Prosser's honorary Co-chair left campaign March 31 citing "disturbing distemper"

[deminks]

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_4bf3b472-5c06-11e0-8a29-001cc4c03286.html

Less than a week before Tuesday's election for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, former Democratic Gov. Patrick Lucey on Thursday resigned as honorary co-chair of Justice David Prosser's re-election campaign and endorsed his opponent, state Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg.

Lucey said in a statement that he has followed Prosser's campaign "with increasing dismay and now alarm," adding that "Prosser has lost that most crucial of characteristics for a Supreme Court Justice — as for any judge — even-handed impartiality."

Lucey also cited Prosser's "disturbing distemper and lack of civility that does not bode well for the High Court in the face of demands that are sure to be placed on it in these times of great political and legal volatility."

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This was one week before the election. The election where 14,000 votes were 'found' just in time to give Prosser the 'win'.

[sufrommich]

1. It's going to come out that this guy is a full-on violent nut.

The tide is coming in on this guy.

[Historic NY]

13. Sounds like Judge Francis Rayford....from

"And justice for all". :crazy:

[Le Taz Hot]

2. Question:

Why was former DEMOCRATIC Gov. Patrick Lucey "honorary" co-chair of REPUBLICAN David Prosser's re-election campaign?

[deminks]

4. Good question. More (cough) bipartisanship? Glad he came to his senses.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Distemper? Closer to rabies, I'd say. nt

[get the red out]

5. My dog's been vaccinated for that

Too bad this judge wasn't.

[Buns_of_Fire]

11. And I'd lay odds your dog is better behaved, too! :) nt

[mopinko]

6. alzheimers

who was the guy who spoke at the republican convention who was always a good dem, but flipped out? zell something? same thing.

[RufusTFirefly]

7. Good hypothesis. I had a similar idea

By the way, you're thinking of Zell Miller.

[mod mom]

8. Zell Miller was a mean spirited racist. Remember when he challenged Tweety to a duel?

:eyes:

[mopinko]

9. but he wasn't always like that.

he was a good man and a good dem all his life. dementia leads to a loosing of inhibitions, and a retreat to our lizard brains.
i have instructed my family to shoot me if i start to get like that.

[unblock]

10. zill miller, and i don't know about him always being a "good" democrat

he was always a conservative democrat, and may have been a "good" democrat by georgia standards.

but once on the national scene, he was pretty much always a very conservative, pro-republican jerk.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. In Georgia, his nickname was "Zig-Zag Zell"

As I recall, he was always maybe a can or two short of a six-pack...

[JHB]

14. Pell Mell Zell?

[pscot]

15. K&R