WI: County GOP press release mocks "leftish" Judge Sumi and "lefty" Dane County

[iwishiwas]

Dane County is where Madison, WI is located.
Once again, the Walker Repug poodles are making fools of themselves.

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County GOP press release mocks "leftish" Judge Sumi and "lefty" Dane County


SHAWN DOHERTY | The Capital Times | [e-mail] madison.com | (63) Comments | Posted: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:15 pm



A press release from the Dane County Republican party ridiculing Judge Maryann Sumi caught my eye this morning because of how, well...I'm searching for the right adjective here...snotty? clever? whiny? edgy? sarcastic? childish? it was.

Written as a tongue-in-cheek apology to Judge Sumi for an earlier attack from the party that blasted her for holding up the publication of Governor Scott Walker's controversial "budget-repair" bill, today's missive pretends to sympathize with Sumi for how hard it must be for her to live in Madison and do her job right.

"Judge Sumi is a leftist living in Dane County," the release says. "Her friends are leftists living in Dane County. Her son is a left wing activist in Dane County. She goes to cocktail parties held by leftists in Dane County. She shops at organic gourmet foods shops run by leftists living in Dane County. If she were to enforce the law of Wisconsin and to do what was in the best interest of the people of the state of Wisconsin, she'd be exiled from her lifestyle. She'd lose her friends!"

I called Jeff Waksman, the guy who wrote this press release and a party spokesman, to see what he was up to. I work for a paper considered to be a "lefty" publication, so I was afraid he might not talk to me. Or he might ask me if I eat organic strawberries. (I do, but I eat strawberries with pesticides on them, too.) But he didn't. I think he was maybe even happy to get my call, because that's what he was after when he wrote the press release, he tells me---attention. Most press releases are unbelievably boring and he wanted this one to stand out, which it sure did. "It's on the Rachel Maddow website right now," he says, proudly..................................

[DJ13]

1. Its like they're daring her to throw the book at them

If I was her, I would.

And I would make it hurt so badly they wont try and undermine the judicial branch ever again.

[Tx4obama]

2. Judge Sumi was appointed by a republican. n/t

[iwishiwas]

3. yes, but she was upset Tuesday and I hope this angers her more.

[Gman]

4. she's at a point where she is either a judge upholding the law or not

she either does what a judge does, or there is no more law and judicial authority.

[iwishiwas]

6. Seriously, -you are right. And this is getting scary--.

[bluestateguy]

5. Then I guess we have an ultraliberal US Supreme Court

Assuming that they all live in Washington D.C. and liberal counties in Virginia like Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax.

[tinymontgomery]

7. Question, can I use the ignoring of a court order

like walker as an appeal if I don't show up? You get my drift on this?

[elfin]

8. it seems the "L" in lefty and liberal now stands for --

Law abiding. As opposed to the "C" in conservative now standing for Contempt of Court.