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.
Ah, understood.
Saved.
It’s a hoot!
Here’s hoping Prosser refused to take her call.
And I’m hoping you’re correct!
I understand your disgust, but if she had persisted preventing the Justice from being reseated in the new court, the appeals would have progressed with the disadvantage of not having his normal jurisprudence. Sure is it very little and doesn't correct the damage done, but those state judges that are now contorting law the legislature and governor have put in place cannot be allowed to over rule consent of the governed and general self rule in Wisconsin since your folks have had the back-bone to show us the way at the state level nationwide.
Why did she give up? 24 more recounts and she would have won.
Please pardon me if my gratitude to old horse face is tepid.
Nah, we wouldn't want him to be "snippy about it", would we?
She’s served her purpose.
Maybe this idiotic witch is finally going to go away.
Listen to the “klopping” of a dead horse.
BITCH!!!
No, the unions have handled Klopp from the beginning.
If she conceded today it's only because her union handlers told her to concede.
“Wake up after all night bender, see that”
*shudder*
“The left has shown time and time again that when they do something that appears “sane”, there is something sinister behind it. Always watch what the other hand is doing.”
This is so true. It seems that our government accountability board here in Wisconsin are putting the three democrat recalls on hold but are going forward with the six Republican recalls. What is wrong with this picture? That info came out about the same time Kloppenburg didn’t go forward. So, it is true. This is their other hand. It makes me sick.
I did not realize the extent to which our state has been so corrupted until recently. Our judicial system is a farce. Kloppenburg and Sumi—get real. They are political hacks bought and paid for. The democrat senators that fled are bought and paid for by union thugs.
Republican senators are being recalled for a vote the dems didn’t like. Yet, the fleeing democrat senators get a temporary pass. Corruption run amok. They don’t even bother to hide it. It is so blatant. Sickening.
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