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Article: STATE SUPREME COURT; Appointing justices; After two nasty campaigns that have harmed the credibility of Wisconsin's highest court, it's time to change the way that the state selects justices.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2008
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Justice Shirley Abrahamson is up for re-election to the state
Supreme Court next year. And our guess is that if you felt like
taking a shower after this year's race for the court seat won by
Michael Gableman, you might want to invest in an industrial-sized
bathtub for next year's election.
After two campaigns in two years marked by sleazy ads, empty
rhetoric and issues often hardly related to the actual work of the
court, expect more of the same in 2009. And it won't matter very
much who Abrahamson's opponent is or that both candidates may be
people of integrity without a vicious bone in their bodies. Ads from
third parties have become such a large part of the campaign process
that the ...