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Updates from Wisconsin

By Raheem Dawodu

With just two months until Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election, Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson holds a big fund-raising edge over challenger Randy Koschnick, according to news reports.

According to the Daily Cardinal, Abrahamson raised over $800,000 by the end of 2008, while her Koschnick, a district judge, had raised $14,000. Koschnick said in news reports that he has raised closer to $50,000.

In a potentially more significant development, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce group, along with two other groups that advertised heavily in the 2007 and 2008 campaigns,   announced that it will not advertise on behalf of Koschnick. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s “All Politics” blog. WMC spent $1.7 in ads favoring Michael Gableman, who unseated then-Justice Louis    Butler  last spring, and $2.2 million the year before for the victorious Annette Ziegler.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Jim Haney, president of WMC, said the group would be very “passive” in this year’s election:

In an interview, Haney said WMC’s board of directors made the decision to play only a “passive role” after meeting with both candidates. He said the group’s only involvement in the race will be to share both campaigns’ literature with WMC’s members.

“Everybody was aware that we were very high-profile in the earlier races and whether that influenced their thinking, maybe that made them nervous or uncomfortable, I don’t know,” he said. “But collectively, they moved rather quickly to decide we’ll just play this information dissemination role this time.”

In an interview, Koschnick acknowledged that WMC’s decision was a setback for his campaign.  However, he found a silver lining:

“I’m only going to be able to control my own campaign,” Koschnick added. “I’m doing my best to get the (more…)

Full post as published by The Gavel on February 07, 2009 (boomark / email).

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