Supreme Court Candidates Race Devolves To Facebook Level
Egads. I thought that sitting Justice David Prosser had already shown far too thin a skin, but now the intelely-politicized Wisconsin Supreme Court race for Prosser's seat has found an even lower low, as this Journal Sentinel story has Prosser complaining in front of a law school audience about a comment about him on opponent JoAnne Kloppenberg's Facebook page:
"That prompted Prosser to criticize comments made by people on Kloppenburg's Facebook page regarding Walker's budget-repair bill.
"Prosser quoted one of the Facebook comments: "Stop the turd, vote Kloppenburg."
"Now, am I the turd?" Prosser said. That's totally inappropriate."
"Kloppenburg said she's not responsible for postings by other people on her campaign's Facebook page."Facebook? Comments? On a Supreme Court Justice's mind? And volunteered as a rhetorical question in to a campaign debate at a law school?
All too weird.
Egads.
5 comments:
Good thing he doesn't read the Twitter feed!
Actually he followed up the question with another equally astounding question "Or is Governor Walker the turd?" From WPR news broadcast.
I hear Target sold out of punch bowls.
Wispolitics.com has the quote slightly different than I recall but the essential is there.
Prosser called the postings a direct attack on the independence of the judiciary and was particularly disturbed by one post.
“It says, 'Stop the turd, vote Kloppenburg,'” he said. "Am I the turd or is the governor the turd?"
http://www.wispolitics.com/index.iml?Article=230793
If you like that, go to "Kloppenburg defeats Prosser" on YouTube
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