Jay, who has lived in the Waukesha area for nearly 20 years, is an active volunteer who serves on numerous local boards and committees. He’s married to Colleen with three kids having gone through the Waukesha schools. He is the VP of a local distribution company and currently serves on several area Boards.
Ask yourself, right now, if you know how much the 2 recent State Supreme Court candidates spent on campaigning?
If you answered…”Possibly $6,000,000.00 ?”, you would be correct!
The priorities within this State are upside down! This election provided some of the ugliest, name-calling, back-stabbing, mud-slinging, and negatively-run tactics ever witnessed. Neither of these 2 “reputable” candidates deserved to win a position on the State’s most powerful court. If you believed either woman’s ads, the other was unsuitable to be a dog-catcher… much less a judge.
Are we, the voters to blame? The apologists and strategists for Ziegler and Clifford would have you believe it’s our fault that they have to “do the things they do”. After all, it’s all about winning. Upon reflection, it is amusing how quickly and how adept these people were (with their negative campaigning) at “crawling into the mud and wrestling with each other like happy hogs on a warm summer day.” They almost seemed at home there…
$6,000,000.00 for an election where most of us will truly never know how the outcome affects us personally! And for perspective, $6,000,000.00 would have staved off cuts for 2 years to the Waukesha School District: Home of 13,000 of our students…After swallowing hard on how much positive impact that could have had, two words come to mind – Absurd and disgusting…
I proudly voted in our local elections.
I did not vote for either State Supreme Court Justice. It is the only way I know to send a message to the people running for office that some of us common voters still care about personal integrity and reason.
