.@judgehagedorn too conservative even for conservatives: In a blow to conservatives, a national business group is staying out of the Wisconsin Supreme Court race https://t.co/sOKpbUUrQd

— John Adams (@DailyAdams) March 6, 2019

Via POLITICAL CAPITAL.

MADISON, Wis. — In response to calls from the family of the victims of sexual assault who Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce outed in a $1 million ad campaign for Michael Screnock, WMC has taken down the list of its board of directors from its website.

“The family of the children who were victims of sexual assault who WMC outed demanded WMC’s ad come down and in response WMC took down the names of its board of directors,” said Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now Executive Director. “This shows that in their desperation to try and win an election WMC knows it did something hideous and now they are trying to hide.”

Link to WMC Board of Directors page.

Via WMC Takes Down Board of Directors Page | One Wisconsin Now.

When it comes to figuring out what the electorate may look like for Tuesday’s Supreme Court election in Wisconsin, I think it’s instructive to look at three different sets of Wisconsin electorates.

1. The primary election in February.
2. The April election in 2017 – where Tony Evers easily won the School Superintendent race with a Dem-leaning electorate, and then contrast with the 2013 April election where now-Chief Justice Pat Roggensack cruised to a win with a GOP-leaning electorate. April 2016 is a bad example because of the much higher turnout due to contested presidential primaryies going on for both parties.
3. The November elections of 2016 and 2014, to give an idea of the difference between a November electorate and an April.

Via Jake’s Wisconsin Funhouse: What to look for in turnout for Tuesday’s SCOWIS election

While justices have been known to change while serving on a high court, most tend to conform to the record of their past legal career. Dallet’s career has been that of a mainstream prosecutor and judge who has been endorsed by more than 175 judges in Wisconsin. She seems most like the late moderate conservative justice Patrick Crooks, who was tough on crime, but parted with the Wisconsin Supreme Court on key issues like recusal rules and campaign coordination.

As for Screnock, he has already let us know he will emulate Gableman, an aggressively right-wing justice who operated as a rubber stamp for the conservatives who now rule this state. That’s how Screnock operated as a lawyer, and nothing in his campaign has suggested he sees any reason to change.

Via Murphy’s Law: The Strange Race for Supreme Court » Urban Milwaukee.

Justice Rebecca Bradley’s student writings on AIDS demonstrate a lack of compassion, and her response to their disclosure demonstrate a lack of remorse.

Via The trouble with Rebecca Bradley @ Isthmus.

Justice Rebecca Bradley, a candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, is getting killed in the media for one indiscretion after another. It’s like the old Chinese torture of death by a thousand cuts.

Via Dave Begel’s Blogs: Judge Rebecca Bradley facing the torture of death by a thousand cuts.

How is it possible that the writings which appeared in the Marquette University newspaper never came to the attention of her Republican buddies?  How did her ethical lapse in regards to her extramarital affair and the case surrounding it not register with those who wanted to promote her?

Could it be that Walker and Company were trying to pass a fast one over the public?

Or was Rebecca Bradley somehow able to use her womanly charm on a governor who had the power she needed to get a step up the legal ladder?  Did  she bat her eyes, or flip her hair back, or tell him much Ronald Reagan would be proud of his anti-union stands?

There has to be some explanation for the total lack of accountability as to how Bradley was able to get this far with such a troubling and tawdry past.   Voters need to know the truth.

Via Did Rebecca Bradley Use Womanly Charm On Scott Walker? @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS.

Before she became a state Supreme Court justice, Rebecca Bradley represented in a child placement case the former COO of the law firm where they both had worked — and with whom she’d had a romantic relationship.

Via Bradley extramarital affair, role in child placement surface @ JSOnline.

Steve Walters, senior producer at Wisconsin Eye, asked Kloppenburg to respond to an ad by a third-party group that includes a clip of Kloppenburg saying, “I never said I was tough on crime. Being tough on crime was not my message.” Kloppenburg swiftly denounced the ad saying the clip was 5 years old and implied it was not relevant to the current race. Moments earlier she had pointed to her opponent’s 24 year-old statements as evidence of why she isn’t the right choice for the state’s top court.

“Well, that is a clause taken out of context from 5 years ago,” Kloppenburg said.

Via Kloppenburg Spouted New Hypocrisy in MKE Wednesday @ Media Trackers.

Forget hate-filled articles that candidate Rebecca Bradley wrote as a student years ago. Much more important is how she handles that issue today. Much more important are the politically extreme groups in which she has actively participated as an adult. Much more important are the powerful lobbyists and dark money groups to whom she is indebted. Those are much better reasons to not vote for Rebecca Bradley on April 5.

Via Forget the Hate-Filled Articles @ Just Sayin’.

What troubles me, though, is how Bradley comes up with her views today — specifically, are her court decisions derived from precedents and research, or does she justify her decisions through politically conservative viewpoints consistent with the point in time she makes them in? Her recent political associations, which she hardly tries to hide, suggests it’s the latter.

I wrote about Bradley’s college opinions on Monday and explained that her words were troubling because they were very hate-filled. But I also explained my concerns that it seemed like her line of thinking — and in fact, her judicial philosophy — was more derived from her conservative views and what are popular viewpoints in conservatism today, rather than sound research, stare decisis and empirical evidence. – See more at: http://political-heat.blogspot.com/2016/03/rebecca-bradleys-opinions-may-have.html#sthash.303zdoPz.dpuf

Via Political Heat: Rebecca Bradley’s opinions may have changed, but my concerns still remain.

Via Scott Walker: Don’t Mean Nothing @ POLITICAL CAPITAL.

The revelations by One Wisconsin Now of Rebecca Bradley’s vile printed opinions against gay people and those afflicted with HIV/AIDS are bad enough, even if she wrote it while she was in college in 1992. First off, I graduated high school in 1992, the summer after Magic Johnson revealed he had caught HIV through unprotected heterosexual sex, and to say something like this about people with HIV/AIDS was way out of bounds back then.

Via Jake’s Economic TA Funhouse: Becky Bradley is where she is because she believes right wing fundie crap.

On Election Day voters can say how they feel about the tone of the election as much as they can over the issues.  The best way to let Bradley know her hate and bitterness is not the stuff that makes for Wisconsin values is to simply not vote for her.  Cast a ballot for someone else, or no one in the race.   Let your voice be front and center for how we want our candidates to behave as they ask us for the responsibility to lead.

If they can not respect us during the campaign what hope do we have after they are elected?

Via The Remedy For Rebecca Bradley’s Hate Speech @ CAFFEINATED POLITICS.