Both Charlie Sykes this morning on AM 620 WTMJ radio and Mark Belling guest host Ted Kanavas, a former GOP State Senator from Brookfield, spun out the same line:
Prosser stood his ground against a wave of outside, labor money.
Please: Prosser was the incumbent. He had run and won a statewide race ten years ago. He won the February primary in a four-person field with 55% of the vote.
And he lost - -yes, by a razor-thin margin, but lost - - to a newcomer, a first-time candidate, with minuscule name recognition who had gotten a third of the primary vote.
Prosser losing, and not running ahead ahead, would be like The Milwaukee Bucks losing in the seventh game of the NBA finals to a high school team - - and no offense meant to winner JoAnne Kloppenburg.
She ran a tough race, and independent groups supporting her were outspent by Prosser surrogates by 50%, as the Journal Sentinel reported.
There's no way Republicans can put lipstick on the pig.
both belling yesterday, and wagner today, used the term "perfect storm" in spinning that kloppenburg should've won handily if she was a decent candidate. i don't think wagner gets his ideas from listening to belling, since belling thinks he's a doofus. but maybe they, and sykes, have a common source of ideas.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't explain how Prosser outspend Kloppenberg 3-1, and still got beat. Most of that money coming from out-of-state. Just another example of when a republicans complains about the dems doing something, it is exactly what they are doing.
ReplyDeleteHere's my happy thought for today: The Koch Bros. and the WMC and others are all kicking themselves in their keisters for going cheap and not dropping ANOTHER million bucks on Wisconsin to buy another thousand votes to beat Abrahamson, excuse me, Kloppenburg. (But it's that b*tch, unquote Prosser, that is their target in ramping up high court campaign costs.) C'mon, have fun with me in imagining that Koch Bros. call from Wichita this morning to the WMC and Walker -- a real call from a Koch this time.
ReplyDeleteuh oh! Better change the title... at least for a few hours. Looks like Prosser is now in the lead.... until Madison election officials find out.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd be curious to hear them spin is how unknown candidate Chris Abele (with some apparently questionable past indiscretions) could trounce Walker colleague Jeff Stone in the race to fill Walker's old County Exec job, after Stone had demolished Abele in the Feb. primary (43%-25%). Although Abele greatly outspent Stone in the general election, it was the people from Walker's backyard--that had elected Walker multiple times--that essentially said, no, we want to dissociate ourselves from the stench that is coming from Madison.
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