Litigation

Important political races won by the right people yesterday

By Tracy Coenen

Mike Gableman - Loophole Louie Butler was knocked off the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday. He can take his love of criminals and legal loopholes somewhere else. This is the first time in 40 years that a justice running for re-election has lost. But it was the perfect time…. swinging the votes back toward the right. Lefty groups like the Greater Wisconsin Committee and Wisconsin Education Association Council (teachers’ union) supported Butler.

Milele Coggs - Coggs defeated jailbird alderman Michael McGee (fond of referring to himself as “The Alderman”). The city of Milwaukee can now stop paying him his $70k salary plus auto allowance while he’s locked up for his crimes. Sadly, Coggs appeared completely clueless last night on television. It’s likely that she won largely on the name recognition of her family. I fear she has no idea what she’s going to do for her district, but at least ousting McGee was a step in the right direction. (more…)

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Full post as published by The FRAUDfiles Blog on April 02, 2008 (boomark / email).