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?
The voters have to get angry at these corrupt groups, like WMC.
ReplyDeleteOne group running an ad that was pulled for being slanderous, and then changed, is run by Coalition for Americas Families.
That coalition is run, owned and operated by Steve King, the current Wisc GOP National Committee Chairman! not just the former Wisc GOP Chair.
So is King raising money for his PAC, along with the GOP, at the same time?
Keep writing your letters tot he editors of your newspapers, your local radio & TV and be angry.
I've never understood why our state's highest court - or any state's highest court for that matter - should be elected, for all the reasons you've cited.
ReplyDeleteWhat about your friend Bill Christofferson and the ads that his group is running? I guess those are okay because they agree with your position
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