WEDNESDAY HOT READ: THREE RECOUNT MYTHS (Kloppenburg-Prosser-Wisconsin)

AM620 WTMJ NewsRadio Milwaukee ^ | 4-27-2011 | Charlie Sykes/Club for Growth

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WEDNESDAY HOT READ: THREE RECOUNT MYTHS

By Charlie Sykes

Story Created: Apr 27, 2011

Story Updated: Apr 27, 2011

 What's the real agenda of the Kloppenburg recount. Club for Growth has some ideas: 

Fed up with a smarmy campaign that won’t go away, many people with conservative inclinations may misperceive current efforts to put JoAnne Kloppenburg on the state Supreme Court.

1. Misperception: The recount proves they’re stupid. The Kloppenburg campaign might be called stupid if they expect victory in an honest recount. We don't believe that’s what they expect at all. Their hope to invent reasons to disqualify thousands of votes certified by the official canvass; to invent reasons why Kloppenburg should be awarded thousands of phantom votes no one’s heard of yet; and to get in front of a judge willing to buy their arguments. Since a Dane County judge will likely decide, expecting this to work may not be stupid at all.

2. Misperception: The recount is a waste of time. Not if the purpose of the recount is to buy time. The meaningful action won’t be the counting. It will be court proceedings disputing the validity of individual groups of ballots as Kloppenburg’s allies run the clock past the Supreme Court’s summer recess. Assuming the Court eventually reviews challenges to the new collective bargaining law, recount litigation practically guarantees it won’t happen before the new term begins in August.

3. Misperception: They can’t possibly win. It depends on what they’re trying to win. With the legal team that made Al Franken a U.S. Senator, partisan judges and a media eager to sabotage conservatives, a stolen election is not inconceivable. But simply prolonging chaos advances the far bigger goal of ending Supreme Court elections altogether. There won’t be another until 2013 and the media are hard at work discrediting the concept. Only continued Republican legislative majorities can block a constitutional amendment handing the choice of our judges to unelected panels of liberal lawyers.

Things aren’t always what they seem.

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The mask comes off

By stalling the final result of a statewide recount in the recent Supreme Court race, what the Liberal Left is really fishing for is a Supreme Court deadlocked 3-3 over legal challenges to changes in collective bargaining, with Justice Prosser playing no role.

The effect would be that the lower court’s decision stands, the transparently partisan District IV Court of Appeals having already ducked issuing a proper ruling by declining to hear the case.

Within the Supreme Court itself, there’s ample opportunity for the liberal wing to delay. It’s true that any four justices can petition to hear a case and the case would then be heard. But first, four Justices have to be willing to take that step. And once they’ve petitioned, it’s up to Liberal Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson to schedule the case and her scheduling cannot be appealed.

Last week, former Dane County Executive Jonathan Barry said Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi’s presumption of authority to block the legislation is “so egregiously wrong on the face of it that one has to conclude it’s political.”

A prominent member of the Assembly in the 1980’s, when Wisconsin’s Open Meetings Law was revised, Barry noted there has been no violation because the Legislature created the exemptions that allow it to operate precisely as it did last month.

For the handful of people who believed JoAnne Kloppenburg actually intended to deliver impartial judgment, the mask is off once and for all. 

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Klop Kaper Ping

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Only continued Republican legislative majorities can block a constitutional amendment handing the choice of our judges to unelected panels of liberal lawyers.

What is he talking about? Legislatures have been rendered irrelevant when opposing a judicial tyranny of one. Even laws NOT YET ENACTED are not immune from edicts of the unanswerable ones.

We are attacking the wrong target to fix this. The Judiciary needs to be reformed, and all else will fix itself.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pWBJiW0Xpo

[rockinqsranch]

bflr

[smoothsailing]

LOL, thanks for the link! The “Clean Copper Clapper Caper”!

[rcrngroup]

Well this is kind of discouraging. How is the recount going so far? I assume the Repubs have equal representation to oversee the recounts? Are there any changes in the numbers so far?

I think that Gov Scott Walker & the Repubs need to get the lead out and start ramming every piece of conservative legislation through-- Voter ID, elimination of same day voter registration, Conceal & Carry, etc. It seems like the Repubs are allowing the demoRATs to set the agenda & the pace or lack thereof.

[W. W. SMITH]

When in the course of human events it becomes impossible to obtain justice from the courts or our elected officials then the people must assume the duties and take action. If this judicial election ends with a finding for Kloppenburg then all those complicit in the fraud, lawyers, judges, union members, ect should be gathered at one place by a very large number of the people and very publicly hung.

[Mike Darancette]

The WI Senate should pass a bill eliminating public sector unions; then make the Unions an offer they can’t refuse re the law suit.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks smoothsailing.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Wisconsin Politics Ping List Ping!

[Hamilcar_Barca]

I’ve already heard about fraud attempts already in Dane County. Alleged stacks of 25 Kloppenburg votes actually had around 18. They need more recount watchers. There were 20+ Democrats and maybe 6 Republicans there today. Every table has to be watched.

[Jean S]

They have until May 9 to complete the recount but already Milwaukee is saying they will need more time. A Dane county judge will give it to them.

A Dane county judge will also hear all lawsuits regarding every little nitpicky challenge. I think they will be able to drag this well past Aug. 1.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Please do not post pictures of this grotesque b!tch. I’d rather french-kiss an electric eel.

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I think they will be able to drag this well past Aug. 1.

Jean, am I reading this right, is a candidate only allowed one judicial appeal, or can they file more than one? Oh, and look who gets to appoint the judge who hears the appeal! This could be a long summer...

•The recount, which was ordered to begin today at 9 am, is supposed to be done by 5 pm 5/9/2011 by state law. Once the recount is done, either candidate will have 5 business days to file a judicial appeal, which will first be heard by a reserve (retired/defeated for re-election) judge appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, with any appeal going to the Madison-based 4th District Court of Appeals. If neither candidate appeals, the GAB, after a canvass of the results, will declare a winner."

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2011/04/27/wisconsin-supreme-court-recount-day-1/

[Jean S]

I believe that they can file an unlimited amount of court challenges on vote counts, per counties, even per batches of votes per county. They can and will drag this out until after August 1 so Prosser cannot be seated.

[Logic n' Reason]

As of Thursday, April 28th...La Crosse County has completed the SSC recount. Results:
Clopp-en-berg = -2;
Justice David Prosser = +2

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Thanks! That’s nice news to start my freeping day with! :)