tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post4309902342325597656..comments2023-10-24T11:23:31.580-04:00Comments on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: A Massachusetts Miracle In WisconsinWilliam A. Jacobsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16433685588536441422noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-20516304105281313032011-04-11T19:03:46.433-04:002011-04-11T19:03:46.433-04:00@Geoffrey, try to wrap your head around this. The...@Geoffrey, try to wrap your head around this. The mistake the County Clerk made *IN NO WAY* had anything to do with the actual number of votes cast.<br /><br />The original records will all be with the local authorities. They can be checked. It wouldn't have mattered if she had copied down the vote totals called in to [or sent electronically] on rice paper and stuffed them in her bra.<br /><br />The vote totals were reported properly and on time by the local officials.<br /><br />I know you *desperately* want to find a way to throw these votes out, but, seriously Dude, get a life.JorgXMcKiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07509568525555189690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-487748742358888262011-04-11T17:47:52.667-04:002011-04-11T17:47:52.667-04:00@Henry - once recall petition with sufficient name...@Henry - once recall petition with sufficient names is filed, there is a recall election in which the current official automatically is on the ballot, and anyone else wanting to run has to file tne necessary papers. http://elections.state.wi.us/docview.asp?docid=11827&locid=47William A. Jacobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16433685588536441422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-52421822322462960382011-04-11T17:46:24.636-04:002011-04-11T17:46:24.636-04:00Geoffrey: it's autosaved to a temp directory I...Geoffrey: it's autosaved to a temp directory IF YOU HAVE THAT OPTION TURNED ON.SDNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03294241092298713048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-76378086137537221352011-04-11T17:40:46.512-04:002011-04-11T17:40:46.512-04:00Could someone please clarify the Wisconsin recall ...Could someone please clarify the Wisconsin recall process? Normally, a recall referendum is held, and <i>only if the incumbent is recalled,</i> is a second election held. Does Wisconsin roll these two steps into one?Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15569206003851743608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-38256752962741819102011-04-11T17:00:22.002-04:002011-04-11T17:00:22.002-04:00I'd like to hear somebody defend Kathy Nichalo...I'd like to hear somebody defend Kathy Nichalous' questionable, if not illegal, handling of votes in Waukesha Co. Her statements contradict the reality of Access software protocols, because imported data is "saved" automatically. And why would she wait until Thursday to announce her "human error" if, as she said, she knew another it on Wednesday? All of these questions and more NEED to be addressed in a very serious investigation. If votes are gamed on computer systems, our nation is in peril.Geoffreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07361229468178444718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-72648265098435604122011-04-11T16:27:31.691-04:002011-04-11T16:27:31.691-04:00Waiting . . . according to Jessica Arp on Twitter ...Waiting . . . <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/news3jessica/status/57262172966891521" rel="nofollow">according to Jessica Arp on Twitter</a> some time ago, the presser is/was NOT about the Supreme Court election. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/119595644.html" rel="nofollow">Perhaps it was about the 2:48 pm update</a> to the story about the railroad executive charged with making campaign donations to Scott Walker's gubernatorial campaign, donations that exceeded allowable limits.Trochilushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07661310034696479920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-42321250716128257602011-04-11T13:50:53.513-04:002011-04-11T13:50:53.513-04:00Hmmmmm . . . I wonder what this is about?
Accor...Hmmmmm . . . <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/119574509.html" rel="nofollow">I wonder what this is about</a>? <br /><br />According to Meg Jones of the <b>Journal Sentinel</b>, a news conference has been scheduled for 2 pm by the Milwaukee county DA and the state Government Accountability Board on the results of a "significant investigation."<br /><br /><em>The state Government Accountability Board and Milwaukee County district attorney's office has scheduled a news conference Monday afternoon to discuss the results of a "significant investigation."<br /><br />No details were given about the investigation.<br /><br />The news conference is scheduled at 2 p.m. Monday at the Government Accountability Board office in Madison.</em>Trochilushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07661310034696479920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-2970933387967293472011-04-11T12:33:52.645-04:002011-04-11T12:33:52.645-04:00You are really on to something.
This telling ar...You are really on to something. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/119576029.html" rel="nofollow">This telling article by Craig Gilbert in the April 10th <b>Journal Sentinel</b></a> logically supports the overall notion that there may very well be a Massachusetts miracle brewing in Wisconsin. <br /><br />Entitled <em><b>"Election turnout magnified divide in Wisconsin"</b></em> the article indirectly demonstrates that voting patterns, even ones in which the result continues to be Dane County (Madison) versus the rest of the State, will inevitably result in a solid base of support for Republicans in proportional legislative districts far from the Madisoning crowd.<br /><br />Note from the story how Governor Walker expressed his take on the Supreme Court judicial election:<br /><br /><em>. . .<br />"You have two very different worlds in this state. You've got a world driven by Madison, and a world driven by everybody else. . . . What that tells me is just as you've seen in past elections, for president, for governor, for other offices, Wisconsin is not a red state. It's not a blue state. In many ways, it's a purple state. And it's divided on these issues."<br /><br />The governor's argument, echoed by many Republicans, is that: The election did not reflect negatively on Walker, it merely confirmed the state's underlying 50/50 political makeup, and if there were any backlash against the governor and his policies, it was mainly a Madison phenomenon.<br />. . . .</em><br /><br />While the author challenges that assessment a bit, he does observe that Dane County (Madison) went 73% to 27% for JoAnne Kloppenburg against Justice David Prosser, which required Prosser to make up the difference, and win by a total of 7% or more in the remainder of the State. <br /><br />He did.<br /><br />And he concedes that in the Democrat leaning City of Milwaukee, the judicial race resulted in a higher percentage of the vote going for Prosser than went for Walker in the gubernatorial race just last year:<br /><br /><em>. . .<br />Take Milwaukee, the state's other big Democratic county. It played a much different role than Dane in this election. It voted 57% to 43% for Kloppenburg over Prosser. Yet it was one of the few counties in the state where Prosser actually did better on Tuesday than Scott Walker did last fall. Prosser's share of the Milwaukee County vote was almost six points higher than Walker's was for governor in 2010.<br />. . . .</em><br /><br />So, even in the event of a continued 50/50 split in Wisconsin, huge concentrations of progressive/liberal (progrel) voters in a few urban districts will give them sizeable victories in a few such urban districts. But they will be outpaced in the larger numbers of more suburban and exurban districts throughout the state. <br /><br />That has to be at least one of the factors involved in the recall effort beginning to backfire on the progrels. <br /><br />They were stupidly paying attention to their own Madisonalien <em>"group-think"</em> notions when they launched the effort -- <b>NOT</b> to the real numbers out there in the rest of the State.<br /><br />Boy . . . when the progrels finally figure it out they’re going to be really cheezed! <br /><br />Heh!Trochilushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07661310034696479920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-9140665755703506952011-04-11T11:57:39.409-04:002011-04-11T11:57:39.409-04:00Whether Prosser wins by several thousand votes, or...<i>Whether Prosser wins by several thousand votes, or loses by a couple of hundred, the unions and Democrats gave it their best shot under near ideal circumstances, and they came up short of expectations.</i><br /><br />Real victories are better than moral victories. I hope Prosser gets his deserved win. <br /><br />The Left, having failed with union goons, is trying to get <a href="http://www.lakeshorelaments.com/?p=8796#respond" rel="nofollow">federal goons</a> involved.gshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17953008291916883288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-89451765901885040112011-04-11T10:04:56.198-04:002011-04-11T10:04:56.198-04:00The beneficiaries in MA were also republicans.The beneficiaries in MA were also republicans.Sturbridge Tea Partyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10724312291855284258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-46467231079250331392011-04-11T09:34:32.697-04:002011-04-11T09:34:32.697-04:00The left love to fight. The right, not so much. ...The left love to fight. The right, not so much. They would rather be creative and work smart and out-smart. Stories like that start Monday off on the right foot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-35226845916080943612011-04-11T09:26:40.319-04:002011-04-11T09:26:40.319-04:00@John, thanks, fixed. Hopefully Eric Boehlert did...@John, thanks, fixed. Hopefully Eric Boehlert didn't catch the typo first!William A. Jacobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16433685588536441422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1522121129844880066.post-76287275930628812362011-04-11T09:15:51.273-04:002011-04-11T09:15:51.273-04:00'There are the makings of a Massachusetts mira...'There are the makings of a Massachusetts miracle in Wisconsin, but the beneficiaries will not be Republicans, not Democrats.'<br /><br />Probably a typo; who is the beneficiary then?aka Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13840169407835436058noreply@blogger.com