Our billionaires cancel out your billionaires!
We will wait for the Good Gummint Goo-Goos to demand Wisconsin quit electing its supreme court justices— but no breath shall we hold! This year’s WI Supreme Court election is expected to blow past last year’s $56 million that elected Janet (spell it with me) Protasiewicz. Rain gear is advised for the merde that will be thrown through April 1. Our court races are more partisan than Tammany Hall.
Dane County Judge Susan Crawford was featured at a campaign event 01-13-25 at county Democratic Party headquarters in Green Bay. Invitations billed it as a “chance to put two more House seats in play for 2026.” The New York Times reported the event was organized by California Linked-In billionaire Reid Hoffman. Wisconsin Democratic party chairman Ben Wikler was also featured. Given that Democrats need flip only three seats to take control of the U.S. House of Reps,* the April 1 election is important nationwide. (* assuming Republicans hold the two Florida vacancies.)
Those two seats would be Derrick Van Orden’s in the La Crosse/Eau Claire district and Bryan Steil’s in the Janesville/Kenosha district. Susan Crawford keeps the high court 4 to 3 liberal if she can replace Ann Walsh Bradley, who is retiring. Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel, formerly a Republican state attorney general, is her opponent. Elon Musk is hoisting Brad on his shoulders.
But the WI Supreme Court race is non-partisan. Right!
Dane county: make a wish
“There’s a virtual guarantee that they will overturn the congressional maps if Ms. Crawford wins this race. It’s no longer an academic exercise that this is what could happen. This is what is happening.” — U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-WI
Court watchers have already gamed out how a (spell it with me) Protasiewicz/Crawford court would divvy up Democrat-vote rich Dane County to sink Van Orden in the Third District and Steil in the First.
• Their 3rd District would extend from Chippewa Falls in northwest Wisconsin to Middleton.
• The new 1st District would extend from Kenosha to Monona
• Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald (both Republicans) would be drawn out of their districts, although they’d likely remain Republican.
If the scheme works, Wisconsin’s congressional delegation would go from 6 to 2 Republican to an even 4 to 4 split.
Republican candidates in our eight congressional districts garnered 51.2% of the votes last November to Democrats’ 48.2%. Almost 50/50. But in 2022, Republicans took 55.5% of the total congressional vote to 40.1% for Democrats. Community of Interest is a key element of good legislative districting. Is Dane County a community of interest? So is compactness.
Crawford represented no-exceptions abortion-provider Planned Parenthood and was chief legal counsel to Gov. Jim Doyle. She accuses Schimel of being partisan. Judge Schimel was elected a Republican attorney general.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Can’t we amend the state constitution to allow the governor to appoint justices, with legislative approval, as is done in California, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey — and at the national level? Or to hell with it, make ’em partisan like eight other states, including Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana — three of the more corrupt states in the union.
8 responses to “Are you ready for the mud slide?”
In no uncertain words, The Gotch must say he’s VERY pleasantly surprised at Kinser’s showing!
The Gotch
So are the indentured servants. One could venture that Jill Underly’s 38% is a tremendous vote of no confidence. Not that Brittany Kinser is assured of Jeff Wright’s 27.5%.
“So are the indentured servants.”
And their Overlord…?
The Gotch
“Not that Brittany Kinser is assured of Jeff Wright’s 27.5%.”
Heard on NBC-15 news @5:00 that Wright and Kisner agreed on a number of issues, not the least of which was restoring higher standards and expectations. So we’re left to ponder; how many of Wright’s 27.5% voted for him other than UNDERly because of that?
To paraphrase Charly from Death Of A Salesman: Dammit Blaska, a Righty is got to dream, boy!
“Very few if any Wright supporters will vote for her.”
Oh ye of little faith…
The Gotch
I read the results as she has 0 chance in the general election.
Very few if any Wright supporters will vote for her.
“I read the results as she has 0 chance in the general election.”
The Gotch, and he’s not alone on this, thought she had 0 chance in THIS election.
It gets better:
In Stunning Rebuke, Gov. Evers Says He Will ‘ABSOLUTELY NOT’ Endorse Jill Underly in Primary
From The Ashes Of Despair…..
The Gotch
99.99% chance he endorses her now.
The .01% chance is he has the big one and is too dead to endorse anyone. Freshly dead he still endorses Underly.
Mmmm, mudslides are delicious!