WMC Continues State Supreme Court Acquisition Strategy

If you are the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, your plan to turn the State Supreme Court into a subsidiary is simple:

Just spend millions.

It's a simple bottom-line calculation, as if the organization had hired a merger and acquisition specialist who came up with a per-share cost, and the investment/takeover strategy.

Last year, the WMC poured millions into the race won by Annette Ziegler, formerly a circuit court judge from West Bend.

This year's opportunity has surfaced in the selection of Burnett County circuit court judge Michael Gableman, a guy less obscure than was Ziegler and whom no one's heard of - - the dream candidate if you've got millions on hand to define the candidate for voters through saturation TV spots - - and who got his judicial appointment to the circuit court in a town 300 miles from his residence under very strange circumstances.

The tragedy for government and members of the general public below CEO status is that this strategic, money-driven insertion of activist justices beholden to the WMC will reduce the Supreme Court to little more than a Kangaroo Court.

Will the Court add the disclaimer "authorized and paid for by the Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, etc. etc." to its decisions if Gableman wins?