7,500 Reasons To Rejoice
By Mitch Berg
The voters of Wisconsin have spoken.
Even after two months of gnashing and thrashing and sniveling, The People of Wisconsin have reaffirmed last November’s results.
After the media and left (pardon my redundancy) all but declared it a Kloppenberg victory and referendum on Walker.
And it just goes to show the media – just because liberals swarm in Madison doesn’t mean an entire state has drunk the koolaid.
You’ve heard the news: corrected tallies put Prosser on top after a 7,500-vote swing.
Naturally, the Democrats are upset. It’s almost folklore; only Democrats benefit from mysterious and opaque swings in votes!
Kloppenburg supporters reacted with alarm, pointing out that Nickolaus had worked in the Assembly Republican caucus during the time that Prosser, a former Republican lawmaker, served as the Assembly speaker and that Nickolaus also had faced questions about her handling of elections as clerk.
In the liberal world, a public servant’s work in public service is “experience” for Democrats, and “evidence” against Republicans.
And show me a public servant that hasn’t “faced questions”.
“Wisconsin voters as well as the Kloppenburg (campaign) deserve a full explanation of how and why these 14,000 votes from an entire city were missed. To that end, we will be filing open records requests for all relevant documentation related to the reporting of election results in Waukesha County, as well as to the discovery and reporting of the errors announced by the county,” Kloppenburg campaign manager Melissa Mulliken said in a statement.
Yeah, Ms. Mulliken!
And while you’re at it, let’s get answers about all the irregularities in Hennepin County!
Oh, wait…
Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D-Kenosha) raised the possibility of an independent investigation over the recovery of the votes.
“This is a serious breach of election procedure,” he said. “We’re going to look further. She waited 24 hours to work this. And she waited until after she verified the results, making it that much more difficult to challenge and verify the results.”
‘We went over everything’
I suppose Wisconsin Voters should be happy Barca didn’t make his announcement from a hotel in Chicago.
Of course, not every Wisconsin Dem is chanting the party line. I’m adding some emphasis:
But at the news conference with Nickolaus, Ramona Kitzinger, the Democrat on the Waukesha County Board of Canvassers, said: “We went over everything and made sure all the numbers jibed up and they did. Those numbers jibed up, and we’re satisfied they’re correct.”
As a Democrat, she said, “I’m not going to stand here and tell you something that’s not true.”
Waukesha County Executive Dan Vrakas, who sat in on Nickolaus’ news conference, said voters can be confident in the results because “all the votes are in that office. If anyone wants to look at them and verify, they can.”
This is a great day for America.
April 8th, 2011 at 7:20 am
I read elsewhere that this was a Re-Thuglican dirty trick…Republicans purposely held back thousands of votes just to see the Democrats expend their reserves of ‘found’ votes which magically add up to just enough to win the election. Then when the Democrats think they have ‘won’ the election, the Republicans come over the top with thousands of votes many, many more than needed. As Dim in StP might say: If only the Republican establishment were that smart!
Here’s what I love about this- Ms. Kloppenburg and many other Democrats calling for bridge-building, saying the people have spoken, that this is a major defeat for the Walker/the anti-workin’ people Rethuglicans, etc. now having to reverse course.
Mary Katherine Ham said it best – “Small, state-wide election with vital national implications soon to have no national implications at all”.
April 8th, 2011 at 7:46 am
Mitch, you’re too late, Deegee already claimed victory over on Penisblog.
April 8th, 2011 at 8:03 am
It’s almost folklore; only Democrats benefit from mysterious and opaque swings in votes!
And that’s still true. All hail felicitous incompetence!
April 8th, 2011 at 8:05 am
Wisconsin! F#@% yeah!
And I hope the Republicans did purposely hold back thousands of votes. It’s about time they out-strategerized those election-stealing Democrats.
One less lunatic liberal sitting in a high court. The Sun shines brighter today.
April 8th, 2011 at 9:00 am
*snort*:
http://penigma.blogspot.com/2011/04/congrats-to-dems-on-wisconsin-supreme.html
April 8th, 2011 at 9:52 am
I had to go and pat Doggie on the back. Sweet.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:13 am
Like fish in barrel…
April 8th, 2011 at 10:19 am
What a wonderful day, the sun shines, the birds sing, home opener baseball, and a suicide watch on Kloppenberg.
“Naturally, the Democrats are upset.”
Please move the litter box, there’s an overwhelming smell of cat piss.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:26 am
I love DG’s phrase (before the discovery of the 7500 extra votes for Prosser) “Governor Walker is trying to claim this is not a referendum on his policies, but no one believes that – I doubt the Governor does, least of all.”
So…204 votes is all it takes to make a referendum now? I guess that’s enough for the left.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:42 am
You have to wonder how many mentally incompetent people had to be driven to the polls by government union workers. I’m guessing 204.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:55 am
If the unions had realized what was going on in that municipal office yesterday they would have bussed in hundreds or thousands of protesters and gotten friendly judges to stop the canvasser’s from meeting. They would have done anything to shut down the vote count until they could control the process.
It’s the “heads we win, tails you lose” attitude of the left. “Democracy” does not mean the people choose their leaders, it means “democrat wins regardless of how the people vote”.
We saw it in FL in 2000 and in Minnesota in 2008.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:55 am
The bad news in the Badger state is the Left is about out of Constitutional options. The good news it’s Five O’Clock somewhere. We won’t hear a peep from them until Monday afternoon.
April 8th, 2011 at 11:11 am
I think that the relative quiet from the left re the new winner in WI is because they still have not come up with a narrative that they think will be effective in delegitimizing the election. When they settle on it they will open up with both barrels.
As I write this very powerful people are doing everything they can do to dig up dirt on everyone involved in releasing the new numbers. I imagine Kitzenberg, as a Democrat who endorses the new numbers, will come under attack very shortly.
Kloppenberg could end this by conceding. We will shortly see how much integrity she has.
April 8th, 2011 at 11:16 am
I think that the relative quiet from the left re the new winner in WI is because they still have not come up with a narrative that they think will be effective in delegitimizing the election. When they settle on it they will open up with both barrels.
Yep. Scorched earth all the way at this point. They can’t lose after everything that has happened before.
April 8th, 2011 at 11:29 am
I think what the unions will do is re-load for the battle in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, et al. This is merely the first shot in the war. They’re unlikely to concede an inch. Intimidation is their gospel. Government is where they collect their largesse. We’ve told the 800-pound gorilla the buffet table is closed.
He won’t be happy.
April 8th, 2011 at 11:44 am
” Intimidation is their gospel.” OK, Let’s get ready to rumble!
April 8th, 2011 at 11:49 am
The unions would be in a much better position today if they had worked harder to keep fixed-benefit pensions for private sector jobs back in the 80’s. As it was, and very typical for unions, they arranged deals that kept the promise of benefits intact for their voting members while screwing everyone else.
If the average American worker was dependent on the type of pension plan many government workers enjoy this would be much less of an us-versus-them conflict.
There is a lesson here for Social Security and medicare. If enough voters see these programs as something they pay for, rather than something they benefit from, there will be hell to pay.
April 8th, 2011 at 11:58 am
Oh, hell has an enormous bill coming due, Terry. Even idiot Democrats are sarting to scratch their heads and mutter WTF?
April 8th, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Kloppenburg dodged a bullet. Had she won, and ruled against the new law, she’s done a serious breach of legal ethics by announcing how she’d rule on a case before she’d seen the details.
Which ought to get a lawyer disciplined or disbarred, no?
For that matter, I think her employer, the Wisconsin AG, ought to take a look at the legal ethics of his subordinate.
April 8th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
And just to put another nail or two in the “Nickolaus corrupted the vote count!” meme (which is already being banted about in the “reality based” community) voila!:
http://brookfield-wi.patch.com/articles/brookfield-gives-prosser-nearly-11k-votes
The Brookfield newspaper reporting, on April 6:
April 8th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Terry – Just saw Mickey Kaus is pointing to that too. I like his take on it – people who question this vote are the equivalent of birthers.
April 8th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
204 votes – ““Governor Walker is trying to claim this is not a referendum on his policies, but no one believes that – I doubt the Governor does, least of all.”
And this is from a libturd who screached that last November drubbing was not a referendum. Love them goalposts on rails.
April 8th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Nate Silver at NYT calls it incompetence rather than fraud. One of the liberal commenters on Silver’s piece somehow believes that counting these votes is “disenfranchising” people, LOL.
The “Reality Based” community never ceases to amuse.
April 8th, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Just like in Texas Hold ‘Em you gotta wait til the dealer turns the river card…
From the Milwaukee Journal – “In the city of Milwaukee, officials are reviewing ballots in a warehouse on the city’s north side, a process that will last into Friday, city election commission Executive Director Susan Edman said.”
Cheeseheads haven’t been this anxious about what they’ll find next since they searched Jeff Dahmer’s place.
April 8th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
I’ve seen the “Reality Based Community”, and it are us. Dog Gone’s complete absence from this thread being exhibit A.
April 8th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
Kerm – Good to see you back. I went over to Gog Don’s site you are all up in her comments section. Any reply from the Factchecker in Chief?
April 8th, 2011 at 3:56 pm
If I was an evil, but rational, Lefty, I would decide that the chance of disqualifying the Brookfield votes was slim to none. Therefore I would have to “find” enough votes to counter them, and, above all, stop the media from portraying Prosser as the victor — despite the fact that, as lefty, I worked very hard to get Kloppenberg declared the presumptive winner with a margin of only a few hundred votes.
Shut down the process of declaring a winner until you’ve got a legal and political team in place and source of votes to counter the Brookfield votes.
That’s what I would do.
April 8th, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Seen on twitter: “Everyone look towards WI, there’s a rainbow of evaporating hippy tears we can see in LA”
Schweet!
As to the penis blog, meh. Why would I want to go there when I can accurately guess what those mongrels are saying.
A. It’s not over (It is)
B. The GOP cheated (Squirt those pretty tears!)
C. Koch bought the election (I wish)
Am I close?
As to the cheating in Crow wing she’s been denying: “It’s not the same”
Right?
April 8th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
No, Sef. Doggie tucked tail and ran. But Pensmegma has developed a real ugly streak. Gee Mitch, you sure he’s still a “friend”? Good luck with that.
April 8th, 2011 at 7:54 pm
I wouldn’t take Pen seriously, Kermit. Like most liberals he is not nearly as smart as he thinks that he is.
I have a pretty good idea of the bounds of my knowledge. Liberals think that “knowledge” consists of citing a credentialed person who endorses your political POV.
The same people who screamed that Bush’s $300 billion deficits were going to bankrupt the nation don’t blink at Obama’s $1600 billion deficits, or, worse yet, think that eliminating the Bush tax cuts (~100 billion/year) will fix it.
April 9th, 2011 at 8:17 am
I went over and looked at Penigma. They aren’t taking it especially well. And it appears that Dog’s factchecking takes place at the DailyKos these days.