Judge with the zingers.
Yeah.
All right.
All right, yes.
Thank you for joining us here.
Thank you. What are your thoughts
about the loss tonight?
Like I said, I think,
one, it's been an honor to run this
race, and two, I'm thankful
to everyone who helped me, my team,
everyone else has been phenomenal
and fantastic, and three,
I'm just hopeful that my
opponent, Justice-elect Taylor,
she just realizes what a fantastic
opportunity she has to show
the state that she can rise above
and do a really good job there,
and I wish that for her.
I hope she does an excellent job and
I hope that everyone in this state
is. Is pleased with the decision
that they've made.
What do you think contributed most
to your loss?
I really don't know.
I mean, I think maybe we'll come up
with numbers, facts and figures, but
I think for right now I think we
just have to assess the fact that
we don't run races for judicial
positions the way we should.
And I think that maybe from
now on we will start doing that.
And I that you should be asking
questions not about political
parties because we still
have that rollover from before.
And I we need to start having
races where the sole question
is judicial experience and
Thanks.
That was a big, I mean, that was
your hope.
That was my hope.
That was my hope. You thought you'd bring
it back?
And maybe it still will happen, so
I'm not giving up on that hope at
all. I'm thinking it still WILL
happen.
But do the results show
that people, they weren't the
politics of it all?
No, I don't think so.
I think this was a race where we had
incidents that happened, tornadoes,
other things that happened that just
weren't leading towards a good
opportunity for people in the state
to get to know the candidates.
And I think maybe next race that
they will ask for that.
No, no, no. I they will demand
that. And when they do that,
you will see a better race, better
candidates, and you will a better
result.
What kind of decisions are you
expecting out of the court now that
it's got such a heavy majority?
I'm hopeful that the decisions that
come out of the State Supreme Court
are ones that go right down
the middle and are neutral,
impartial, independent and fair.
Are you going to be, so when is your
term up on the appeals?
I have two more years on the
Court of Appeals and then I
get to run again and then I
will have six more years so there's
a lot of things to do a lot of
decisions to make and
you know a nice vacation to come
up soon so I'm looking forward to
all of that.
I did overhear you saying to people,
a door closes, a window opens,
something to that effect.
What's the window?
What would it mean?
I don't know what window it is yet,
so what I'm saying is just because
this didn't happen, and I am sad,
and it is a disappointment, I mean
we're human, I
think that there's still things that
I can do and things that
i can do for this state, and maybe
it'll be in a different capacity,
maybe it will be where I am on the
Court of Appeals, maybe somewhere
else.
I'm not running for any political
office ever, so you can mark that
one down, but that's not
saying that there are other things
that could not do for the state,
or other that I could do, I mean...
I am the editor of a book on
criminal texts and procedures,
and I've written other things so the
world's there.
Do you think that Wisconsin should
still continue to have spring and
fall elections or should they all be
lumped together?
The clear answer
to that is that I don't think
Wisconsin will change that ever.
I think people like their two
elections.
I also think there probably are some
problems if you got an election
ballot in November and it had the
spring and November, it would be
two, three pages.
People would have difficulty doing
that. But I just think overall that
the people in the state of Wisconsin
kind of are stubborn and we like
things the way they are and we don't
like to change them.
So you can come up with lots of
hypotheticals and...
Alternates, but I don't think it's
gonna change.
But then again, you know, I'm not a
legislator so if they want to change
it, not my call.
Would you run through the Supreme
Court again?
That's not in my future.
Although I'm supposed to write,
always leave doors open, so I'll
just say, hmm, interesting question.
Thank you so much for your time.
No problem.
Thank you so much.
I hope it worked.
It did.
Excellent, thank you very much.