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Joanne Kloppenburg is running for Wisconsin Supreme Court. She has given the Unions guarantees. And the Unions have pumped big money into her election campaign. As far as I am concerned, she’s a bought and paid for Union lackey. As anyone who has paid any attention at all knows, supporters of Kloppenburg (who has no experience on the bench) have put out a vile, misleading, out-of-context smear ad against Supreme Court Justice David Prosser.
One of the victims has come out strongly against this ad, which victimizes him all over again. Troy Merryfield asked Kloppenburg to call on the ad promoters to pull the ad. Kloppenburg flat-out refused.
Here is Merryfield’s statement (pdf) calling for the ad to be pulled, declaring the stories to be “inaccurate” and “out of context” and stating that he would vote for Prosser if he were a Wisconsin resident.
And here is his own ad, attacking Kloppenburg and her supporters for victimizing him all over again.
Here’s a bit of information the Kloppenburg supporters don’t ever want anyone to know (at least until they buy her a Supreme Court seat):
The sheriff’s department did conduct an investigation, including several interviews, the matter was also brought to a second DA in 1979.
After an investigation, Prosser made the decision not to prosecute. Prosser, while sympathetic to the victims, believed the evidence wasn’t strong enough to convict the accused as it would lead to competing individual testimony between an adult priest and two boys, and that a jury trial would be emotionally challenging for the young victims. Lack of a corroborating eyewitness and what was then believed to be a one-time incident were key contributors to such a decision
In 2002-twenty four years later, when both victims were adults, then DA Vince Biskupic, reopened the case. He went to trial in 2004 with key pieces of evidence that had not been revealed to the sheriff’s investigators and/or Prosser during the initial investigation.
John Nolte has more information on other Wisconsin Democrat and Union scumbaggery.
Other things are happening as well, not all of them good. Obviously timed for maximum effect, former Wisconsin Governor Patrick Lucey — a Democrat — abruptly resigned as honorary co-chair of the Prosser campaign last night and endorsed Kloppenburg. A stunning betrayal … but this is what Democrats do.
The good news is that yesterday, after an unprecedented public scolding from the Department of Justice, the Dane County (Madison) District Attorney’s office finally stopped dragging its feet and charged a Wisconsin teacher for sending vile death threats to GOP lawmakers.
Moreover, the local television media in the state has finally gotten around to covering the outright extortion of local businesses by the unions — coverage that focuses on terrified small business owners intentionally put in an unwinnable situation by these remorseless thugs. In this economy, to say these proprietors are worried a public boycott would be an understatement. The good news is that once word got out, business actually increased as people stopped by to show their support and spend a little money. That includes some rank-and-file union members obviously embarrassed by what’s being done in their name.
If the Wisconsin Democrats and the Unions can get any more low-down scummy, I don’t ever want to see it. Their behavior is so far beyond the pale in pure vileness, I have never seen such a thing in modern American politics.
Sounds like a dirty trick that we get from the right wing extremists all the time. Just tune into Rush Limbaugh or the Fox News opinionators. I don’t approve of these dirty tricks, whoever is doing it.
This Prosser v Kloppenberg race for the WI Supreme Court may be an indicator of the anti-Walker sentiment in the state, and of Palin’s influence as well since she has come out on the Prosser side. How often does it happen that a campaign co-chair, Governor Lucey (’70′s), up and quits a campaign (Posser’s) and gives support to the opponent? Should be interesting to see who wins this race!
A couple of anecdotal incidents can hardly be used to characterize a movement, except by the likes of John Hitchcock who uses this technique all the time on here!
Truth be told, the pro-union protesters have been well-behaved and civil, in spite of the lies and anti-union tactics of Dictator Walker. I base this on daily news reports consistent across the media, discounting those from the right wing media.
According to Rasmussen, Walker’s approval rating stands at 43%. Moreover, he would lose the election if it were rerun today against the same candidate he defeated in November; he would lose 52-47%.
The Wisconsin District Court has put a two month hold on the anti-union law, to allow for investigation of the allegation of an illegal procedure used by the WI Senate. We’ll see where that goes.
Finally, the recall campaign against eight WI Republican Senators is proceeding well, as the required number of citizens has been reached to recall one and is being submitted for authentication of the signatures. Remember, of only three are recalled, that turns the Senate majority to Dem!
By vandalizing government property; calling Walker a dictator, Mubarak, Hitler, etc; threatening to murder Republicans and their families; intimidating people who are trying to get recall signatures on the fleebaggers; tearing up the recall petitions (a felony); extorting businesses. Yeah, that’s well behaved and civil. Idiot.
I’ll note, Idiot hypocrite liar Dictator Perry, that your lack of disapproval of the vile, scuzzball, deceitful pro-Kop ad is a tacit approval of it and any others like it so long as it supports your team. I’ll note further that your extremely weak attempt at tu quoque not only failed to hit its mark but also served to show the duplicitous nature of your soul.
More made up stuff and hyperbole here from The Hitch: Citations please!
You will note that I wrote:
So our chronic CSPT prevaricator has done it once again.
Idiot hypocrite liar Dictator Perry, you can demand citations that have been previously and multiply given till the cows come home and I’ll say the same thing over and over again (if I say anything at all): FSCK YOU and your dishonest BULL SH!T. And quit calling me a liar, you fsckt@rd! And you don’t understand the definition of hyperbole since you’re claiming outright facts to be hyperbole, you fscking India Delta Ten Tango.
Now, go fsck yourself hard.
[...] Liberals and Unions pulled out all the stops to win, including paying big bucks to incessantly run a vile, inflammatory, dishonest ad which the victim of the crime in the ad himself despised (throwing his support behind Prosser), it appears Prosser may well pull it out. But the race is [...]