I'm one of the 10%ers, I plan on voting for Marla Stephens for our Supreme Court to replace Prosser

[bobthedrummer]

Anyone else?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Hell yes, Bob.

Reminds me--I gotta do an absentee vote. I'll be out of town for the election.

[bobthedrummer]

2. What's your take on her JR?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Better than Prosser, that's for sure.

I haven't exactly studied the issue, so I can't really give you an in-depth answer. My impression is that she's fairly liberal.

[ewagner]

4. Been getting her emails

Have to agree with JPR....she appears to be liberal...AND she does a lot of "quality control" work on juciciary...okay by me

put me in that 10%

[dragonlady]

5. What does the term 10%er mean in this case?

I've heard all three of the non-Prossers speak and any of them would be better. Right now I'm leaning toward Kloppenberg but still would like more information before settling on who to vote for.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. I think it refers to the 10% or so that actually vote in these SC elections.

Off-year, no glitzy contests, lots f people don't even notice them coming & going, & have no idea what the SC is about or how electoral outcomes might affect their lives. Lately the RW has been turning out their fanatics & dupes much more reliably than the left has been getting anyone to the polls, so we get all these wacko wingnut SC Justices.

[dragonlady]

9. Ah, yes

But then we always vote in any election that comes around. And I was so proud when dragondaughter voted in the first election after her 18th birthday--a judicial primary.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. If more people did that, we could take our state back.

It's not that all the liberals suddenly converted into droolers last November; it's that they didn't vote.

[bobthedrummer]

12. Yep.

[GillesDeleuze]

6. Opting out of public funding is a big no no for me

Courts are about process, and so should court elections.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. That's great, if you can keep the churches out of the elections.

The RW gets a lot of free mileage from the fundy pulpits.

[donaldr]

11. I'll be voting for Kloppenburg

I will not be voting for Marla Stephens in this race. I've heard both candidates speak and I know that if we truly want to get Justice Prosser out it will be Kloppenburg that can do it.

Kloppenburg is a prosecutor with the Department of Justice who has worked under Attorney General's from both parties. She is much less likely to be successfully attacked by special interest money.

Kloppenburg is also taking public financing, which puts her in line with the same funding Prosser is getting. I don't know how the Stephens campaign thinks there $25,000 they raced in January is the amount they need to beat an incumbent when he already got $100,000 for the primary and will get another $300,000 in the general. If you look at the finance reports, Kloppenburg got $24,000 in the final 3 weeks of December and as she stated when she spoke to our group, got 1,300 contributions from 52 counties in Wisconsin. With that kind of grassroots state-wide base she is the obvious choice to beat Prosser. I would like to know how many counties the Stephens camp has contributions from.

[HelenWheels]

13. Kloppenburg gets my vote.

She gave a talk at one of our County meetings and I was very impressed.