You get to music when I'm dressed.
Your mom always takes me inside, baby.
And these days, my daughter loves you.
You can just tell.
So, what am I supposed to do?
Listen, every song written.
You get to music when I'm dressed.
Your mom always takes me inside, baby.
And these days, my daughter loves you.
You can just tell.
You get to music when I'm dressed.
You know my secrets, my demons.
I know your weaknesses, all of your doubts, and your dreams.
So, you can just tell.
You can't break up that.
You can just tell.
You can't break up that.
Thank you, me, too.
Hey, the first time you're home, girl.
If you let down, I'll never get closer.
Can't imagine if anything will get closer.
Then you'll never get closer.
Oh.
You just tell me.
Yeah, I'm on this side.
I'm trying to fix it if the shit's going down.
I'm going down.
Your friends are my friends.
That's all you have.
You've got to know history.
You saw me.
You can't break up that.
You've come too far and we're into deep.
We're up too hard just to let it go.
So we can't break up that.
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Thank you so much.
Don't worry about it.
It'll be good.
I love you all.
That's why I spoke to her.
No.
Don't worry.
That's a bad one.
No, please don't be sad, I don't, don't be sad, don't be sad, there's a purpose, there's a purpose.
Yes, we will, we will, I promise, thank you.
Thank you. Thank you for the talk.
Thank you for the talk.
It was wonderful.
Thank you.
You're going to make your stand up here.
Okay.
All right, so...
Whoo!
So, I'll tell you a little secret about the campaign before I start.
Every time I go anyplace, I always have to check out the podium, because as you can see, I'm almost shorter than it.
So, 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.
But I have spoken with Chris Taylor, and I have conceded.
And that's okay.
I just want to use this opportunity to tell you what this race has meant to me, and what the state needs to me, and what the courts are so important, and what they need 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 want to 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, 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 have 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 the state from now on will know that judicial races are not political races, and the next race, and the next race,
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 run in a way that we were always behind catching up.
That's not how races are going to go from now on.
I want people in the 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 a 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 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.
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.
The first group of people I want to thank are anyone who got me signatures, walked out and knocked doors in the rain, in the cold.
When I talk to people, put things on their doors, put my flyers out, talk 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 talk to, the places I've been, Ashland, Calumet, Eau Claire, Wallworth, all of those counties, I cannot thank them enough.
And I could name all 72, but then you all be here a really long time.
So I'm not going to do that, but I just want 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 cannot thank them more for what they did for me, that helped me.
I also want to thank you to my family, to my family, to my children, to my cousins.
To my 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 1, going around talking about why the courts are so important, and they are.
And I intend to keep doing that, and I intend 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 job, and I will continue to be, although I hope the people in my district will grant me at least today to just sleep and not remember doing anything.
I know I owe thank you cards, I know I owe all sorts of things, and trust me, you will get them, you will get them with or without chocolate.
And I just want 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.
And tonight, 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.
Thank you very much.