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Just checked my email - this came in this late this afternoon....

Michael Keegan, People For the American Way
Thursday, April 7, 2011 3:23 PM

Dear xxxxx,

The votes have been counted, and although the results were incredibly close and a recount is likely, it looks like we did it! With historically high turnout -- 1.5 million people for an April election -- Wisconsin voters on Tuesday voted to send Gov. Scott Walker’s staunchest ally on the Wisconsin Supreme Court packing.

As a PFAW supporter, you know better than most that judges matter. Justice David Prosser was a very right-wing state legislator before becoming a very right-wing, pro-corporate judge on the state’s high court. He had made statements indicating that he would be little more than Walker’s proxy on the court, especially when hearing the inevitable legal challenges against Walker’s legislative assault on workers and the middle class.

Of course, corporate cash poured in by the boatload to help Prosser hold his seat -- via expenditures by groups like Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the so-called Citizens for a Strong America (CSA), Wisconsin Club for Growth and the State Tea Party Express.

With the money and the odds stacked against us, this victory of People Power over Corporate Power is a testament to the strength of our new movement to rein in the right-wing and corporate rapaciousness that’s destroying our middle class.

Prosser’s opponent JoAnne Kloppenburg’s victory was a close one -- only a few hundred votes -- and Prosser will likely request a recount. But just a month ago, Prosser was polling way ahead of Kloppenburg. And if this victory stands, it will be only the fifth time a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has been unseated since the court's establishment in 1852.

Your support for People For the American Way helped make a difference in this incredibly close election. We called Wisconsin voters, put up ads and mobilized our Wisconsin members to help turn out the progressive vote.

We’ll take the moment from this win right into the recall fight and, with your continued support, we’ll win those battles too. Just today it was announced that enough recall petitions have been collected to force the recall election of so-far the second Walker-supporting Republican Wisconsin senator. And petition efforts are still under way for other potentially Republican vulnerable senators.

Stay with us in this fight -- not just in Wisconsin but in every state. With the Tea Party-dominated Republican U.S. House majority’s new attacks on Medicare and Medicaid, and their apparent willingness to shut down the U.S. government rather than have their corporate donors and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes, this fight is now truly a national one.

Thank you for all that you do.

Sincerely,
Michael Keegan, President

Had a good laugh just reading this - there must be heads exploding over in lib land.

Looks an awful lot like the one I posted from Moveon.org at #81.

Looks like all the little commie groups followed similar scripts and , all premature.

Gotta love it when it backfires in their faces like this.

Take a look at Mike Moore’s twitter feed....lol...its over cause kloppenberg declared victory and stuff