Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Rebecca Dallet in April can defeat the Scott Walker/GOP/WMC/NRA hand-picked cipher and rubber stamp Michael Screnok for a 10-year State Supreme Court term.
Progressive candidates - - Justices Shirley Abrahamson and Ann Walsh Bradley, US Senator Tammy Baldwin, President Barack Obama (twice), State Superintendent of Instruction Tony Evers (3 times), and Secretary of State Doug La Follette (9 times) - - and others have won Wisconsin statewide elections.
It will be a challenge, certainly.
The far-right, whether it be the Wisconsin GOP or the WMC or 'independent' groups with deceptively-generic names that gather up dark money, saturate media with ads and vanish after election day will have a surplus of dollars to try and elevate Screnock from obscurity and irrelevance to a seat on the State's highest court.
So Dallet is up against the establishment, awash in cash, which expects to govern without interruption. The Citizens United decision increased its ballot-box buying power. The Trump/Ryan tax bill gave it more disposable dollars to invest in candidates who will carry their water and a heihgtened advantage to protect.
Dallet will get advice from everyone. I'll keep unsolicited few paragraphs mine short.
If I were Dallet, I'd run openly and happily against these special interests and their corrupting ubiquity.
I would tell every voter I met that "Justice" is both a title and a democratic society's number one goal, that I'd be a voice for justice on the Supreme Court for the everyday citizen because the wealthy and powerful and wired-in already have a majority on the Court and across the landscape.
I'd say it was wrong that some of the most-influential and monied special interests in Wisconsin which spent heavily on Screnok during the primary have been allowed to write the rules that permit Justices to hear cases in which their campaign committee donors are involved.
This is not a mere matter of interest solely to lawyers and judges.
I'd ask voters how they would feel if the refs who worked Green Bay Packer games were allowed to take take money from opposing team owners, that the officials were the ones who dreamed up the privilege - - and that now voters had a chance to hire a ref who'd help clean up that mess.
Then I'd write Dallet a check - - which I am doing now - - and wish her luck, as she's now in the sights of a powerful, self-interested, take-no-prisoners machine (see Louis Butler, Mary Burke) that will do what ever it thinks it needs to keep a chokehold on the state's highest court coordinated with Walker and the state legislature's GOP majority.
Progressive candidates - - Justices Shirley Abrahamson and Ann Walsh Bradley, US Senator Tammy Baldwin, President Barack Obama (twice), State Superintendent of Instruction Tony Evers (3 times), and Secretary of State Doug La Follette (9 times) - - and others have won Wisconsin statewide elections.
It will be a challenge, certainly.
The far-right, whether it be the Wisconsin GOP or the WMC or 'independent' groups with deceptively-generic names that gather up dark money, saturate media with ads and vanish after election day will have a surplus of dollars to try and elevate Screnock from obscurity and irrelevance to a seat on the State's highest court.
So Dallet is up against the establishment, awash in cash, which expects to govern without interruption. The Citizens United decision increased its ballot-box buying power. The Trump/Ryan tax bill gave it more disposable dollars to invest in candidates who will carry their water and a heihgtened advantage to protect.
Dallet will get advice from everyone. I'll keep unsolicited few paragraphs mine short.
If I were Dallet, I'd run openly and happily against these special interests and their corrupting ubiquity.
I would tell every voter I met that "Justice" is both a title and a democratic society's number one goal, that I'd be a voice for justice on the Supreme Court for the everyday citizen because the wealthy and powerful and wired-in already have a majority on the Court and across the landscape.
I'd say it was wrong that some of the most-influential and monied special interests in Wisconsin which spent heavily on Screnok during the primary have been allowed to write the rules that permit Justices to hear cases in which their campaign committee donors are involved.
This is not a mere matter of interest solely to lawyers and judges.
I'd ask voters how they would feel if the refs who worked Green Bay Packer games were allowed to take take money from opposing team owners, that the officials were the ones who dreamed up the privilege - - and that now voters had a chance to hire a ref who'd help clean up that mess.
Then I'd write Dallet a check - - which I am doing now - - and wish her luck, as she's now in the sights of a powerful, self-interested, take-no-prisoners machine (see Louis Butler, Mary Burke) that will do what ever it thinks it needs to keep a chokehold on the state's highest court coordinated with Walker and the state legislature's GOP majority.
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