Wisconsin Supreme Court recount - Dem. Kloppenberg leads Repub. Prosser

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Originally Posted by wiphan

I guess the idea of a supreme court judge declaring victory and passing judgment with only a few hundred vote difference originally is how our judges should handle themselves.

Well, yes. Absolutely. When it is stated officially that all the votes are in and counted, precinct by precinct, and that there is a 200 vote victory, and it's you, Kloppenberg rightly came out - not prematurely, she waited until the official vote count was completed - and said looks like we won, and waited to see if Prosser was going to file a recount petition - which they were angry and foaming at the mouth to do, and you know it.

What in the world is wrong with Kloppenberg coming out at the end of a long count and saying "looks like we won by 200 votes"? Then acknowledging the election isn't yet certified, knowing that would prompt the auto recount. Seriously? You think that was bad behaviour? Seriously?

Then, three days later, Waukesha had the Dem election judges certify the results for that county in the am, that afternoon the right wing blogs started talking about a 7,000 count bag of uncounted votes found [how did right wing websites know about this before election officials?], and there was a 5:00pm press conference where the Waukesha county clerk said she found those votes had magically been deleted from her computer, and were not in the totals counted. And she knew about it before that morning, when she had the Dems sign off on the election results of her county.

Yes, I know exactly who the classier candidate - and party - was in this election.

The Republicans are on their way out in Wisconsin. They will no longer hold the statehouse majority, and they know it - they are panicking, rushing through every bill giving Walker more and more power they can think of. Walker will be recalled, too. The demonstrations and activism are still strong in Wisconsin. The GOP came into power and did things they never mentioned, and the citizens are pissed. Walker can't go anywhere without demonstrators every single day. Walker is stuck with his union busting bill making it's way through the courts, because he doesn't have the votes now to retake it and simply pass it the normal way (without secret meetings, saying it's not a budget bill so they don't need a certain vote count, etc).