Justice Prosser David Prosser, of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, is up for reelection. But according to the NYT, the race has turned into a referendum on Governor Scott Walker and his union-busting efforts. That really irks Justice Prosser and he made the following comments according to the Times:
“I feel like the victim of a drive-by shooting,” Justice Prosser, 68, said in an interview in which he described his record on the court as moderate. “Here I am, I’m walking along, I should win this race going away. But I mean, not if people aren’t thinking about what they’re doing.”
I am sympathetic to the Justice (although perhaps he mightn't have called his colleague, Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, a "total bitch" and threatened to "destroy" her).
But is this really what a victim of a drive-by shooting feels like? File this one next to "high tech lynchings."
And I beg people more talented than I to try to imagine how the Justice might tell this story in song. (e.g., "I'm a mean ass Justice on the WSC…")
Prosser is indignant that the electorate isn't indifferent to the race, as it usually in Supreme Court races. Apparently he's entitled to apathy.
Prosser was a former Republican representative, appointed to the bench by a Republican governor, who never faced a race without the advantage of incumbency. Now that the electorate is interested, he compares himself to the victim of a drive-by shooting? Could he come across as any more entitled and callous?
And what, exactly, is he complaining about? He's got a good opponent, Joanne Kloppenburg. She, unlike Prosser whose background was purely political, has been an AAG for 20+ years, under both Republican and Democrat AGs.
And Shirley Abrahamson, the Chief Justice Prosser called a bitch, is one of the most respected State Supreme Court justices in the country.
Wonderful guy.