"Darling [at left], 67, is a 21-year veteran lawmaker from River Hills..."
No way she's 67. If so, she's been a cryogenics guinea pig for 20-30 years.
Posted on 08/10/2011 7:42:20 AM PDT by milwguy
State Sen. Alberta Darling, the highest-ranking Republican facing recall, hung onto her job in Tuesday's recall election by defeating Democratic challenger Sandy Pasch and helping thwart Democrats' bid to wrest control of the state Senate.
Darling claimed victory near midnight, as unofficial results showed her surging ahead. Pasch conceded early Wednesday in a phone call to Darling.
"I was willing to put my future in politics on the line as an elected official to do what was right," Darling said of her role in pushing Gov. Scott Walker's conservative agenda. "Clearly the unions tried to take me out, and they didn't," Darling told WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) from her election night party in Thiensville.
Pasch went home for the night, leaving the party with her supporters in Brown Deer without further discussing the evening's results, according to Dave Kreisman, a member of her campaign staff.
"We're waiting to see what comes out of Waukesha tomorrow," to see if there are any irregularities in counting the votes, Kreisman said.
He said the campaign attorneys would look into the returns from Waukesha County on Wednesday.
Darling, 67, is a 21-year veteran lawmaker from River Hills and co-chairwoman of the influential Joint Finance Committee, where she played a key role in shepherding Walker's budget and public employee bargaining restrictions through the Legislature. She steadfastly defended that work in a race that attracted gobs of attention and money from outside groups and overall spending on a pace to exceed a record-breaking $9 million.
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I would say out of the $10 mil or so spent, at least $6 million was spent by the unions. Sandy Pasch got 34,096 votes, which equates to the unions spending $175 or so PER VOTE.
The best thing about this election was that this district includes part of Milwaukee County (liberal north shore suburbs, and parts of the City of Milwaukee), parts of Waukesha County, Ozaukee County, and Washington County. The parts of the three conservative counties turned out over 1,000 voters per precinct, while the liberal Milwaukee County precincts turned out less than 750 voters per precinct.
Thus while Milwaukee County went 65-35 Pasch and the conservative counties went 66-34 for Darling, the vaunted PAID union turnout effort was an epic failure compared to the Republican VOLUNTEER grass roots effort to keep Darling in office.
The implications for Obama in Wisconsin are huge. He had his Illinois flunkies from Orgainizing for America here in mass and the voters turned their backs on them.
The lesson here is cheeseheads don't want flatlanders telling them how to vote. A great day to be a cheesehead!
Thank you for that analysis. It restores my faith in the American people and the political process. Such a sweet victory to see the unions couldn’t win this battle even with all of the money they poured in and the outsiders!
Thanks for the great comments..One question...have you seen any reports of complaints, irregularities at the polls..people having to cast provisional ballots because of bad ID..
I am impressed.....& I'm a Texan.
Congratulations & salute.
Good news for this courageous woman. Now the GOP in WI ought to double down in trying to recall the two Democrats,who fled the state instead of staying for the budget vote,in their recall election next week. Give these Leftists no quarter. If they lose these two seats, it would teach them a lesson about calling recall elections any time they get opposition to their Leftist agenda.
Now if the stupid Republicans in Washington would learn this valuable lesson, this country could be saved.
The Democrats tried to raise the issue of irregularities last night with their favorite bogeywoman, the Clerk in Waukesha County. Last night they went on TV claiming fraud, but by this morning they are retracting their claims and admitting an epic defeat in the one race they spent the most money, time, and effort in.
All their money and help from the unions to turn out the vote still had turnout in their areas 25% less than in staunchly conservative areas.
I do not live in Darlings district, but the new redistricting map will put me in her district in 2012. With the redrawing of the lines, her seat will be very safe in the future as parts of Milwaukee County are replaced by parts of Ozaukee County.
On Wisconsin!
Being Illinois born, yet growing up in Wisconsin, WI is my adopted state. We live 30 miles south of Rockford, where my wife works. She said this morning, we should move over the state line and live in a free state.
Good post. I personally liked seeing the pro Fred Clark sticker and Union sticker on the car in Luther Olsen’s district. Trouble is, the car had a NY license plate.
Bye, bye Organizing America. The Union blew tens of millions (10-20 million) and the source to replenish their coffers in WI is now gone!
Bwahahahaha.....
I predict the Republicans will win at least one of the two Democrat seats in next weeks elections. The Democrats are totally deflated and the Republicans energized. Turnout will be key again, but it is possible the unions may scale back their efforts and cash in the last week of there tow races as they have lost already.
Some teacher was crying the blues to Ed Schultz about funding being cut and Schultz was implying that mmore funding would be cut if they lost this election. I have no idea where he figured the money would come from if they won. The money simply isn’t there.
We need to ask ourselves if we can make $20 an hour and pay for union state workers to make $30 and hour. Why should we build a road with union workers and we have to do our own repairs because we can't afford to hire someone. I discovered home schooling cost me about $2k a year and my school district was getting $11k a student. Government jobs have gotten a reputation for a soft, non ending job as many of us get pink slips. When CSCO lays off 20,000 employees, where are the pink slips from government?
I don't need someone following how many calories I eat, or telling me what car to drive, or telling my local school what to teach. Most oldsters I talk to are willing to take a hit as long as it wasn't catastrophic. A government worker marches and threatens just to keep from paying for their own retirement. The madness has to stop, and stop soon.
"Darling [at left], 67, is a 21-year veteran lawmaker from River Hills..."
No way she's 67. If so, she's been a cryogenics guinea pig for 20-30 years.
I'll bet many taxpayers thought it was a lost cause and didn't vote (or were intimidated) because of all the outside union thugs trashing the state. Now that the Republican support showed up despite the threats, they'll come out and support their fellow tax payers as well in the next set of elections.
What about light bulbs? Do you need the government to tell you what light bulbs you need?
I know dems/unions have been stealing close elections for a long time, and I just wonder if we're witnessing the reversal of that trend. It would sure be nice.
Yeah, I may need that,( picture of the Jerk with his pants at his ankles carring a thermos), because I will always pick the cheapest if the gubmint doesn’t force me to watch my carbon footprint.
Actually the voter ID did not really have an effect at all. This was another ‘test election’ for voter ID. Voters were ‘asked’ to show ID but was not a requirement to vote.
The first ‘real’ election where ID is mandatory will be the 2012 election. We will see then how big an impact it has.
I heard one democrat, I’m thinking it was one of the race-baiters, say (admit) that they’d lose 11% of their vote total if photo ID was a requirement.
I had no idea that voter fraud was that rampant.
I also would like to see how much was spent on these WI recalls and where it came from.
My first teaching gig was at UW-Richland Center. I hated it. Hated WI. But I’m proud of you guys.
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