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Update: Kloppenburg leads by 140
Hotair ^ | April 6,2011 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 04/06/2011 8:21:54 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Update (AP): Good lord. With just 10 precincts still left to report, Kloppenburg now leads by 140 votes — 738,368 to 738,228. Of the 10 remaining precincts, eight are in counties where Kloppenburg currently leads. Gulp.

If you’re holding your breath waiting for the recount to start, exhale now. It’ll be a long, long time coming. Update (AP): Just five precincts to go now and Kloppenburg’s lead has opened to not quite 500 votes.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kloppenburg; prosser; unions; wisconsinshowdown
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To: JPG

Plan B. The Supreme Court rules for the unions. Plan B, MASSIVE LAYOFFS. How will that go down with the rank and file? The legislature still holds the purse strings.


41 posted on 04/06/2011 8:46:49 AM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They should have them ready to go. The ‘Rats want to play it this way, we'll have to do likewise. If Prosser plays the typical Republican loser “nice guy” and trusts the recount or the courts for fair play, they're gonna kick him in the teeth for his trouble. For every “lost” ballot box the ‘Rats “find”, we find two. For every ‘Rat-leaning district they recount and increase their margin by 1%, we re-count a ‘Pub-leaning district and gain 2%. That's the only way this is ever going to change, I'm telling you. If we play the “nice guy loser” role one more time, we're going to get rolled.
42 posted on 04/06/2011 8:48:20 AM PDT by chimera
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To: Hojczyk

wisconsin voters deserve the judges they vote for or allow to be foisted on them

remember, elections can never be close, due to fraud,
to all those who sat this one out

good luck ya’ll


43 posted on 04/06/2011 8:48:48 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: sam_paine

great minds....


44 posted on 04/06/2011 8:49:35 AM PDT by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Hojczyk

Sounds like a recount regardless of which way it ends up.


45 posted on 04/06/2011 8:50:42 AM PDT by K-Stater
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To: mortal19440

Sounds simple enough, re-vote while you have the cowards there.


46 posted on 04/06/2011 8:51:18 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: K-Stater
Sounds like a recount regardless of which way it ends up.

An amusing little notion, but unfortunately not likely to be true.

47 posted on 04/06/2011 8:54:08 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: HenpeckedCon
Arbitration. Continued increases, pensions, healthcare, state vehicles for personal use, workers comp fraud, etc......Will be court ordered thru binding arbitration if local governments(towns/counties/Boards) won't capitulate.

I have a friend who serves on a local school board.

48 posted on 04/06/2011 8:54:24 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: Hojczyk

Looks like this is how it will play out:

A LENGTHY court battle over recounts, which will keep the SC deadlocked and allow the Dane County Bimbo’s injunction to stand, keeping Walker’s changes from happening. This will drag out until Walker has been more than a year in office. Then they can fire up their recall campaign in earnest.


49 posted on 04/06/2011 8:55:05 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Hojczyk

3 precincts left, Klopp by 224.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2011/by_county/WI_Supreme_Court_0405.html?SITE=AP&SECTION=POLITICS


50 posted on 04/06/2011 8:56:23 AM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: US Navy Vet

Screwed indeed, and it is sad.
We are really becoming a nation divided - between those states that are committing fiscal suicide, and those that that still hold on to rationality.


51 posted on 04/06/2011 8:56:50 AM PDT by Malesherbes (Sauve qui peut)
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To: blackdog

done.. over... they always win the close ones. If it ain’t close, they can’t cheat (Hugh Hewitt).


52 posted on 04/06/2011 8:57:19 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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To: Hojczyk

The unions have won, Wisconsin, get over it. Besides, Look at all that the great things they have done for California the last 10 years. We can add you on as another poster boy for Socialism and its ‘success’ stories.

Oh wait. Socialism takes money away from its paying citizens and redistributes it, Conservatism seeks to return it to the community thru more normal channels or leave it there in the first place..


53 posted on 04/06/2011 8:59:19 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: blackdog

Fine, for every dollar the court orders for increases in benefits, deduct the same amount from teacher salaries by laying them off.


54 posted on 04/06/2011 9:00:01 AM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: Hojczyk

I am as frustrated as anyone. But I remain ever the optimist, by choice, because that is the only stance that allows us all to move forward.

These knuckleheads appear to have won a battle — barely — that was very, very heavily stacked in their favor. The long term trends remain very much in favor of conservatives, and the war is moving in our direction.

Politicizing the judiciary has long been a Dem strategy, but in this case it will backfire mightily, especially if an army of Dem lawyers line up for the recount, win (as they surely will), and then JK immediately proceeds to legislate collective bargaining from the bench — as she has promised she would do.

We must all resolve to carry on. This looks like it will be a defeat, but it must be a principled one, and it must lead to a regrouping that pushes the cause forward ... better and more ambitious than ever.


55 posted on 04/06/2011 9:01:51 AM PDT by drellberg
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To: Hojczyk

What did I tell you?

Trunks FULL of Kloppenburg ballots!


56 posted on 04/06/2011 9:03:42 AM PDT by G Larry
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To: mortal19440

You are correct.


57 posted on 04/06/2011 9:06:39 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: HenpeckedCon
The union contracts require the teachers layed off be the last ones hired, who are typically the lowest cost and best performers.

Trust me, I've already argued over five years with him on this stuff. He's taught me just how bad it is.

Laying off the teachers(the ones you can by law) only leaves you with the worst most unmotivated hubris imagineable.

58 posted on 04/06/2011 9:10:00 AM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: sam_paine
If it’s this close, Wisconsin deserves what they get.

If it's s close then Prosser probably won by 10% in a fair election.

59 posted on 04/06/2011 9:10:44 AM PDT by pgkdan ( "Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine / There's always laughter and good red wine / ...Belloc)
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To: drellberg

So, is anyone here convinced that American voters have “had enough” of this Socialist control over America?

Here is a prime example of the strangle hold the Left has on this country.


60 posted on 04/06/2011 9:13:18 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (Patriotic by Proxy! (Cause I'm a nutcase and it's someone Else's' fault!....))
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