Soglin On The Election And The WMC

Plenty of blogging to read on the Supreme Court race.

WisOpinion's index today can keep you busy, and Paul Soglin is definitely worth a read.

Mike Plaisted, and Illusory Tenant, too.

And before this election fades into memory, let's not let the victorious Mike Gableman or his supporters absolve themselves of this responsibility:

It was Gableman's campaign, authorized and paid for, with the candidate's approval, that ran the now-infamous Willie Horton, race-baiting attack on Justice Louis Butler.

An ad so misleading that it was condemned across-the-board by major mainstream media statewide and Charlie Sykes, Milwaukee's morning conservative talk show host on AM620 WTMJ.

It was Gableman's campaign committee, and not some "shadowy" third-party group, some outside PAC that dreamed up, paid for and aired the spot.

In Gableman's first TV ad. High fives all around when they saw it, no doubt.

And it was the candidate himself who refused all those appeals to take the ad down, and on election night thanked the "good people" of the state for following his lead.

Mike Gableman, his handlers and his financiers have severely devalued the political process in this state, and along with it, the reputation of its judiciary.

It will be interesting to see if Gableman makes any effort to correct this wrong, or acknowledges that he will drag this stain into the Court's chamber.

Gableman is the only person that can remove it.

Maybe he'll listen to some of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. audio tapes that will play on Friday, the anniversary of his assassination, and be moved to do some healing work.