Ron Johnson wins senate race!

Sen. Ron Johnson trails Feingold by only one point in new Marquette Law Poll

This is an amazing development.  RJ was down ... I think double digits at one point.  He was certainly late to the ball getting his campaign going.  This is the most crucial election in Wisconsin in 2016 (sorry presidential race).

US Senate race in WI: New Marquette Law School Poll finds 45% for Russ Feingold, 44% for Ron Johnson. #mulawpoll

— MULawPoll (@MULawPoll) November 2, 2016

(Audible reaction among audience to unveiling of one point difference in Senate race. ) #mulawpoll

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Now That Old Comments About Abortion Are Fair Game, Here's Russ Feingold Endorsing Infanticide

In their quest to review and scrutinize every word a young Rebecca Bradley wrote while in college, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel went big with a headline "In college, Bradley likened abortion to Holocaust, slavery."
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Now that we know that Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editors and reporters are really interested in the abortion views of prominent Wisconsin politicians from the 1990's, perhaps they'll get around to posting big headlines about former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold endorsing the right to infanticide.

On September 26, 1996, Senator Russ Feingold was asked by former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum if the right to an abortion still existed even if a baby were partially or fully delivered. Here is the exchange.

continue at Right Wisconsin

Let us not forget that this same infanticide advocate was a paid professor at one Wisconsin Catholic college.

Infanticide Feingold says Catholic Marquette Univ. asked him to return next year

They must think we Catholics are suckers.

When Russ Feingold represented Wisconsin in the Senate, he voted for taxpayer funding of abortion and opposed any ban on gruesome practice of partial-birth abortion.

Thankfully, last November, the voters in Wisconsin said they didn’t want him anymore.

Ah, but have no fear! Marquette Law gave Russ a call. As I mentioned earlier this year: Marquette Law hired a man as a teacher who voted to warp our laws against defending little children in the womb.

To the disappointment of liberal Democrats, Russ Feingold announced this morning that he won’t be challenging Scott Walker in a race for governor nor will he run for the Senate seat vacated by retiring Democrat Herb Kohl.

Well, good.

But guess what he cited as a reason not to run?

Teaching law during the spring semester at Marquette University Law School was a joy. The Marquette Law School is a thriving academic institution situated in a beautiful new building, Eckstein Hall. I found my time with the dean, staff, faculty, and especially the students at Marquette to be a terrific first experience in teaching law. I am pleased that I have been asked to return to teach full-time this fall and look forward to doing so.

more at CatholicVote

You can listen to Mr. Feingold support infanticide here.

Wisconsin US senator Herb Kohl(and strong abortion supporter) retires

Could Wisconsin have two mostly pro-life senators?

U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) said Friday that he would not run for a fifth term in the U.S. Senate.

Kohl, who is 76, made the announcement at a news conference in his Senate office in Milwaukee. His departure from politics is certain to set off a wild scramble among both Democrats and Republicans to run for the seat he has held since 1989.

Kohl said his health was good, and he had no intention of retiring from public life.

Kohl said he had deliberated on whether to run again or not for a few weeks. Asked if he would have won had he decided to seek re-election to a fifth term, Kohl said, 'Oh, sure."

Kohl described the current political landscape in Wisconsin as "toxic," but said it did not factor in his decision.

Kohl’s decision serves as a political blow to Democrats, adding one more seat to a growing number the party has to defend in 2012. Republicans have never come close to defeating Kohl since he was first elected in 1988, and given his political track record and his personal wealth, he would start as a heavy favorite to win re-election next year.

 Full Story JSOnline

Petition in protest of Marquette University Feingold Hire

Despite his 100% pro-abortion record from NARAL, the former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold was invited to join the faculty of Marquette University, a Catholic institution, as a visiting professor of law. The event is understandably causing scandal.

According to the record, Senator Feingold not only supported the grisly procedure known as partial birth abortion but also favors same-sex “marriage” and embryonic stem cell destruction.

However, Marquette Law School Dean Joseph D. Kearney attempts to explain the appointment away: “While I do not doubt that some of his views are controversial, or, still less, suggest that all of them are right, an institution of legal education is especially well suited to explore multiple dimensions of such issues.”

Students naturally look up to their teachers and teachers who support the killing of innocent unborn children – as is the case here – are inappropriate educational role models in any school, not to mention a Catholic university.

Sign it at TFP Student Action

Pro-Life Wisconsin: Why all the Feingold fuss?

Why all the fuss over a law school professor, you ask?

For starters, Marquette University identifies itself as a “Catholic and Jesuit” university.  The Catholic Church opposes abortion in all cases. An institution that identifies itself as Catholic but strays from Catholic principles only furthers pro-abortion attempts to create division where there is none.

Feingold is hardly Marquette’s first controversial professor, however. Two current Marquette professors are also on the Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin board – Jacqueline Boynton and Daniel Maguire.

Jacqueline Boynton is an adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School and an ex-officio member of PPWI’s board.

Daniel Maguire is a tenured professor in the theology department at Marquette and an emeritus member of PPWI’s board. Maguire’s views on Catholicism and abortion resulted in Archbishop Dolan banning Maguire from all Archdiocesan churches.

Feingold’s appointment is hardly a surprise to anyone familiar with Marquette, but why do we content ourselves with sighing and shaking our heads at news such as this, rather than demanding more from “Catholic” universities?

In January 2010, the Marquette Law School included Planned Parenthood in its list of community organizations recommended to students. Read an article from Catholic Culture here. Planned Parenthood has since been removed from that listing.

As the Cardinal Newman Society blog notes, "Pope John Paul II’s apostolic constitution on Catholic universities, Ex corde Ecclesiae, stipulates, 'All teachers and administrators, at the time of their appointment, are to be informed about the Catholic identity of the institution and its implications, and about their responsibility to promote, or at least to respect, that identity'."

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Marquette President Robert Wild, SJ responds to critics on Feingold hire

My emphasis

----- Original Message -----
From: Wild S.J., Robert
To:
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2011 3:36 PM
Subject: FW: Scandal continues in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee--Pro-death Russ Feingold on staff of so-called "c"atholic Marquette University

Dear Ms. X:

Thank you for your message regarding the Marquette University Law School’s appointment of former United States Senator Russ Feingold as a Visiting Professor of Law. Senator Feingold will teach an elective course, “Current Legal Issues: The U.S. Senate,” to upper-level law students. The course will deal with institutional issues facing the Senate, the way the Senate interfaces with the Constitution and the Supreme Court, as well as the relationship between the Senate and the executive branch. His current commitment is to teach for one semester, with the option to extend it by mutual agreement.

Senator Feingold is almost uniquely qualified to teach such a course. He earned his undergraduate degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a former Rhodes Scholar, and an honors law graduate of both Oxford University and Harvard University. He practiced law for six years with two major Wisconsin law firms, Foley & Lardner and LaFollette & Sinykin. Feingold served for 10 years in the Wisconsin Senate and 18 years in the United States Senate, where he was a member of the Foreign Relations, Intelligence, Budget and Judiciary Committees.  [Nobody is saying his credentials do not qualify him to teach law.  What we are saying is that a Catholic institution should not hire him because he is unethical.  Feingold is unethical because he stated publicly on the senate floor that he supported legalized infanticide after a child was born(after a failed abortion) whereas the doctor or woman supported the decision, and never retracted that statement.  Was he even asked by Marquette administration if he would retract that statement?]
As Law School Dean Joseph Kearney noted in his blog post on this matter, the appointment of Senator Feingold does not in any way endorse his public positions or votes on any given topic. While some of the senator’s views are controversial, his appointment at Marquette Law School does not suggest that all of them are right. But a university and its Law School—and that includes a Catholic university—are especially well suited to explore multiple dimensions of many of these issues. [So my question: is there any ethical standard applied to employees at Marquette University?  I am sure that the university would not hire a prominent member of the KKK; so who draws that line and where is it drawn?]

I have been president here at Marquette for almost fifteen years and have thought a great deal about this question of having political leaders as part of our university community. As I suspect you would acknowledge, none of them are very likely to hold no position whatsoever that does not pose some problems in terms of the considered moral judgment of significant groups of people in this country or in terms of religious teaching, including Roman Catholicism.  [Infanticide as immoral is not an exclusive teaching of the Roman Catholic bishops.  This would apply to most any mainstream religion.] So if on that basis alone we would exclude a political leader from this campus, then on that same basis we had better exclude all of them. To exclude all politicians seems contrary both to the cherished democratic values of our country and the four and a half centuries of efforts by Catholic, Jesuit educators to form their students into individuals that will be engaged members of their respective civic communities. With that said, and given both his extensive qualifications for the course he is teaching and the firm statement that we do not endorse his views on any given topic, I must respectfully disagree that we should not have hired Sen. Feingold as a visiting professor.  [This is a mistake from a traditionally Christian institution.  It seems that Marquette has lost her identity somewhere along the way if public support for infanticide is something that her teach-ers can be espoused.]

Thank you for taking the time to express your concerns. Whether you agree with the perspective I am advancing here or not, I do hope that it helps you understand better Marquette’s position. God bless.

Sincerely,

Robert A. Wild, SJ
President
Marquette University

Fr. Wild would not address the issue of infanticide or abortion as something other than a "religious teaching of Roman Catholicism."  That is where his logic is faulty.  Feingold did not deny the Trinity; he denied that children should have a legal right to live after they are born so long as a parent or doctor deems the termination of that life as desirable.  And Marquette University wasn't even willing to ask him to retract that statement.

My hope is as the institutions of The Great Lakes schism crumble, that Catholics in Wisconsin will be able to build up a new university from their pieces.  Let's face it, the best option for a Catholic University in our state is the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and joining the St. Paul Student Center.  Any attempt at "Catholicism" by Marquette University is a pitch to get included into alumni estate planning.

Would you allow the doctor to kill the baby, Professor Feingold?

From Patrick McIlheran

Also, speaking of soft landings: John McAdams doesn’t complain too loudly about Russ Feingold becoming the latest falling star taken in by Marquette University’s law school. He’s haughty and now repudiated, McAdams writes, but at least he wasn’t corrupt.

Still, Badger Catholic notes the particular problem for Marquette in hiring the senator who was OK with infanticide.

Maybe we should define corrupt. Let's review exactly what Feingold said on the Senate floor on September 26, 1996:

Sen. Santorum: That doesn’t answer the question. Let’s assume that this procedure[partial birth abortion] is being performed for the reason that you’ve stated, and the head is accidentally delivered. Would you allow the doctor to kill the baby?

Sen. Feingold: I am not the person to be answering that question. That is a question that should be answered by a doctor, and by the woman who receives advice from the doctor.   And neither I, nor is the Senator from Pennsylvania, truly competent to answer those questions.  That is why we should not be making those decisions here on the floor of the Senate.

Which makes me wonder if there is any legal position that a professor of law at Marquette could hold that would disqualify them.  Apparently the ethics and law schools are on separate planets at MU.  Are law students required to take Common Sense 101 before taking Professor Feingold's courses?

And if you didn't know, Marquette Law School has their own blog.  As they welcomed Feingold publicly, some of the commenters were less than thrilled with the decision.  You may want to chime in.

Also check out Pro-Life Wisconsin on the issue.

Pro-infanticide Russ Feingold to teach at Marquette University

.... I would have bet $100 to someone that he was going to teach at UW in Madison.  Infanticide?  From his own mouth.  I expect these kinds of appointments coming out of Madison, but Marquette?  And Marquette Law School?  This is the same law school that has produced some truly great legal minds, and had US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia say this in September:

"The reality is that the part of your academic career that will have the most lasting impact and that will be remembered after you are long gone is those hours you spent producing a living intellectual legacy in the classroom," Scalia said. "I hope Marquette will always be a teaching law school."

So remember this Marquette law students: compromise everything that you are and drift with the winds of change.  No legal principal is to great, no ethical problem to grave, that you cannot compromise everything you are to become rich and powerful.  Or in Marquette's case, to become "prestigious."

Feingold will join two other Marquette professors who are also on the Planned Parrenthood of Wisconsin board.

I saw somebody search this but no Feingold is not Catholic, he is Jewish.

Here's the press release:

Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will join the Marquette University Law School faculty as visiting professor of law beginning the spring semester 2011, the university announced today. Feingold completed his third term in the U.S. Senate January 3.

“Senator Feingold joins Marquette Law School with a substantial academic, legal and legislative background,” said Joseph D. Kearney, dean of Marquette University Law School, in announcing the appointment. “He will draw on all of this in working with students in their analysis of some of the most complex legal issues facing our nation and world today. I look forward to his service on our faculty.”

Feingold will teach an elective course, Current Legal Issues: The U.S. Senate, to upper-level law students. He earned his undergraduate degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a former Rhodes Scholar and an honors law graduate of both Oxford University and Harvard University. He practiced law for six years with two Wisconsin law firms, Foley & Lardner and LaFollette & Sinykin. Feingold served for 10 years in the Wisconsin Senate and 18 years in the United States Senate, where he was a member of the Foreign Relations, Intelligence, Budget and Judiciary Committees.

“As I looked at beginning to write the next chapter of my professional life, the opportunity to be in a Wisconsin classroom with engaged law students is one I found very appealing,” said Feingold. “Marquette Law School is a dynamic place, and I look forward to being part of it.”

While teaching at Marquette University Law School, Feingold also expects to begin work on a book.

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Wisconsin election roundup

Wisconsin now has a pro-life governor.  Sconnie's now have a "pro-life" senator for the first time since 1993 and the first time a pro-life Republican defeated a pro-abortion incumbent since 1980 in the Reagan election.

Here's lookin at you Herbie in 2012.  Kohl will be 77 at that point.  I think I read he stated he has no intention of retiring but we will see the mood of the country.  He's won his last 2 of his last 3 elections by 20% and the last election by over 30%.  It takes alot of money which Kohl has. 

Pro-lifers like Badger Catholic endorsed Sean Duffy beats pro-abortion "Catholic" Julie Lassa in district 7.  Also pro-life Reed Ribble wins district 8. 

Pro-life Dan Kapanke came up a little short in WI District 3.  One thing that worked against Kapanke was the Eau Claire doctors claiming Ron Kind staffers wanted to charge them for an audience.  Kind then laid the victim card down and I think that was a big help to him. Not to mention Kind outspent Kapanke 4-1.  Had national GOP recognized it was a close race and chipped in, we would be seeing another pro-abort booted out.

Kind had harsh words for his opponent Tuesday night, calling the attacks desperate campaigning by a desperate candidate.

“Take a look at who he surrounded himself with. I expected this kind of last-minute assassination on my integrity and my character,” Kind said. “For him to take such a low road, I think he’s made a pact with the devil that he’s going to have to live with for a long time.”

So much for Mr. Nice Guy.  Can you say sore winner.  #1 it's politics.  #2 you're a politician.  Funny, lets look at how Ron Kind went about his campaign:

In an open letter to Kind after the state Democratic Party accused Kapanke of money laundering[to pay for lights at a city owned ballpark], Kapanke urged his opponent to stay above the fray so they can greet each other in church on good terms.

Yet the campaigns unfolded decidedly negative.

Kind says Kapanke's unprovoked letter to the editor Sept. 5, which accuses Kind of mudslinging, shouldn't be mistaken for the opening bell.

"From day one, given Sen. Kapanke's website, his campaign has been nothing but slash-and-burn politics against me[He's the 2 million dollar victim I guess]," he said. "Although he wasn't buying TV and radio, that campaign was certainly doing everything they could to attack me."  [Kind outspent Kapanke 4-1]

That letter dragged him into the fight, Kind said. Kapanke was assailing him, rather than taking responsibility for his ethics breach.

"Dan's had some problems that he's had to resolve, and then he turned around and made me part of the story. That was uncalled for," Kind said. "That was going too far." [I think support for taxpayer funded abortions is a real ethical breach, doncha think?]

In contrast, here's what Kapanke had to say about Kind

"This isn't about Ron Kind as a person. I know his family. I like his family, which is why I've stayed really focused on the issues. If I was happy with the job Ron was doing, I probably wouldn't be doing this. A couple votes here and there, I wouldn't run," Kapanke said.

And the State Assembly and Senate are now in the hands in Republicans.

In contests that drew national attention, Democrats lost control of both the state Assembly and Senate in Tuesday's voting, giving Republicans control of all of state government for the first time since 1998.

The stunning victory amid high unemployment and economic turmoil in the state represented the first time a political party had won both houses of the Legislature in a single day of voting since 1938, when Republicans swept out the waning Progressive Party.

The new GOP majorities will have the potential power to pass tax and spending cuts sought by Governor-elect Scott Walker as well as redraw the lines of political districts to make it easier to elect Republican congressional and legislative candidates. But they also face the challenge of balancing a $3 billion budget deficit projected for the next two years.

In a key Senate race, Rep. Leah Vukmir (R-Wauwatosa) defeated freshman Sen. Jim Sullivan (D-Wauwatosa) in the 5th District. Adding to the sting, Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker (D-Wausau) and Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan (D-Janesville) both conceded their re-election battles.

A good morning.  Get ready to work elephants.  

Rasmussen poll: Johnson, 53%, Feingold, 46%

A new Rasmussen poll is out today. In a survey of 750 likely voters, Republican challenger Ron Johnson led U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) 53%-46%.
The margin of error is plus or minus four percentage points.

JSOnline All Politics Blog

Video of Feingold's support for infanticide

HT Creative Minority Report

I posted on this a while back.  Here's the text of the hearing.  This is what happens when you put corporate sponsors like Planned Parenthood ahead of common sense.  Democrats have foolishly got in bed with abortion folks - so in bed that it is a platform issue...  Long gone is the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (which is too bad). 

The following exchange between Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) took place on the Senate floor on September 26, 1996:
Sen. Santorum: Will the Senator from Wisconsin yield for a question?
Sen. Feingold: I will.
Sen. Santorum: The Senator from Wisconsin says that this decision should be left up to the mother and the doctor, as if there is absolutely no limit that could be placed on what decision that they make with respect to that. And the Senator from California [Sen. Barbara Boxer] is going up to advise you of what my question is going to be, and I will ask it anyway. And my question is this: that if that baby were delivered breech style and everything was delivered except for the head, and for some reason that that baby’s head would slip out — that the baby was completely delivered — would it then still be up to the doctor and the mother to decide whether to kill that baby?
Sen. Feingold: I would simply answer your question by saying under the Boxer amendment, the standard of saying it has to be a determination, by a doctor, of health of the mother, is a sufficient standard that would apply to that situation. And that would be an adequate standard.
Sen. Santorum: That doesn’t answer the question. Let’s assume that this procedure is being performed for the reason that you’ve stated, and the head is accidentally delivered. Would you allow the doctor to kill the baby?

Sen. Feingold: I am not the person to be answering that question. That is a question that should be answered by a doctor, and by the woman who receives advice from the doctor.   And neither I, nor is the Senator from Pennsylvania, truly competent to answer those questions.  That is why we should not be making those decisions here on the floor of the Senate.

Wisconsin Pro-Life candidates pulling away in polls

Walker is above 50 percent for the first time in this campaign, and any gains it looked like Democrat Tom Barrett had made in the Aug. 24 poll seem to have evaporated. Walker's campaign is portraying this as a big win, as they should, things look good for the Republican.

HT David Bohlander

Also on the Sort-of-Pro-Life Ron Johnson:

After a decisive win in Tuesday’s Republican Primary, businessman Ron Johnson now holds a seven-point lead over incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race.

Rasmussen

Also the media is hoping to give the pro-life Dist 3's Dan Kapanke a black eye, but considering Ron Kind is probably one of the least enticing incumbents (he's been in office for 14 years and has done nothing in his time there, except an occasional nod to DNC barking orders), it's still an uphill battle for Kind.  And I think the Kind people in the media also know that the congressman before Kind held the seat for 16 years.  In other words, a pro-life win here could mean a pro life win for the next couple decades.  Let's face it, we have Kapanke who is a farm boy and baseball team owner(who worked his tail off to bring baseball to La Crosse only to have mystery men set fire to part of the stadium) up against Kind, a lawyer and career politician.... If I have any sense of the political climate today, I'd say that is a recipe for Kind-kabobs.  The only thing Kind has is alot of money in the bank and can run ads replaying his news articles. 

Is Ron Johnson Pro-Life?

While both GOP candidates are political newcomers, they clearly differ on the issue. Dave Westlake has taken the purist position of opposing abortion in all instances — no exceptions. Ron Johnson, on the other hand, said in a recent interview with Green Bay's WTAQ radio that he would not bar abortions in all circumstances.

When conservative talk-radio host Jerry Bader asked Johnson if he was a "straight pro-life" candidate, Johnson replied: "No."

Johnson then endorsed what he referred to as "the normal three exceptions," which he described as "true life of the mother ... and instances of rape and incest."

Cap Times

...  I hope RonJohn changes his mind.  To make the point simple, there is no such thing as "un-raping" a woman.  Abortion proponents want to present an "easy fix" to the tragedy.  It's not true.  The abortion does not change anything except heap on more guilt and confusion on a woman who needs real love and help(not a scissors and vaccuum).

Okay, so RonJohn is certainly still a better option than Russ Feingold who(I kid you not) supports infanticide.