"Tell Kloppy I'm pulling out of her efforts. You Unions have enough of your own money to throw whatever you want at her; I'm done."
Posted on 05/31/2011 9:54:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
JoAnn Kloppenburg finally conceded the Wisconsin Supreme Court race this morning, announcing that she had called incumbent Justice David Prosser to congratulate him on his win. She had until today to file a challenge to the recount, which gained her 312 votes but still left her slightly over 7,000 votes behind Prosser in the hotly-contested election:
Candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg has accepted the results of the recount in her state Supreme Court race and conceded to incumbent Justice David Prosser.
Prosser originally won the election by 7,316 votes, out of 1.5 million cast. Kloppenburg requested a statewide recount through, which she picked up 312 votes.
She had until Tuesday to decide whether to challenge the results in court.Prosser’s campaign has said there’s no basis for a challenge and it’s time to move on.
The news conference is still ongoing, although the TMJ4 live stream provided by the Journal-Sentinel has the sound turned off. Stay tuned for more …
Update: Again, I missed her statement, but 620TMJ has a couple of quotes:
Kloppenburg asked for a statewide recount after preliminary figures had her losing to Prosser.
“Wisconsin law makes it clear that even when such a record has been developed in such a recount, the threshold for a court to overturn such an election is appropriately very high,” said Kloppenburg.
“It would serve no purpose to bring a suit with insufficient legal basis.”
Why not? The recount had insufficient common-sense basis, and Kloppenburg didn’t hesitate to spend taxpayer money on a fruitless attempt to reverse a 7316-vote deficit. Maybe it would serve no purpose because Kloppenburg would foot the bill in an election challenge — and because she might want to run for office again in a state that would get pretty angry over a nonsensical challenge to a 7000-vote margin loss.
I’n surprised.
It can’t be ‘that easy’, there has to be some catch.
Expect them to shriek some propagandic B.S. about it later, trying to make it some ‘conspiracy’.
it is cloward piven in reverse.
I was looking for the Kloppenburg cyKLOP image, can’t find it.
Apparently photobucket has scrubbed it.
YAY....I’m glad she conceded and didn’t waste more money on a lost cause.
“kuddos to her for showing some character for a change”
No kuddos required. Her handlers have a limited budget. With the recall elections moving forward, her handlers cannot spare the resources to delay seating Prosser.
She has already proven to be an idiot.
The Dems know that any further action would uncover their attempts at ballot stuffing.
Thanks!
Mind if I save it?
I too am surprised. I figured the Party would push her to continue her campaign.
In my perspective this means they have another avenue they have found to address their grief with Prosser. Watch for some sort of lawsuit. Some form of litigation to try to stall, or stop him from continuing his seat.
This is truly a surprise......but a pleasant one!
And the fact that they disenfranchised 20 Catholic nuns
in Wisconsin, which still has a good number of conservative Catholics did not help.
I don’t see how. The opposing candidate conceded; the official body that oversees elections decleared Posser the winner. I am not an attorney but who would have standing to sue or to overturn the election at this point?
Actually what I’m trying to say is IMO they gave up too easily, therefore I believe they have another avenue they are going to take to stir up trouble. They won’t let this be the end of this game.
Watch for some future event the DemoRATS/Unions will initiate, participate. What? I don’t know, but they will resurface with something creative to attack Prosser, or the system to turn it upside down to get their way.
They gave up too easily, and that means trouble.
Nope, she just ran out of time. She beat that poor dead horse as long as she could.
I guess it does show character of the DemonRat sort.
Not at all, but please, no hotlinking. Enjoy!
I had to move it to another album in photobucket because too many folks were hotlinking it and it played havoc with my bandwidth.
What else did you expect to happen, Klop? Ya dumb beaver.
its hard to resist, isnt it ? lol
“I’m guessing the party looked at this and saw that the PR downside was far greater than any potential upside of delaying and deadlocking the court by forcing Prosser to recuse himself. Fear of backlash working against them in recall elections maybe?”
Agreed. They pissed away enough taxpayer money on this already.
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