Just when the commentators credited Randy Koschnick as superior when compared to his two right wing predecessor candidates, Annette Ziegler in 2007, and Michael Gableman in 2008, the Jefferson County Circuit Judge smacked the entire state with a dose of reality.
It turns out that while Koschnick may be brighter, more articulate, and more honest about his conservatism than Ziegler and Gableman, he is just as capable of selective standards, not an admirable quality in a jurist.
As I watched his latest television advertisement, I paused to reflect about the nature of its offense. The content is not significantly different than the TV spots purchased on behalf of the Ziegler and Gableman campaigns:
- Abrahamson is a liberal
- She is an activist judge
- She takes campaign contributions from attorneys who appear before the Supreme Court
- She 'votes' to release sexual predators.
What is so curious about the Koschnick campaign effort is his torpedoing his conservative friends on the Supreme Court.
Annette Ziegler is the poster child for taking contributions from individuals with business before the Supreme Court. She took $42,296 from lawyers and lobbyists.
When you exclude her own money, the combination of funds she received from the financial service sector (banking, insurance, securities industry) and litigators represented over 20% of her campaign finances.
None of that include the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, that was funded through Wisconsin Manufactures and Commerce (WMC) on her behalf.
One has to wonder if Koschnick would like to join the millions of his fellow Wisconsinites in calling upon Ziegler to step down because of her tainted campaign contributions.