Kloppenburg has filed for a recount!

[highplainsdem]

Just posted this in LBN, too, story from WKOW:

http://www.wkow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14482946

MADISON (WKOW) -- JoAnne Kloppenburg for Supreme Court Justice campaign has just arrived at the Government Accountability Board's office to file papers for a recount.

The campaign plans to hold a news conference at 4:00 Wednesday afternoon.

Kloppenburg campaign staffers have put up campaign signs as the backdrop at the news conference.

The campaign has until 5:00 p.m. to request a recount in the Supreme Court election.

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[EFerrari]

1. Woohoo!

That's a good first step. Challenging the sonuvabitches.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. :>)

:bounce:

[shraby]

3. w00t!!!!! Now, is it a HAND recount?

[pnwmom]

6. In order to get a hand recount, you have to convince a judge

that there is evidence a hand recount will change the results. So . . . I doubt it, not at this point. But if the machine recount unearths enough problems . . . .

[NEOhiodemocrat]

4. Thanks!

Just the info I was getting on to find.

[pnwmom]

5. GOOD NEWS!!! n/t

[PCIntern]

7. good! Make 'em sweat... k and r n/t

[patrice]

8. I'm glad!!!

[madrchsod]

9. good news!

[aquart]

10. Good.

[pacalo]

11. Good news!!!

[lunatica]

12. Yay!

[Terra Alta]

13. great news!

Glad to see she is still fighting these scum!!

[spanone]

14. k&r...

[Luminous Animal]

15. Good!

[Matariki]

16. Best news of the day!!

[highplainsdem]

23. Definitely!

:woohoo:

[liberalla]

17. Woo hoo! I'm so glad they are pushing this!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Casandia]

18. So glad! Fight the good fight Judge Kloppenburg!

[highplainsdem]

19. Watch LIVE at WKOW.com - popup live stream, but requires Silverlight

[slackmaster]

20. I'm glad she chose to exercise her right to a recount, but I must make a few dismal predictions.

1. The recount won't change the outcome in a substantial way. The numbers will be different but the result won't change.

2. Few people will gain any confidence in the integrity of the election process.

3. JK will be forever tarred in future elections as the one who caused a bunch of public money to be "wasted" on a "pointless" recount.

I think I'd demand a recount if I was in her position too.

[lunatica]

31. You might be wrong

and that would be cool! But point #3 is definitely wrong. Democrats will remember that she did the right thing.

Not everyone is a teabagger or a republican.

[slackmaster]

32. The issue is non-partisan, independent voters who don't vote for a party

Some of them will be put off by the amount of money that the recount costs, unless Kloppenburg actually ends up winning in which case she'll rightly be hailed as a heroine of fair and open elections.

[pintobean]

33. I agree with all you posted

I also think it was a lose-lose situation for her. Losing independents is better than losing the Democrats.

[Odin2005]

21. YAY!!!

[Melissa G]

22. Yes!!!

:bounce:

[coffeenap]

24. Yay!!

Setting the example, go her!! :)

[TroglodyteScholar]

25. They had better recount the whole fucking state.

How many other stooges did the Walker camp have tweaking numbers for them?

[senseandsensibility]

26. Now the real work begins

This is great news, but as I saw on another thread: Count the paper ballots by hand in public!

[deminks]

27. She also calls for a special investigator for Waukesha Co.

:applause:

[madmax]

41. Wasn't that great.

:applause: Very important, I'm glad she included that. :bounce:

[Canuckistanian]

28. Good!

Make Prosser sweat.

[lunatica]

29. kick

[highplainsdem]

35. Thanks!

[malaise]

30. Great news

Rec

[pintobean]

34. k/r

[Imagevision]

36. I hope they find someone they can trust... to do the recount!

[iwishiwas]

37. Wonderful youtube video of the press conference here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=575722&mesg_id=575722

[Generic Other]

38. If Prosser hates it so much the better

Gloves off. Make them feel hard fists.

[GreenTea]

39. ActBlue - Five or ten bucks to WI recount....

https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/wiscourtrecount?refcode=thermometer

[mimitabby]

40. i just donated and i'm not from Wisconsin

[Blue Owl]

42. Oh it's on, baby

Hey Karl Rove -- GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU GODDAMNED SACK OF SHIT.