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Judge with the zingers.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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All right, yes.

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Thank you for joining us here.

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Thank you. What are your thoughts

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about the loss tonight?

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Like I said, I think,

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one, it's been an honor to run this

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race, and two, I'm thankful

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to everyone who helped me, my team,

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everyone else has been phenomenal

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and fantastic, and three,

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I'm just hopeful that my

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opponent, Justice-elect Taylor,

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she just realizes what a fantastic

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opportunity she has to show

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the state that she can rise above

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and do a really good job there,

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and I wish that for her.

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I hope she does an excellent job and

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I hope that everyone in this state

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is. Is pleased with the decision

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that they've made.

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What do you think contributed most

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to your loss?

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I really don't know.

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I mean, I think maybe we'll come up

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with numbers, facts and figures, but

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I think for right now I think we

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just have to assess the fact that

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we don't run races for judicial

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positions the way we should.

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And I think that maybe from

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now on we will start doing that.

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And I that you should be asking

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questions not about political

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parties because we still

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have that rollover from before.

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And I we need to start having

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races where the sole question

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is judicial experience and

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Thanks.

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That was a big, I mean, that was

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your hope.

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That was my hope.

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That was my hope. You thought you'd
bring

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it back?

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And maybe it still will happen, so

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I'm not giving up on that hope at

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all. I'm thinking it still WILL

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happen.

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But do the results show

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that people, they weren't the

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politics of it all?

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No, I don't think so.

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I think this was a race where we had

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incidents that happened, tornadoes,

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other things that happened that just

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weren't leading towards a good

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opportunity for people in the state

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to get to know the candidates.

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And I think maybe next race that

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they will ask for that.

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No, no, no. I they will demand

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that. And when they do that,

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you will see a better race, better

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candidates, and you will a better

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result.

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What kind of decisions are you

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expecting out of the court now that

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it's got such a heavy majority?

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I'm hopeful that the decisions that

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come out of the State Supreme Court

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are ones that go right down

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the middle and are neutral,

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impartial, independent and fair.

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Are you going to be, so when is your

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term up on the appeals?

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I have two more years on the

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Court of Appeals and then I

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get to run again and then I

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will have six more years so there's

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a lot of things to do a lot of

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decisions to make and

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you know a nice vacation to come

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up soon so I'm looking forward to

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all of that.

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I did overhear you saying to people,

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a door closes, a window opens,

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something to that effect.

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What's the window?

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What would it mean?

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I don't know what window it is yet,

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so what I'm saying is just because

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this didn't happen, and I am sad,

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and it is a disappointment, I mean

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we're human, I

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think that there's still things that

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I can do and things that

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i can do for this state, and maybe

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it'll be in a different capacity,

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maybe it will be where I am on the

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Court of Appeals, maybe somewhere

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else.

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I'm not running for any political

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office ever, so you can mark that

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one down, but that's not

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saying that there are other things

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that could not do for the state,

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or other that I could do, I mean...

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I am the editor of a book on

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criminal texts and procedures,

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and I've written other things so the

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world's there.

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Do you think that Wisconsin should

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still continue to have spring and

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fall elections or should they all be

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lumped together?

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The clear answer

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to that is that I don't think

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Wisconsin will change that ever.

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I think people like their two

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elections.

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I also think there probably are some

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problems if you got an election

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ballot in November and it had the

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spring and November, it would be

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two, three pages.

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People would have difficulty doing

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that. But I just think overall that

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the people in the state of Wisconsin

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kind of are stubborn and we like

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things the way they are and we don't

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like to change them.

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So you can come up with lots of

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hypotheticals and...

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Alternates, but I don't think it's

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gonna change.

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But then again, you know, I'm not a

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legislator so if they want to change

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it, not my call.

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Would you run through the Supreme

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Court again?

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That's not in my future.

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Although I'm supposed to write,

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always leave doors open, so I'll

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just say, hmm, interesting question.

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Thank you so much for your time.

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No problem.

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Thank you so much.

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I hope it worked.

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It did.

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Excellent, thank you very much.