Exclusive: My Live KPFK Interview with now-former WI Supreme Court Candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg

Exclusive: My Live KPFK Interview with now-former WI Supreme Court Candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg

On my KPFK/Pacifica Radio show today (heard on Wednesdays at 3:30pm PT in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego & around the world on KPFK.org) I spoke live with WI Asst. Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg. It was her first interview since conceding the highly-contentious and incredibly close WI Supreme Court election and "recount" yesterday to incumbent Justice David Prosser.

Given the state media's shamefully bad coverage of the disastrous "recount", the interview may well be the only one, as short as it was, in which she was able to address accountability for the "cascade of widespread irregularities", as she described them during her concession speech, which plagued the state's certified results.

"How do you know," I asked her at one point during our conversation, "that, given the wild, widespread irregularities --- these wide open ballot bags, tamper-evident seals that were broken, serial numbers that were missing, scratched out, changed --- how do you know that those ballots that were counted during the recount process were actually the ballots that were cast by the voters on Election Day?"

Her disturbing but unavoidable answer: "At this point, we don't know. All we have to go on is the hand count, and the extent to which they're consistent with the tapes in the machines."

You can listen to my follow up, and much more of what she had to say about the election, the "recount", her still-pending request for an independent investigation of controversial Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, and the failure of the state's top election authority, the Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.), to assure that statutory security processes, meant to deter both malfeasance and malfunction, were actually followed...

AUDIO INTERVIEW, FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8551

just another one of those 'Democrats SHOULD HAVE' stories.

Her answer seemed like a cop-out to me. There must have been some serious pressure exerted on her to give in despite the many 'irregularities'.

But I'm sure we'll get a fair and impartial investigation by the Walker Administration. NOT.

REC.

...Kloppenburg is not a Democrat. She's an independent.

And thanks for the REC!

That puts it in another light. Then, on the other hand.

Thanks for the additional info, Brad.

is how is ANYBODY going to be able to trust ANY statewide election in Wisconsin ever again? If they need JUST enough votes to put Walker over the top in the recall election next year, what do you want to bet that they're found in Waukesha County? What about the six senatoral recall elections? Any of those areas have Republican certification clerks? Will you trust them? If so, WHY WOULD YOU TRUST THEM?

The electoral system is broken in Wisconsin and elsewhere in this country. Due to my political philosophy, I've never thought that it was "fair" (vote for capitalist candidate A or capitalist candidate B - there's your choice), but now even THAT limited franchise has proven itself to be a falsehood.

Extra electoral remedies anyone?