I’ll be the first to admit when I’m wrong. I’ve always thought that people want to elect the best candidate regardless of partisanship, and would vote against abuse of power and poor judgment 100% of the time. Well, not when it comes to presidents or state supreme court judges. This is a sad day for Wisconsin. It’s really too bad that people bought into all those WMC attack ads which did not really discredit Clifford’s ability as much as they attacked her personally. I have to admit though, that as much as Linda Clifford’s ads negatively portrayed Ann Ziegler’s judicial history without attacking her personally, her ads never really mixed in anything positive and substantial about herself. Simply put, Clifford didn’t make it personal enough with Ziegler or herself for that matter, too cold and businesslike, while WMC and Ziegler ads mocked Clifford personally and effectively with the dark moonlit images and repetitive sound bites. This was also a very telling display of power by business special interests like the WMC.
Walworth County made the biggest mistake of their political lives by choosing to forfeit representation and downsize the county board from 25 to 11 members. Nobody can save them now, but Rock County residents better have their democracy radar turned on because the wealthy power players here are going to use the Walworth vote as a battering ram.
JG Excerpt:
"Our objective is to get good, honest people into office to run a $147 million operation. The people there now can't do it." -- Bret Strong (downsizing supporter)
Yep, the people there before were lazy, dishonest shmucks who played into the hands of greedy venture capitalists. What a disgrace!!
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