May 5, 2011

Kloppenburg winning the optics

Sympathetic as kicking a puppy
Gets 18 ballots of cloistered Cistercian nuns disqualified.

Lookin' good. Is it time for our side to disown her yet?

Even the MKE Journal-Sentinel sat up and took notice:
The State Supreme Court recount has come to this ...
That's a news lead (i.e., the last place you'd expect editorializing).

Hence: "Optics."

Alternate headline: Prosser sweeps the illegal nun vote

By the way, among all the many speakers at last weekend's Democratic Party of Wisconsin Founder's Day dinner, not a one of them mentioned the Supreme Court election. I wonder why.

Probably because it's just an unwelcome distraction at this point.

16 comments:

Other Side said...

Well, it is the law.

illusory tenant said...

Yep. It just looks terrible.

Other Side said...

Oh, I agree. I posted on it earlier this morning.

gnarlytrombone said...

It just looks terrible

Absolutely. But more than a little whiff of hypocrisy from the intellectual giants clamoring for DNA tests to "secure integrity of the vote."

illusory tenant said...

No kidding.

gnarlytrombone said...

Maybe we should just pass out holy habits in the central city.

illusory tenant said...

I heard Listecki is firing a cannonball in their honor.

Other Side said...

DNA testing? You're kidding, right?

illusory tenant said...

Touch of hyperbole there, I reckon.

Anonymous said...

If these had been absentees from the central city of Milwaukee does anyone have any doubts that Prosser's lawyers would have challenged the ballots?

I do wish this would just go away. Since day one Kloppenburg's campaign team have been living in la la land.

illusory tenant said...

Funny thing is Prosser was defending these ones.

Other Side said...

Color me naive at times.

illusory tenant said...

Happens to the best of us.

gnarlytrombone said...

DNA testing? You're kidding, right?

Watch as conspiracy theories about fake IDs proliferate exponentially.

"Safeguarding voter confidence," sez Justice Stevens.

Anonymous said...

Blood tests for voting?

You can't vote in a district that your grandfather never voted in?

Civics tests?

What's next from the great minds at ALEC?

Free Lunch said...

And the Republicans in Wisconsin's legislature want to make it harder for people to vote. I want to see a recount that says that the votes idiots in Walkersha County were all not counted because they elected someone too stupid to follow the law.