Political dye jobs can only cover so much. Running in the officially non-partisan race this spring for Supreme Court Justice is one overt Democrat, Linda Clifford, one apparent independent, criminal defense attorney Joseph Sommers, and one ashamed-to-be-Republican, Annette Ziegler.
Annette Ziegler? Isn't she the one whose campaign's website had her photoshopped in front of multiple county courthouses with the same address, providing fodder for much-needed snarky fun all over the Wisconsin blogs?
...this post is all about Mark Graul, who cannot be called anything but Republican, having worked for Mark Green's congressional office before engineering Green's spectacular loss to a relatively unpopular incumbent. Graul is working for Ziegler. It was Graul, for example, who had to explain that it was just some over-eager staffer who did the photoshopping we all had a good larf about. Graul is trying madly to spin his candidate's partisan history:
Ziegler's campaign adviser Mark Graul, who was the campaign manager for the Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green, denied that the race would be partisan. He said Ziegler had a conservative view on judicial philosophy, which means she does not intend to legislative (sic) from the bench.(...) Graul said he didn't know whether Ziegler has a history of voting for Republican candidates.
That's laughable. Either Graul has no frickin' clue who he's working for, or he's lying through his teeth.
...I'm asking for the media to notice when Graul is lying to them about his candidate's supposed non-partisan nature. I'm asking Graul himself to stop the lying, since it only makes him look stupid--or like a liar.
Mostly, I'm asking for someone, somewhere, to notice, perhaps, that while Linda Clifford is completely upfront and open of her partisan past, Annette Ziegler seems to be so ashamed of hers that she'll scrub her website and send out lackeys to lie for her.
I know it's only January, and I know we're concentrating on Bush's Iraq occupation debacle, and on the new Congress' struggle to reverse years of corruption, but this seat in the Wisconsin Supreme Court is a key swing vote. Should a hurried half-assed AP story be all we know about the race?
- Barry Orton
Paul -- interesting blog. I stumbled on it looking for stuff on Peter Sacks. But watch the typo at the top of the Jan 8, listing!
Posted by: Danny J. Boggs | January 12, 2007 at 01:47 PM
Danny, thanks for the tip. Keep in touch. Hope things are going well.
Posted by: Paul | January 30, 2007 at 08:56 PM
Paul--Thanks for the commentary on Annette Ziegler. I have been surfing the net to obtain info on Ziegler, Clifford, and Sommers in order to be able to cast my vote responsibly.
Your hatchet job on Ziegler was just what I needed to see in order to confirm that she will receive my vote. If you don't endorse her, I know she's the right person for the job.
Thanks again.
Dave Meyer
Posted by: Dave Meyer | February 19, 2007 at 04:49 PM
I FULLY AGREE WITH DAVE MEYER! I AM AN INDEPENDENT AND I SM REALLY SICK AND TIRED OF THE DEMOCRATE HACKS JUST SCREWING UP A PARTY OF GOOD POEPLE. I REALLY BELIEVE THAT THESE HACKS ARE MAKING IT LOOK AS THOU ALL DEMOCRATS ARE HATERS OF AMERICA AND ANYTING THAT IS'NT TOTALY LIBERAL.
Posted by: M C BOOTH | March 19, 2007 at 03:52 PM