Real Democratic recall candidates cruise to victory over fakes

Voters not impressed with GOP, costs of primaries, false Robo-calls and Voter ID requests at polls
Update: See also The Atlantic's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Wisconsin Recall Elections.

By Jessica Vanegeren at the Capital Times

None of the six placeholder or "fake" Democratic Senate candidates pulled off an upset victory during the first round of a historic recall election season in Wisconsin Tuesday. ...

Republicans took blistering criticism for their decision to put forward the fake candidates and force primary elections.

From Uppity Wisconsin - The Wisconsin Voter ID Law, which might also be called the Help Republicans Win Elections Act, hasn't even taken full effect yet but is already causing grief at the polls. Mischievous Republicans ostensibly enacted Voter ID to curb virtually non-existent voter fraud, using another of those GOP-designed "tools," designed to suppress the votes of people likely to vote for the other guys.

Joint Fin Committe Slips Anti-Union Provision into Budget after Midnight

Walker and the GOP's sneak government.

Walker, DOA Sec. Huebsch Back Down

From Mary Spicuzza (WSJ):

State Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said Thursday he thinks the law is in full force, but agreed to stop implementing it.

"While I believe the budget repair bill was legally published and is indeed law, given the most recent court action we will suspend the implementation of it at this time," Huebsch said. "DOA will continue to abide by the court orders, like the department has done all throughout this process."

Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, said the judge's latest order has "taken away their last excuse."

"I can only hope today's amended order is crystal clear enough for them to stop disregarding the rule of law," he said.

Rightwingers to Judge Sumi: Go Ahead, I Dare Ya

Wisconsin DOA Sec. Mike Huebsch

Update: Declaration: Wisconsin’s new collective bargaining law has not been published and is not in effect, a judge has ordered. Judge Maryann Sumi ordered Thursday morning that the law “has not been published within the meaning” of Wisconsin law and “is therefore not in effect.” (Spicuzza, WSJ)

Rightwing ideologues backstopped by billionaires and the national GOP believe they can do anything.

One scholarly Dane County Judge, Maryann Sumi, and the people of Wisconsin will likely prove them wrong this week.

"Department of Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said Wednesday he has a legal obligation to implement all laws passed by the Legislature, signed by Gov. Scott Walker and published into law." (Spicuzza, Barbour, and Treleven in WSJ)

This obligation exists of course despite the clear judicial order that Huebsch halt implementation of the anti-union scheme that does not have the force of law.

In some many words, the orders of a judge are irrelevant, in the view of Walker,  Huebsch, AG Van Hollen and the rest of the regime who decide what the law is.

Further implementation of 2011 Wisconsin Act 10 is enjoined, Judge Sumi made clear Tuesday. "Now that I've made my earlier order as clear as it possibly can be, I must state that those who act in open and willful defiance of the court order place not only themselves at peril of sanctions, they also jeopardize the financial and the governmental stability of the state of Wisconsin," Sumi said. ( Treleven and Spicuzza in WSJ)

The GOP regime has other ideas, one of which is that judicial orders are of no legal significance and no consequence.

Walker's Next Move as GOP Veers into McCarthyism: Attack Judge Sumi and Son as "Leftist"

Judge Sumi

Will Gov. Scott Walker and the Republicans act to defy the legal authority of a judge's ruling against the latest GOP move against the public?

No one knows.

What is known is that this is the most lawless and anti-public administration in Wisconsin history. And the Wisconsin Republican Party is the most ideological and dishonest since the Joe McCarthy era that today's GOP is apparently trying to emulate.

Illusory Tenant has a piece linking to a Dane County Republican press release [March 30] in which the party, upset with her rule-of-law ruling, accuses Judge Sumi of being a "leftist," having attended "cocktail parties held by leftists in Dane County," shopping at "organic, gourmet" food shops run by leftists, having a son who is a "leftist activist," and on and on.

The GOP does raise some questions.

When Tommy Thompson appointed Sumi to the bench in 1998 did he know about these leftist affiliations? Does the GOP have a list of accredited leftists in Dane County and the state of Wisconsin? Will the GOP legislature hold hearings on the leftists who have infiltrated our government?

And how about Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne?

Ismael Ozanne. What kind of name is that? Sounds similar to a character right out of the emissions of that 19th century leftist, Melville.

Maybe these leftists hold secret allegiance to leftists around the world. Maybe to terrorists?

Sumi is running unopposed for reelection to the Dane County Circuit Branch Two seat in next Tuesday's election.

The next step is indicated on Judge Sumi's calender [item 67]:

County   Time   Date   Location

Dane   08:30 am   04-01-2011   7th Floor, Courtroom 7B

Activity Case Number Case Caption
Injunction hearing 2011CV001244 Ismael R Ozanne vs. Jeff Fitzgerald et al

Party Attorney Name(s)
Ozanne, Ismael R