Canvass Shows Conservative Incumbent Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

Tallies from each of the state’s 72 counties show Justice David Prosser defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by 7,316 votes. State election officials said they will wait to declare an official winner until the deadline for Kloppenburg to seek a recount passes. She has until Wednesday to call for one.

via Canvass Shows Conservative Incumbent Wins Wisconsin Supreme Court Race – FoxNews.com.

I think this is a good thing for Wisconsin. I also hope that Unions and their political partners, the Democrats, will not pursue endless litigation on the matter of so-called collective bargaining “rights”. I say so-called, because I don’t believe that bargaining collectively is a right.

I hope that they can publish this new bargaining law soon and move on with the matter. If the voters are unhappy with it, elect a new crew in the next election cycle. I doubt that this new collective bargaining law will be impossible to rescind or revise.

Three cheers for common sense!

 

Prosser gains 7,500 votes in Waukesha County – JSOnline.mobi

Maybe soon we can return the debate back to where it belongs…the legislative branch where the representatives are closest to the citizens.
http://www.jsonline.mobi/news/statepolitics/119410124.html?ua=android&dc=smart&c=y

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Madison vs. the Rest of Wisconsin – By Christian Schneider

It wasn’t the state’s voters rejecting Walker’s agenda — it was Dane County’s government workers attempting to keep their paychecks intact.

via Madison vs. the Rest of Wisconsin – By Christian Schneider – The Corner – National Review Online.

Elections are elections and all the voters count (except the dead ones), but it is interesting to note that without Dane County, David Prosser would have won with 53% of the vote. There has to be something amiss when some precincts in Madison voted 97% to 3% in favor of the liberal Kloppenburg.

 

Wisconsin High Court Race Could Be Headed for Recount

From Wisconsin:

Unofficial returns from Tuesday’s election showed Justice David Prosser and his opponent, JoAnne Kloppenburg, were separated by fewer than 600 votes with 99 percent of precincts reporting. The contest was close enough that a recount appeared likely.

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Will there be calls of election fraud?

With Prosser currently in the lead, will a recount confirm those results or will Kloppenburg take the lead?

Hugh Hewitt wrote a book a while back called If its not close they can’t cheat. Will it describe this off-election in Wisconsin?

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April Madness: Wisconsin Recall brackets are getting filled in

It appears that the bracket to see who gets the most recalls Wisconsin is just beginning to get filled in. The recalls aren’t official until there are enough signatures collected. The selection results looks to be headed for a tie: Democrats 1, Republicans 1.

The group seeking to recall Sen. Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse) is the only one of 16 recall campaigns against eight Republican and eight Democratic state senators that has filed its signatures with the state.

The head of the campaign to recall Sen. Robert Wirch (D-Pleasant Prairie) says the group has gathered enough signatures to force a recall election.

Via Journal Sentinel Online http://www.jsonline.mobi/blogs/news/119202494.html?ua=android&dc=smart&c=y

Once the bracket is official it will be very interesting to see what happens come game time.

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Controversial Wisconsin Union Law Published Despite Court Order Blocking It

Marty Beil, executive director of the state’s largest public employee union, said he didn’t think the action meant the law was going to take effect.

“The problem is they’re (Republicans) the dictator here so we have to go into a court of law and reaffirm it,” he said. “This is Scott Fitzgerald and Scott Walker’s gulag here. It’s craziness. These guys are off the wall. They’re drunk with some kind of power or misconception of reality.”

Phil Neuenfeldt, president of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, called the action an “illegal backdoor maneuver.”

“This is a dark day for Wisconsin and a travesty to our democracy,” he said.

via Controversial Wisconsin Union Law Published Despite Court Order Blocking It – FoxNews.com.

This is the new and improved tone in American civil discourse?

I find myself in an odd position. What I would really like to see is the end of union power in government. Some of the “talk” on the airwaves has been around whether Republicans can win this fight by playing by the rules. The argument is that the Democrats and unions never play by the rules so how can the Republicans win if they do play by the rules when their opponents do not.

In the end, I would like to see an end to collective bargaining agreements in the government. Whether what’s taking place in Wisconsin is by the rules or not is very important but I hope the result is returning the power back to the voters.

 

Art teachers

“We’re never going to give up,” said Marilyn Rolfsmeyer, 56, who serves as the 300-student Argyle School District’s only art teacher. “What part of it don’t they understand? There’s hope here. I feel it. You feel the energy, the intensity. Somebody’s got to be out there feeling it, too.”

http://www.foxnews.mobi/#r_http%3A//politics.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html%3Fpage%3D23888%26content%3D49346604%26pageNum%3D-1

I have nothing against art teachers (I even like a few of them), but this line from this report struck me as though it were intended to garner sympathy for the ‘poor’ art teacher who had to teach 300 students art all by herself. All of the art teachers (and music teachers and gym teachers) that I know teach at least that many students. It’s their job.

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Wis. Pro-Union Protesters: The Fight’s Not Over Yet

Judy Gump, 45, who teaches English as a Madison high school, also said the fight wasn’t over. She said that if the first person who got arrested during the civil rights movement had given up, the movement would have failed.

“It was illegal,” she said, talking about the vote on the bill. “This is so not the end. This is what makes people more determined and makes them dig in.”

I know, I know…when you’re speaking in the heat of the moment its hard to use proper English.

From:
http://www.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=22995&external=787402.proteus.fma#r_http%3A//www.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html%3Fpage%3D22995%26content%3D49319096%26pageNum%3D-1

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FOX News: Wisconsin Senate Votes to Strip Collective Bargaining Rights From State Workers

This is getting interesting…

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Moore Implores Wisconsin Protesters to Fight Back

I didn’t find Moore’s name mentioned in the article.

Either way, the story continues to intrigue.

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