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Dp u believe in miracles

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Do u believe in miracles

[Cheerio]

Just checked my email - this came in this late this afternoon....

Michael Keegan, People For the American Way
Thursday, April 7, 2011 3:23 PM

Dear xxxxx,

The votes have been counted, and although the results were incredibly close and a recount is likely, it looks like we did it! With historically high turnout -- 1.5 million people for an April election -- Wisconsin voters on Tuesday voted to send Gov. Scott Walker’s staunchest ally on the Wisconsin Supreme Court packing.

As a PFAW supporter, you know better than most that judges matter. Justice David Prosser was a very right-wing state legislator before becoming a very right-wing, pro-corporate judge on the state’s high court. He had made statements indicating that he would be little more than Walker’s proxy on the court, especially when hearing the inevitable legal challenges against Walker’s legislative assault on workers and the middle class.

Of course, corporate cash poured in by the boatload to help Prosser hold his seat -- via expenditures by groups like Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, the so-called Citizens for a Strong America (CSA), Wisconsin Club for Growth and the State Tea Party Express.

With the money and the odds stacked against us, this victory of People Power over Corporate Power is a testament to the strength of our new movement to rein in the right-wing and corporate rapaciousness that’s destroying our middle class.

Prosser’s opponent JoAnne Kloppenburg’s victory was a close one -- only a few hundred votes -- and Prosser will likely request a recount. But just a month ago, Prosser was polling way ahead of Kloppenburg. And if this victory stands, it will be only the fifth time a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has been unseated since the court's establishment in 1852.

Your support for People For the American Way helped make a difference in this incredibly close election. We called Wisconsin voters, put up ads and mobilized our Wisconsin members to help turn out the progressive vote.

We’ll take the moment from this win right into the recall fight and, with your continued support, we’ll win those battles too. Just today it was announced that enough recall petitions have been collected to force the recall election of so-far the second Walker-supporting Republican Wisconsin senator. And petition efforts are still under way for other potentially Republican vulnerable senators.

Stay with us in this fight -- not just in Wisconsin but in every state. With the Tea Party-dominated Republican U.S. House majority’s new attacks on Medicare and Medicaid, and their apparent willingness to shut down the U.S. government rather than have their corporate donors and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes, this fight is now truly a national one.

Thank you for all that you do.

Sincerely,
Michael Keegan, President


Had a good laugh just reading this - there must be heads exploding over in lib land.

[Free Vulcan]

Pigs...pigs flying outside my window!

[Mountain Mary]

http://www.jsonline.com/

Watch Press Conference here!

[NoGrayZone]

An error??? When the say error is the same thing as barry a natural born American error?

[Ron H.]

It would seem that Kloppenburg got Klobbenburged in the end.

[dfwgator]

"We fixed the glitch."

[Future Useless Eater]

Man those ‘RATS must be going bat-$hit crazy!

If they’d only KNOWN those +7300 votes were out there, they would have manufactured another 7500 for themselves!!

[Political Junkie Too]

I sure hope that Kloppenburg isn't going to get snippy about this.

-PJ

[Brown Deer]

Kloppenburg campaign statement

Statement from JoAnne Kloppenburg campaign manager Melissa Mulliken:

"Wisconsin voters as well as the Kloppenburg for Justice Campaign deserve a full explanation of how and why these 14,000 votes from an entire City were missed. To that end, we will be filing open records requests for all relevant documentation related to the reporting of election results in Waukesha County, as well as to the discovery and reporting of the errors announced by the County. We are confident that election officials in Waukesha County will fulfill these requests as quickly as possible so that both our campaign and the people of Wisconsin can fully understand what happened and why. Just as Assistant Attorney General Kloppenburg has run to restore confidence in the court, Wisconsin residents also deserve to have full confidence in election results."

[Recovering_Democrat]

So what are the percentages now? Is it like 53 to 47?

[Colonel_Flagg]

So that means the newspapers who ran that bulls**t “Wisconsin voters send stinging rebuke to Scott Walker” stories are all printing retractions .. right?

Hello? McFly?

[wigswest]

Words cannot even approach the total awesomeness of this.

[Dengar01]

Ok, I admit I was very pessimistic on the forum on Tuesday because I knew what thugs the democrats / unions were.

I am giddy tonight. I went to the White Sox home opener and the Sox won, I come home and find out that Prosser won and the dems are crying like babies. I don't know a better day other than the defeat of Obama in 2012.

[Brown Deer]

[KansasGirl]

This is the first time I’ve checked FR today (my cat dumped a glass of water all over my laptop and fried it this morning). I finally get around to checking FR on the desktop and find this! This is just fantastic news! I had a really bad day, and this makes it seem not quite as bad!

[fwdude]

The loony Left is clamoring for a re-do now. How absolutely juvenile is that?

And if another Prosser win on re-do, a re-re-do... like in Florida 2000.

[April Lexington]

Very clever idea! Hold back one massive GOP district until all of the Rat vote manufacturers have done their deed and gone home. Then, drop the GOP bomb. No way for Rat vote manufacturers to recover! Brilliant job by the GOP. My faith in the GOP is being restored... Brilliant strategy to outfox the b*stards!

[fwdude]

DemoRats are now demanding “investigations” into the bad reporting. As if AP is some government agency that requires exact answers on cue.