Report: Wisconsin's Judicial Elections Are Among Nation's Nastiest
Given what I have read, this is not surprising, almost all politics in WI right now are among the nastiest in the nation. This phase the state is in cannot end soon enough but I see it persisting for a while.
http://wuwm.com/post/report-wisconsins-judicial-elections-are-among-nations-nastiest
A recent report puts Wisconsin in its "Hall of Shame" for the nasty nature of its state judicial campaigns, thanks to outside money and political pressure.
"The New Politics of Judicial Elections" report, published this past October by the nonpartisan group Justice at Stake, studies how state judicial campaigns are growing increasingly polarized and influenced by funding from special interests.
The report says the attack ads bought by the Greater Wisconsin Committee against Justice David Prosser in 2011 "exemplified this race to the bottom" in judicial election campaigns. The "mudslinging" ads aired 1,089 times over 13 days in the 2011 election.
Wisconsin is also featured as a case study in the report, which says the politicization and influence of outside money is undermining public confidence in the court....
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