So what am I supposed to
do? Unless every song
written Take you out of
every moment You know
my secrets My demons And
I know your weaknesses All
of your doubts and your dreams
I hate the thought of starting over,
if you left I know I'll never
get closure Can't
imagine nothing and it won't get
closer
Go!
Yeah.
So thank you,
thank you to all you guys watching.
Thank you so much.
Don't worry about it. It'll be good.
It'll good. It will be good
I love you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you
guys for coming.
Thank you, very much
So don't worry,
that's okay.
No.
No, no, please don't
be sad.
I know, don't regret to be sad,
don't be sad There's a purpose,
there's purpose
God is wrong, there is a
purpose
Yes, we will.
We will. I promise.
Thank you.
Thank you for talking with us.
The TV was great.
It was wonderful.
Thank you so much.
Thank you!
You're making a stand up here.
Thank you.
Awesome.
Woo!
So I'll tell you
a little secret about the campaign
before I start.
Every time I go any place, I always
have to check at the podium because
as you can see, I'm almost shorter
than it.
So you'll forgive me if I talk
from the side and not
from behind the podium.
It's a little bit easier So
I want to tell you as you all may
know The results have
come in. I don't know what they'll
actually end up at but
I have spoken with Chris Taylor and
I have conceded
And that's okay.
I Just want to use this opportunity
to tell what this
race has meant to me what
the state means to me and
what the courts are so important
and what they mean to me as well.
This race for me has been
the absolute 100%
honor of my lifetime.
It has been the best
opportunity for me to
go across this entire state,
to talk to everyone everywhere
in areas that I have never been,
but I feel like I've been everywhere
before.
And I wanna tell you that I
could not have been more honored,
more proud, more pleased,
more humbled to be your
candidate in this race.
And I want to
tell you not to fret,
not to be upset, not to
be sad.
We can do that a little bit later.
We can really, really, sleep in
and do that, which will be nice.
But I just want you to know that.
I care about the state so much,
I care about the courts so much
and I have led the
type of campaign that I always said
I would.
I have been honest, I've been
transparent, I have been above
board, I had led
with integrity and
I want you to know that
that is how we need to run races
in the state of Wisconsin.
So one of the lines that we
talk about is that this has been an
uphill battle, and it has.
But I don't think that I've
run this race for no purpose.
I think that this race was
run so that people in this
state from now on will
know that judicial races are
not political races.
And the next race, and the next
raise, and the the next rise,
we will keep fighting to put
judges.
Good, talented judges
with experience on the
bench. And we will not
take the status quo.
This race was brought running in
a way that we were always
behind catching up.
That's not how races are gonna go
from now on.
I want people in this state to
demand better from your
candidates.
I want you to demand two
or three debates, every
judicial race, and I don't want them
all to be in Milwaukee.
I want them to be, maybe you all go
up where I was in Superior,
and you talk there.
Maybe you go to Eau Claire or
Green Bay.
I want the people in the state to
know about their candidates.
You should not have had to have
waited till the very end to
hear both of us together.
There should have been three
debates, and I'm hopeful that
next year there will be.
You have won!
I also want you to know that
I have so many
people that I want to thank
because I could not be
standing here without all of them
and the first group of people I want
thank are anyone who
got me signatures,
walked out and knocked doors in the
rain, in the cold.
Went and talked to people, put
things on
their doors, put my flyers out,
talked to groups of people, got
anything that you could do to
get the word out because I
cannot thank you enough.
The counties that I talked to, the
places I've been, Ashland,
Calumet, Eau Claire,
Walworth.
All of those counties, I cannot
thank them enough.
And I could name all of 72,
but then you'd all be here a really
long time.
So I'm not going to do that.
But I just want you to know that I
thank those people so much,
I thank everyone who's here,
everyone who voted for me, and
I want everyone to know that your
votes were not cast in vain,
and that you did set a mark
and draw a line and say,
Wisconsin deserves better.
And I'm hopeful in future years that
will happen. I also want to
thank my entire team,
who have been the most amazing
group of people to work with in
my lifetime, and I could not thank
them more.
I wish I could have had a better
result tonight, but I get out and
thank them more for what they did
for me and helped me.
I also want to give a round of
applause for that.
I also want to say
thank you to my family,
to my children, to my cousins,
to m nieces, to everyone who's
helped me and everything else.
And I think the biggest thank you
that I have is to
my driver, my chauffeur,
my best friend, my love from
high school.
My husband of, and I
won't age myself, but 40 years
this year, my husband Tom.
I also want to tell you that
my work for the courts has not
ended and that this is just
the beginning.
I have spent, well,
since October one, going
around talking about why the courts
are so important and they are,
and I intend to keep doing that
and I tend to do that in my role.
I'm still going to be working at my
job, doing what I do.
In fact, I think it's
noteworthy that I am currently
ahead at my jobs and I will continue
to be, Although I hope the
people in my district will grant me
at least two days to just sleep and
not move or do anything.
I ask that,
I know I owe thank you cards,
I know owe all sorts of things,
and trust me, you will get them, you
will them with or without chocolate.
And I just want you to know though
that tomorrow is, I think, a
sleep day, although the people I'm
working with did want me to work for
about six hours tomorrow, and
we moved that one day out, so I'll
be doing that.
But in all seriousness,
do not be disappointed, you
are amazing, Wisconsin
is amazing,
this state is one that
really should be proud of itself,
and every single one of you
has my utmost, utmost
thanks.
Every night.
Thank you.
And I will tell you that
the fight is not over and
that we will keep fighting for our
courts because they are that
important.
Enjoy the evening.
Do not be sad.
Thank you very much and good night
everybody.