Posted on 04/05/2016 9:27:47 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
Madison — State Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley was elected to a 10-year term Tuesday, overcoming a challenge from Appeals Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg and keeping the job Gov. Scott Walker appointed her to in the fall.
Her win preserves conservatives' 5-2 control of the court.
The Associated Press called the race for Bradley just before 11 p.m.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court
Won Candidate Party Votes %
Rebecca Bradley (i) 881887 53
JoAnne Kloppenburg 792755 47
Precincts Reporting - 86%
I bet you can imagine what each looks like, if you try.
This is good news indeed, Kloppenburg is a horrible woman and should not even hold the position she now has.
10 year term? Only in government.
Well, this is a term as a judge, not as a government legislative or executive job.
In some places, a judge would have a lifetime appointment. Just saying.
Kloppenburg, with a face resembling wrinkled death -is the most slimy Wisconsin Judge in the states history.
Check out the comments out of Madistan.
http://www.channel3000.com/news/politics/bradley-wins-state-supreme-court-race/38872612
Excellent news.
The name Kloppenburg is familiar to me, I think this witch ran for Supreme Court before.
Excellent news.
The name Kloppenburg is familiar to me, I think this witch ran for Supreme Court before.
The queer bashing ultimately helped Bradley defeat this confirmed lesbian Kloppenblurp.
I know but I don’t like either.
No it’s spelled MADiSTAIN.
This was an extremely critical race. I voted for her.
Lovs here tend to throw every law thdy dont like into the courts. They sfart in Madison and get stays, and the WI scotus has to knock them back down eventually.
I would reconsider your brash words.
We get to elect our state scotus judges and it is not a given they get re-elected. Ten yeas is long enough to have good judges on the bench without being in campaign mode all the time.
The 7 seats do not all come up for re-election at the same time so there are elections for 1 judge every year or two. It works well.
When did you vote for a federal scotus judge? Never.
Yes, Kloppenburg is the Commie lawyer that ran for the Supreme Court a couple of years ago against conservative Judge Prosser (in a campaign in which the unions spent millions to try to turn the one-vote conservative majority into a one-vote liberal majority) and declared victory on election night despite leading by less than 1,000 votes statewide, but one or two days later the Waukesha County Clerk sent in the vote from the city of Brookfield, which she inadvertently had not included in the results ftom election night (literally be ause she did not hit “save” after inputting the numbers originally) and Prosser ended up winning by more than the automatic recount margin. It was beautiful.
Bradley’s 52%-48% win last night was particularly impressive because both she and Kloppenburg had gotten around 44% in the “primary” a few months ago, with the other 12% or so going to a Democrat, so Bradley won due to much higher GOP turnout in the general yesterday (good thing that WI doesn’t have “instant run-off” or Bradley would have lost the election a few months ago; keep that in mind, Impy). Looking at the total turnout in the GOP and Dem presidential primaries, the higher number of GOP voters pretty much explains Bradley’s victory margin. Of course, thousands of presidential-primary voters left the judicial election blank; it wuld be interesting to study whether the percentage gap between GOP presidential-primary votes and Bradley votes was higher in counties carried by Cruz or counties carried by Trump.
I wouldn’t propose an instant-runoff for a stupid non-partisan primary. Of course I would never have non-partisan elections in the first place.
For my POTUS primary idea, I could easily change it to having a separate top-2 runoff election a couple months later. Perhaps that’s better.
I’m reminded of the Cali Senate race, there was a poll out recently, dem/dem runoff looking very likely. Ugh.
Anyhow, great great news beating this witch again, I had forgotten we picked up seat to make it 5-2 now.
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