WI Supreme Court
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the 2018 Wisconsin Supreme Court election is in the books. Judge Dalit defeated judges Chronic. The election of judges is supposed to be nonpartisan. Judges are expected to be open minded and neutral. In fact, each of these campaigns was fed by millions of special interest dollars. It's chronic received big money from conservatives, bankers, manufacturers, insurers and the Republican Party. Dalits money came from liberals, Labour, consumer and public employees, lobbies and the Democratic Party. Both sides aimed to elect a judge who shared their bias with anticipation of someday appearing before that vory judge whose campaign they financed. When that happens, we are no longer on democracy. Individual citizens air helpless to combat big money, often secret money buying their elections. Perhaps the solution is public financing of all elections than every candidate would have the same size checkbook. Every voter would have the same power, and our elections would be decided on merit, not money