be likely to occur.
The Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel reports: As of 10:40 a.m., the Associated Press had results for all but 3 of the state's 3,630 precincts and Kloppenburg had taken a 224 vote lead after Prosser had been ahead most of the night by less than 1,000 votes. That close margin had political insiders from both sides talking about the possibility of a recount, which Wisconsin has avoided in statewide races in recent decades. Any recount could be followed by lawsuits -- litigation that potentially would be decided by the high court. According to the Associated Press, a recall election in the race would have to be requested by no later than April 20. Counties must start to canvas the vote on Thursday and they have until April 15 to turn in the results. Once the county's last report is filed, a recount can be requested within three business days. Prosser's campaign didn't immediately return a message early Wednesday. However, the Journal-Sentinel reported that he told supporters at his election-night party that there was "little doubt" there would be a recount. When the numbers showed her behind, Kloppenburg told supporters she hadn't given up. "We're still hopeful," Kloppenburg said. "So thank you all and let's all get a good night's sleep and see what tomorrow brings." Labor groups and conservative activists turned the match-up into an intense and expensive contest that offered the public their first formal opportunity to weigh in on the national fight over union rights. According to the AP, the race was the most expensive of its kind in state history. The news reports yesterday were that the Prosser people were already high-fiving yesterday, planning a huge victory party. It's probably kind of quiet over there at this time. |
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I just heard on the radio that Prosser's opponent has increased her lead to 254. The interesting part is that the new votes are coming in from conservative rural districts.
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I just heard on the radio that Prosser's opponent has increased her lead to 254. The interesting part is that the new votes are coming in from conservative rural districts. |
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Last news is that the only district yet to be heard from is a rural district that voted for Obama int 2008.
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Edited by
artlo
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Wed 04/06/11 02:24 PM
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The cry-baby conservatives in Wisconsin are fighting back as hard as they can. This article shows us what they are blubbering at the moment.
“I would say the campaign being run against Prosser is absolutely, filthy dirty,” Levi Russell, a spokesman for Tea Party Express, tells Newsmax.
I have already dealt with the issue about the third-party ad in another post.
Russell adds that several of the third-party ads targeting Prosser are “abject lies, just completely false.” Prossers’ supporters are especially angry that Kloppenburg has refused to denounce an ad in which a third-party progressive organization charges that, when Prosser was the Outagamie County district attorney in 1978, he failed to aggressively prosecute a case against a priest who later was convicted of abusing a man who now lives in Virginia. The individual who suffered the abuse, Troy Merryfield, has since come forward to appear in a pro-Prosser ad sponsored by Citizens for a Strong America. In that ad, Merryfield states he is “being victimized again. This time, JoAnne Kloppenburg’s allies want to use our pain for their own gain.” On Sunday, a reporter for National Review Online asked Kloppenburg why she had not disavowed the ad. “Third parties have First Amendment rights to run the ads of their own choosing,” she replied. “I’m not whining about all of the attacks ads that are untrue about me.” Asked to specify which ads she was referring to, Kloppenburg replied, “All of them.” |
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Kloppenburg has a 204 vote lead will 100% of the vote in. There will be an automatic recount according to WI law. And there are some aligations of fraud so we could see WI turn into MN 08.
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Kloppenburg has a 204 vote lead will 100% of the vote in. There will be an automatic recount according to WI law. And there are some aligations of fraud so we could see WI turn into MN 08. |
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Just goes to show the divide in this state. Pretty much fifty-fifty.
The good news is the Republican for Milwaukee county exec, the govs old job, got trounced by the Democratic candidate. |
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Kloppenburg has a 204 vote lead will 100% of the vote in. There will be an automatic recount according to WI law. And there are some aligations of fraud so we could see WI turn into MN 08. Yep just what we need on the court an environmental actvist far left leaning judge. As an attorney for the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Kloppenburg has a history of launching unrelenting attacks on local business owners for what she perceived as environmental hazards. Tony Pipito is out of business after Kloppenburg launched a campaign against his restaurant, Porticello, for being what she perceived as too close to the city of Oconomowoc’s waterfront. Pipito had obtained all the proper paperwork variances from the city and the DNR to allow the building to be within 75 feet of the waterfront before he opened the restaurant, and was shocked when both flipped on him. He said the city caved into the DNR’s agenda-driven litigation campaign because the “liberal left decides they can’t stand up for anything because they can’t go after the liberal left.” “As far as my family, we can’t rebound from something like this because we’re not a huge corporation,” Pipito said. “But, the pressure and the money and the slandering and the fines from the city, because the city knew they weren’t going to fool with the DNR, that’s why we contested it and we won. Not even three months later, the DNR came back to city and said ‘we’re going to go after him again.’” Courts have upheld Pipito’s claims time and again, but legal costs drove him out of business, mostly because Kloppenburg’s DNR kept going after his business. The local government also made several threats against his liquor license, before finally taking it away last summer. Pipito’s claim was upheld again in mid-March, and the city of Oconomowoc will tabulate its litigation costs soon. The city will get reimbursed from the state, but Pipito will still be bankrupt. “Now, in the next couple of weeks, the city will count up all the money they’ve spent on this nonsense,” he said. “They’ll get paid from the state and leave Tony Pipito broke.” |
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Well surprise surprise!!!!!!
One of the most conservative counties in the state has just "found" SEVEN THOUSAND votes for Prosser that "accidentally" didn't get counted. Hanging chads anyone???? |
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Well surprise surprise!!!!!! One of the most conservative counties in the state has just "found" SEVEN THOUSAND votes for Prosser that "accidentally" didn't get counted. Hanging chads anyone???? |
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Well surprise surprise!!!!!! One of the most conservative counties in the state has just "found" SEVEN THOUSAND votes for Prosser that "accidentally" didn't get counted. Hanging chads anyone???? |
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It's hard to know what to say. It's amazing how they keep misplacing those Republican votes.
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Well surprise surprise!!!!!! One of the most conservative counties in the state has just "found" SEVEN THOUSAND votes for Prosser that "accidentally" didn't get counted. Hanging chads anyone???? |
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Where are the Jedi knights when you need them???
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It's hard to know what to say. It's amazing how they keep misplacing those Republican votes. Public employee's should NEVER be involved in a Union. It divides their loyality from the PUBLIC to a union... They are supposed to work for the PUBLIC. |
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They are supposed to work for the PUBLIC. No. they are supposed to be working for a paycheck. Just like everybody else. Why would you think that teachers and other Public Service employees would be doing what they do? Would you expect them to be donating their services for free? That wouldn't seem very Republican to me.
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Edited by
artlo
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Fri 04/08/11 03:03 AM
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so, Prosser has hired this elections consultant, Ben Ginsberg who worked for the Republicans in Bush v Gore. Well, read the article for yourself.
As a key sign of just how much Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser’s corporate supporters are willing to spend to keep him on the bench, Prosser’s campaign just announced its hire of one of the most high-profile election lawyers in the country — Bush v. Gore recount attorney Ben Ginsberg. Ginsberg, who also spearheaded former Sen. Norm Coleman’s (R-MN) unsuccessful legal team in the 2008 Minnesota recount, is not simply known for his key role in two high profile elections. Ginsberg is also a victim of his own unintentional honesty. In a 2006 speech at Duke Law School, Ginsberg made a surprising admission about what the GOP really thinks about voting rights:
A quick note on perhaps the most interesting issue that came up [during Bush v. Gore] as we dealt with it, and that was Equal Protection . … Now, just like really with the Voting Rights Act, Republicans have some fundamental philosophical difficulties with the whole notion of Equal Protection. Watch it: Of course, this view places the GOP at odds with the very text of the Constitution. According to the Fourteenth Amendment, no state may “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Nevertheless, Ginsberg will now bring his cavalier attitude towards the Constitution and voting rights to bear in order to ensure that Justice Prosser is still empowered to decide equal protection and voting rights cases for the many Wisconsin residents who will bring cases before his court. UPDATE In the most bizarre twist in an election filled with bizarre twists, an elections official claims to have found more than 13,000 new votes in a highly Republican county, giving Prosser a more than 7000 vote lead. The official, who is a former GOP staffer, also has a long history of voting irregularities http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/07/prosser-hires-bush-v-gore-recount-lawyer-who-claims-gop-opposes-equal-protection/. http://minnesotaindependent.com/32904/coleman-ginsberg-equal-protection |
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You can stop crying fraud. The votes were not mysteriously found they were cast Tuesday night and just didn't get reported to the AP. Our system in WI has a canvas the next day where the votes are officially counted. The city of Brookfield's votes were not reported Tuesday but were counted in the canvas. That's when the vote count becomes official.
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It's not all bad news. It highlights the reputation that the GOP has developed for itself of deceit and election dishonesty. Things are still going very, very well.
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