Wisc: Repug Judge Hires Koch-Allied Atty For Recount; Tea Party Express Recruits Recount Volunteers

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from AlterNet:




Wisc: Republican Judge Hires Koch-Allied Attorney For Recount; Tea Party Express Recruits Recount Volunteers


Last week, incumbent Justice David Prosser hired James Troupis, the same attorney retained by the Koch-funded Wisconsin Prosperity Network in a case challenging restrictions on political advertising that is currently before the court, to look out for his interests in the recount now underway in Wisconsin that will determine the final outcome of the April 4 race for a seat on the state Supreme Court. Today, Tea Party Express, the group and PAC created and run by GOP operative Sal Russo, sent out a breathlessly-worded e-mail calling for volunteers, especially attorneys.

The stakes in the recount are especially high since the passage of draconian anti-labor and anti-safety net laws passed by the state legislature in March -- laws that are being appealed by opponents. Although the current court will likely hear those cases before the new justice is seated, the state is so politically polarized that the state's high court could be instrumental in determining the outcome of not just future legislation, but cases concerning election law.

On April 6, a day after Democrat Joanne Kloppenburg declared victory over the incumbent, the Republican Prosser, by a razor-thin margin, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, also a Republican, announced she had mistakenly failed to convey results of an additional 7,582 votes for Prosser. Kloppenburg called for the recount that began today statewide. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/574503/wisc%3A_republican_judge_hires_koch-allied_attorney_for_recount%3B_tea_party_express_recruits_recount_volunteers/

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1. James Troupis says there are hundreds coming in from across the country who have been volunteering

for the last couple of weeks. James Troupis https://bluecheddar.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/video-of-jim-troupis-on-wisconsin-recount

Online response to Prosser picking up ten new votes:

"A week ago, when asked about meeting with Walker after the election Prosser was quoted by JSOnline as saying ""The idea that I would go to the governor's office is just patently untrue. There is not a shred of evidence. That is pure malice."

"Tonight on Madison TV station WKOW, they played an audio recording of Prosser giving an interview somewhere; he said that maybe he DID stop by the Governor's office, to ask for some souvenir pens for some visitors.:

Even if that's all there was to it, you'd think that a lawyer - not to mention a judge, not to mention a supreme court justice - would know that that pretty much qualifies as more than "a shred of evidence".
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/120914859.html


The judge appointed by Waukesha county executive Dan Vrakas to take county clerk Kathy Nickolaus place was a corporate council for waukesha before he became a judge... He retired in 2009. This is about all I could find on him.... I'm curious about his background...