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My comment has been 'pending approval' for 45 minutes or so. Let me try this again:

Apparently United Wisconsin didn't like the way the comment section was going the first time this was posted, so they decided to try again.

http://foxpoint.patch.com/blog_posts/endorsement-of-ed-fallone-for-wisconsin-supreme-court

Vote for positive change in WI

http://democurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/02/justice-roggensack-insists-activism.html?spref=tw

..There’s no question the Wisconsin Supreme Court is dysfunctional, with a roguish band of activist conservative justices that have bent over backwards to quickly advance the legislatures political agenda. Its attempted power grab to change the way the chief justice is chosen, along with threats and physical altercations that have embarrassed the state nationally, should no longer be tolerated.

And that’s why candidate Ed Fallone let Justice Roggensack have it:

jsonline: Two challengers to incumbent Justice Patience Roggensack let her and the audience know that they think the high court needs reform that only a change of personnel can bring.

Ed Fallone, a Marquette University law professor, criticized Roggensack for recusing herself from hearing an ethics complaint against Justice David Prosser over his 2011 physical altercation with Justice Ann Bradley and for supporting closure of certain administrative conferences that had long been held in public.

He cast the court as "completely dysfunctional," hamstrung by incivility that even extends to "personal sniping in (published) opinions."
Remember the rogue’s gallery of extremist Republican supporters that turned out to celebrate David Prosser’s reelection win? Nothing screamed activist justice after all the Prosser thank you's? But in the fantasy world of conservatism, ..

"If Fallone isn't knowledgeable enough to know that one cannot be both a material witness and a judge on a case, then I don't think he belongs on the court.

Roggensack, by law, had to recuse herself as she was present during the Bradley-Prosser incident."

This is the beauty of Internet commenting. One should never - ever - pause to consider the possibility that one might not have a fully considered opinion or wonder whether - given that someone speaking from a position of apparent authority has said something contrary to one's own prior understanding - one might have missed something. No, that would not be appropriate at all. One's own half-thought-through view of things must be right, because it is one's own. So one must comment away.

What I am suggesting, CowDung, is that perhaps this is a unique situation that does not fall neatly within the simple rule as you understand it (rules sometimes have exceptions, doncha know). You might start your inquiry (note that I said "start" and not "end") with something called the "rule of necessity" and see whether that helps. You might well reach the conclusion that Roggensack's view is correct. But there are substantial arguments on both sides. To act as if Fallone is stupid or evil for holding the contrary position is, at a minimum, jump the gun.

United Wisconsin was a major player in the Recall Walker effort. Thus a radical Progressive like Ed Fallone would be a very, very, very bad choice to sit on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

They think Ed's so nice they endorsed him twice?

I could have sworn this was posted before and we had discussed, among other things, Lyle's penchant for voting for balance versus along party lines.

She can not even report her contributions!

February 1, 2013

The Case of the Missing Contributions: Roggensack Fails to Report Big Money From Out-of-State Private School Voucher Backers in Latest Campaign Finance Report

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/press/httpwwwonewisconsinnoworgfilesroggensack20doesnt20report20voucher20cashpdf.html

Madison -- A review of campaign finance reports by One Wisconsin Now has uncovered that State Supreme Court candidate Patience Roggensack failed to disclose $20,550 in campaign contributions bundled by backers of the private school voucher program on her latest campaign finance report. While Roggensack’s campaign failed to report the contribution, a separate report filed by the group Fund for Parent Choice shows they made a contribution of $20,550 to Roggensack on December 27, 2012, several days before the close of the reporting period.

One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross commented, “While the right-wing boasts that Patience Roggensack will, as a member of the court, vote to protect the program that gives parents a government voucher to send their child to private schools, her campaign fails to disclose tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions that she’s received in return from the out-of-state billionaire ideologues that back the voucher program experiment.”

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In the age of the InterWebs a 'double posting campaign' has the equivalent feel of an 'Airborne Leaflet Drop'.

Another grand tweet from United WIsconsin!

United Wisconsin @UnitedWisconsin
Scott Walker gets smackdown from Minnesota governor after job pitch: bit.ly/WTW2If #wiunion #wipolitics

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In a political smackdown, however, Dayton took a shot at Walker during his State of the State address on Wednesday, noting that Minnesota was 12th in the nation in job creation last year while Wisconsin “which, by the way, is ‘open for business,’ helped bring up the rear at 42nd.”

Dayton kept up the drubbing: "And, help spread the word across the St. Croix, their unemployment rate last month was 20 percent higher than ours, while our per-capita income was 12 percent higher than theirs."

Also left out of the discussion is that Minnesota has seen its wages and incomes increase over the past decades while Wisconsin has been going in the opposite direction.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/mike_ivey/scott-walker-gets-smackdown-from-minnesota-governor-after-job-pitch/article_335c83ba-7178-11e2-b297-001a4bcf887a.html#ixzz2KKrgYWuF

Wealthy voucher supporters spend big bucks in Supreme Court race

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/jack_craver/wealthy-voucher-supporters-spend-big-bucks-in-supreme-court-race/article_46d1715a-7176-11e2-80bd-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz2KKv2St5a

......The Wisconsin Education Association Council, for instance, recently announced its endorsement of Fallone, a Marquette University Law School professor.

“He understands educators and both of his children attended public school,” said executive director Mary Bell in a statement. “He believes the law is about logic and the court should act as an independent check when the political branches of government overreach and threaten the individual rights granted in our Constitution.”

Significantly, unions and other progressive groups are shunning the other liberal-leaning candidate in the race, Megna, whom they see as unelectable, due to his often-outrageous campaign antics and his unapologetically partisan campaign.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/jack_craver/wealthy-voucher-supporters-spend-big-bucks-in-supreme-court-race/article_46d1715a-7176-11e2-80bd-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz2KKufksYi...

Why is this propaganda being allowed to be posted twice? L I be r a l m e d I a.

Lately it seems like anything that gets more than a certain number of comments qualifies for rehashing, but usually it's not just a reposting of exactly the same article/opinion piece. I'd be interested in hearing why an identical endorsement was posted twice, two days apart, and why both remain in place. I don't personally find it particularly bothersome - just odd.

If I form a non-profit with a high-minded name, start faxing & emailing press releases, do I get to publish such propaganda too? Who'd a thunk it?

Some folks have had enough of the TeaGOP in Wisconsin!

http://cognidissidence.blogspot.com/2013/02/escape-from-fitzwalkerstan.html

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Escape From Fitzwalkerstan!
Did you ever wonder how the unemployment percentage continued to drop even as we kept having more people losing their jobs?

Simple.

Between the Republicans, led by Scott Walker, trying to ruin the state and Chris Abele trying to turn Milwaukee County into a plutocratic utopia, people have been simply packing up and leaving the state in droves.

Will the last one out please turn off the lights?

Good for Russ.

rootriversiren Root River Siren: Feingold Endorses Fallone rootriversiren.blogspot.com/2013/02/feingo… #wiunion

Friday, February 8, 2013
Feingold Endorses Fallone

I was wondering what was going to wake Rusty up from his nap.

We know it was not going to be his concerns over drone killings...because agenda tops character.

Fallone is being bankrolled by "SPECIAL INTERESTS".

Progressives PAC is supplying boatloads of money to the Fallone campaign.

The leftist can't win at the ballot box, so they are attempting to legislate from the bench. I predict this will turn out much like Prosser's election, i.e. a 53-47 victory for Roggensack.

But I thought that judges were removed from partisan politics! Their total impartiality and service to justice must be what causes one political party or the other to throw all of its weight and money behind them.

This post is missing its most critical element, though, the statement that "this election is a referendum on the policies of Scott Walker". Why was that statement used so frequenty and prominently by liberals regarding all the previous ballots that ended in a conservative victory, but it does not appear here? Has it become a "kiss of death" to utter on campaign?

Voting fraud 'DISENFRANCHISES'

95% of the people belching racism CHOOSE to be in same color/race relationships (marriage, shacking, friend(s)) yet claim they're not bigot's or racist. Go figure!

Man on man sex, boy on boy sex and man on boy sex is all gay sex.

Gun's don't murder 3,000 preborn preschooler's DAILY in the U.S.,...progressive Democrat policies do.

Unions and liberal lame stream media are independantly the 2 most wealthiest and powerful lobbying groups...not the NRA.

Good for Ed.

PolitiScoop ‏@PolitiScoop

Fallone Campaign continues to build momentum heading into primary http://www.politiscoop.com/campaign-trail/item/1437-fallone-campaign-continues-to-build-momentum-heading-into-primary.html … #wiunion

Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Ed Fallone announced today that Congresswomen Gwen Moore, former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, and former U.S. Congressman Dave Obey have endorsed his campaign for Wisconsin Supreme Court.

“It’s an honor to have the support of three leaders who have spent their careers fighting for justice, access, and fairness in government,” said Fallone. “As a Supreme Court Justice I will always stand up to the special interests and ensure that all Wisconsinites have equal access to our justice system."

The Fallone campaign will announce additional endorsements in the coming days.

Lets get the good word out for Ed.

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if you do the right thing you dont have to compromise. why is it so difficult ! Fallone has enough of his playmates in the court allready .lets promote a little alittle balance with different veiws.remember the SCALES that represent balance? KEEP THE COURTS IN BALANCE ! VOTE ROGGENSACK!

hey all you authours where do yuos come up with all these fairytale names?What are yous hiding from Why dontyou all want anyone to know who you REALLY R?

Why is it that liberal causes can never find a candidate with any experiance? Fallone has never been a judge at anything, so exactly what qualifies him to sit on the high bench? You know, records mean something.

Time for RAG... to get a new job! Vote for Fallone.

On Tuesday, hold Pat Roggensack to account host.madison.com/news/opinion/c… #wiunion #wipolitics
Tuesday’s primary begins an election process in which Roggensack will be held to account. She’s spending a lot of money from out-of-state donors — especially wealthy critics of public education who hope the court will back so-called “school choice” proposals — in order to win re-election. Her opponents, Marquette University professor Ed Fallone and consumer lawyer Vince Megna, while less well funded, are mounting spirited campaigns.

Megna says of the court: “Nothing will change if Justice Roggensack is re-elected.”

Fallone makes a somewhat different case, arguing that Roggensack is part of a deeper dysfunction — that the real problem is an abandonment of the court’s historic commitment to independent and nonpartisan judicial review. The Capital Times has endorsed Fallone because he has focused on healing the court by renewing its commitment to respect the Constitution and the rule of law and avoiding the sort of blatant judicial activism that was on display when Roggensack and her allies rejected open meetings rules in order to advance Gov. Walker’s agenda. Fallone is also an enthusiastic proponent of getting big money out of judicial elections, with campaign finance reforms such as the Impartial Justice Act.....

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when Roggensach win reelection just think what the Phamacutical stocks are going to do.WEEEEEEEEEEE

Ed Fallone is a clown.

So when is the next BBQ...Didn't United Wisconsin do one on the Northside of Milwaukee?