Posted on 04/12/2023 8:19:40 AM PDT by Twotone
There’s no sugarcoating the fact last week’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election was a complete disaster for Republicans. In one of the nation’s most hotly-contested battleground states, Republican Daniel Kelly lost to Democrat Janet Protasiewicz by 11 points, meaning Democrats will now control the state’s highest court for the first time in 15 years. With cases regarding abortion, election integrity, and governmental overreach likely to be heard before the court in the coming years, Protasiewicz’s win is devastating for conservatives in the Badger State.
Given the high-stakes nature of the election, one would expect prominent conservatives to be raising the alarm about the race’s local and national implications. Yet, in the weeks leading up to the critically important election, the 2024 GOP presidential primary consumed the attention of leading conservative figures. While Republicans were busy fighting one another about who would make the best candidate to take on President Joe Biden in 2024, Democrats were laser-focused on taking control of Wisconsin’s highest court.
In the months leading up to the April 4 contest, Democrats poured millions into the race to back Protasiewicz’s campaign. According to OpenSecrets, the Democrat justice-elect raised $14 million, including $8.9 from the Wisconsin Democrat Party. Protasiewicz also received millions of dollars in donations from out-of-state figures such as leftist billionaire George Soros ($1 million) and Illinois Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker ($1 million).
Kelly, on the other hand, only managed to raise $2.6 million.
Such a massive difference in campaign cash doesn’t even account for the efforts left-wing groups took to mobilize Democrat voters ahead of the April 4 contest. In mid-March, for instance, VoteAmerica — a left-wing nonprofit — announced it was launching a “Wisconsin Campus Voter Turnout” program designed to encourage Wisconsin’s “233,238 students on 24 college and university campuses” to vote in the election.
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Count on Ronna Romney McDaniel to see to it that the DemocRATs “win”.
Pissed me off that Trump supported her.
It's what's for dinner for us, for the rest of our lives.
It was yet another stolen election. The Democrats had a vote buying operation going on, and it focused solely upon the Supreme Court race in Wisconsin.
The democrats can cheat without consequences and the results stand. They’d be fools not to continue! The republicans are so haplessly incompetent they can’t or won’t repair the election process. Supporting the r’s is like rooting for the washington generals, after a while you kind of suspect that they’re “in on it” with the globetrotters.
Great analogy.
Every so often the Republicans ‘get the ball’ (a slight majority) to continue the illusion, but never with enough of a majority to actually have to act on all the whining, bitching and moaning they do about the Democrats or to have to keep any promises...
Failure has a face and the GOP is wearing it.
Probably because the Wisconsin State Republican Party is run by people exactly like Ronna Romney McDaniel.
According to Wiki, Ronna is a vigorous and unfailing supporter of Donald Trump.
With friends like Ronna, who needs enemies?
“Republicans say ‘government doesn’t work’, then they get elected and prove it.” - P.J. O’Rourke
The GOPe is littered with these incompetent SOBs. They make up the right-wing of the Uniparty structure.
Seven paragraphs to get to the meat of the headline.
The article is factually correct regarding the 2 upcoming special elections in the PA state House, that if the GOP wins both elections they retake control which they lost in November thanks mainly to massive court-ordered Democrat gerrymandering and probably just a wee bit of good old Democrat Vote Fraud.
However no amount of “preparing” or wasted money is going to result in anything positive happening in the 163rd District, where (Democ)rats outnumber humans by about 20 percentage points. So at best we will continue to have Democrat control (102 seats to 101) in the PA House, assuming the Republicans win the other special election, which they should.
GOP prepare??? Two words, Ronna McRomney.
The first time I heard about this election was the day before the election.
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