Republicans and Democrats are pouring millions into an obscure Wisconsin judicial race that has suddenly emerged as a proxy battle over the policies of GOP Gov. Scott Walker, with each candidates’ supporters accusing their opponents of dirty political tricks.
The outcome of Tuesday’s election for the state's Supreme Court, which pits incumbent conservative Justice David Prosser against Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg, could have national implications
At stake is the measure Walker signed into law that cuts most bargaining rights for public sector workers which is under challenge and likely to be appealed to the state Supreme Court. The court now now holds a slim conservative majority.
“I would say the campaign being run against Prosser is absolutely, filthy dirty,” Levi Russell, a spokesman for Tea Party Express, tells Newsmax.
Russell adds that several of the third-party ads targeting Prosser are “abject lies, just completely false.”
Prossers’ supporters are especially angry that Kloppenburg has refused to denounce an ad in a third-party progressive organization charges that when Prosser was the Outagamie County district attorney in 1978, he failed to aggressively prosecute a case against a priest who was later convicted of abusing a man who now lives in Virginia.
The individual who suffered the abuse, Troy Merryfield, has since come forward to appear in a pro-Prosser ad sponsored by Citizens for a Strong America. In that ad, Merryfield states he is “being victimized again. This time, JoAnne Kloppenburg’s allies want to use our pain for their own gain.”
On Sunday, a reporter for National Review Online asked Kloppenburg why she had not disavowed the ad.
“Third parties have First Amendment rights to run the ads of their own choosing,” she replied. “I’m not whining about all of the attacks ads that are untrue about me.” Asked to specify which ads she was referring to, Kloppenburg replied, “All of them.”
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4 comments:
This proves justice does have a price.
All it proves is that the left will smear anyone they can to promote their radical agenda.
Let's vote on whether unions represent the working class. Wisconsin has a referendum. Let the people decide and not one man who never ran on this issue in the first place. Are you guys afraid of something?
Debbie is a smart, hard-worki¬ng dynamo. She is the perfect fit to help lead our party. Whoever ends up being the Republican presidenti¬al nominee will come to regret that Debbie was tapped for this job.
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