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Thank you for joining me, ma'am
It's a great day to be with you.
It is a good day.
Not only did the Brewers win yesterday and today and today and extra innings.
And, uh, so one of our textures remind us the bucks one last night as well.
But judge Susan Crawford will soon be justice.
Susan Crawford after she laid a shell lacking onto the B.
who apparently didn't want the job anyway.
And Elon and Elon Musk thought he was going to lose.
It's amazing.
All these things that are said after the fact map, but we did find a piece here, which is, it's very entertaining over at the urban Milwaukee.com Murphy's law, Bruce Murphy, fine journalist over there, 19 winners and losers in historic elections.
Beyond the names on the ballot, who else won and lost in yesterday's election?
I think Matt Munich have to kind of bounce around on here.
I'll start first and then we'll go to the back and forth as Murphy writes.
If ever there was an election with some of the biggest winners and losers were not on the ballot, this was it.
At times it seemed that the Wisconsin Supreme Court election was all about one loudmouth with a $25 million megaphone who didn't live in Wisconsin.
Oh yeah, writes Bruce Murphy.
He heads the list.
I'll start, Matt, then you go.
Loser, Elon Musk.
Wow, did he lose big?
I
You know, if Wisconsin voters screwed Elon Musk anymore, he'd
Always child support Yeah, don't forget to hit tip the help can hear us in the back
Elon Musk, wow, did he lose big liberal George Soros as always quietly donated two million this time to the Democratic Party.
Musk spent 12 times more than this on the election in addition to offering cash rewards to quote unquote petition signers that he clearly wanted to vote for conservative Supreme Court candidate BS.
Musk wore a cheese head hat.
He probably regrets that the most.
He wore a cheesehead hat, held rallies in Wisconsin, and made the election about him and was soundly defeated.
Bruce Murphy writes Musk had talked about doing the same thing in other state elections.
Democrats will love it if he does.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, who doesn't like losers, might start separating himself a bit from Elon and Musk's company Tesla, which is fighting to change the state law borrowing manufacturers from opening dealerships, might get a chilly reception from the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
himself from
Another loser according to Bruce Murphy, Donald Trump himself.
He will blame the loss on Musk seems to be doing that already.
But in fact, he did endorse Shimmel.
Bruce Murphy writes in the Republicans ran ads, warning voters that liberal Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford will stymie Trump's agenda.
How did that work for you guys?
So Bruce Murphy concludes her victory was a loss for
Very sweet.
A winner.
More winners here.
Women justices.
Have you noticed that almost every time the Liberals win in Wisconsin Supreme Court election, the winners of women, the two who did at least a new bower in 2019 and Joanne Kloppenberg in 2011, both lost by a tiny 0.5% margin.
and Kloppenberg against incumbent David Prosser.
The four liberal justices who held the majority in Wisconsin, including retiring and Walsh Bradley, were all standing behind Crawford as she gave her victory speech and were all hugging each other.
odds.
Our Democrats are already looking for a woman can eight to run against conservative Rebecca Bradley next year.
Oh, Rebecca.
Brad, we have some sound.
We do.
We do.
This is the bad Bradley, not the good retiring Bradley.
This is, I believe from BS's event last night.
And this is, I'm going to tell you, man, I don't know if this is going to be a healthy work environment.
I mean, I'm not saying she's going to choke somebody, but she's certainly very critical.
Justice.
You know how Republicans do it, man.
Justice Rebecca Bradley.
Man, she's leveling some legal allegations here,
right?
Let's
I'm really personally and professionally disappointed that Judge Shema lost to Judge Crawford.
I think it's going to.
result in terrible consequences for the state of Wisconsin and for the state of the judiciary.
My four colleagues have politicized our court in a terrible manner.
They make political decisions all the time.
They rule 100 percent for the Democratic Party in every case that's presented to them.
We had an opportunity to return the port to what it should be, which is deciding cases under the law.
And unfortunately, we're simply going to see more politicization of the judiciary.
I also think the way Judge Crawford ran her race was disgusting.
Disgusting.
She slandered a good man, Judge Schimmel.
We saw this last time against Justice Kelly.
It's really sickening.
And I hope next time the people will see through the lies that are misportrayed good people.
I
gotta
you know get the Windex out for our screens are so full of mud from both sides all those nasty ads but Rebecca Rebecca Bradley you know she was one of the most
uh, the biggest, uh, person to politicize the court I've seen in a long time here.
I mean, to talk about, uh, politicizing the court, that's what she does in every one of her decisions practically.
And she, you talked about the atmosphere on the court down.
I mean, she's.
Uh, she makes it a hostile work environment, even for
The conservative Hagedorn, um, justice, Rebecca Bradley, disgusting.
She's disgusting.
I mean, and, and maybe, but you know what?
As you mentioned, man, both sides are doing it, man.
You know what I mean?
So yes, these are terrible ads and it's not slander.
I'm just saying, and regarding to the last guy, Kelly, you know, who lost, well, you can't have.
two L's.
Can't spell Kelly without two L's.
Of course he lost twice.
Why did Schimel lose?
Let's hear the wisdom of the bad Bradley.
I think that we saw a ridiculous amount of money come in to this election and I always defend the right of anybody.
to participate in speaking in elections.
And of course, that takes money to do it.
No, it doesn't.
It's $100 million plus being spent on one state supreme court race.
That is telling you that the Democratic Party is buying another justice, just like they did with Justice Protosiewicz.
It needs to stop.
Otherwise, there is no point in having a court.
This is what the legislature is supposed to do to make political decisions.
based on policy.
That's not what a court's supposed to do.
And unfortunately, we're going to see this happening for at least the next several years.
Well, maybe next year, because that woman, Justice Rebecca Bradley, will be on the ballot.
Now, here's an opportunity, Justice Bradley.
You don't like the $100 million being spent.
Why don't you team up with some of your Democratic colleagues and maybe push
forth some legislation.
I know you're on the court, but you have influence on in your Republican circles to, I don't know, get money out of politics.
There's an idea.
Cause you know what's going to happen next time, Matt?
It's going to be 150 million against, uh, well, at least totality in the next cycle.
I mean, that segment was kind of delicious because Rebecca Bradley was one of the people who signed on to a decision in 2015 by the Wisconsin Supreme Court that let super rich people give unlimited amounts of money to non-profit groups that don't do the electionary, don't tell you, vote for or vote against, but essentially do by just saying call such and such at this
number, six, eight,
And then based on her rulings and based on her actions and certainly of her party as well, this is success.
This is what they wanted.
And now they're limited all the money, the money.
Well, do something about it.
We're here.
The Dems are down.
Independence are down.
Man, people are down getting the money out.
You don't like it.
Do something about it.
I do have one more cut from, from Bradley, the bad Bradley.
I mean, yeah.
Let's see.
Uh, how will it be to work with Crawford?
Let's just
I'm not looking forward to working with her because I think she's.
As I have accused her of, and it's simply not true, she has bought and paid for it by the Democratic Party.
I challenge her to rule one time against the Democrats.
I haven't seen that get from any of my liberal colleagues, but having said that, I will work with her like I've worked with all of my other colleagues and get the work done.
Oops, my bad.
So yeah, there was a case just this week that
Everybody, the Republicans, the conservatives, and the liberals turned down Josh Call.
So there you go.
There's one.
There's one.
Folks, you're listening to the Dom Salvia show, 855-752-4842.
Got Matt Rothschild joining me today.
Got just PS on the board.
A few more, perhaps winners and losers from yesterday's Supreme Court race.
Folks, you are all winners.
You're listening to the Dom Salvia show.
We'll wrap up a few more here and we'll take your calls.
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Also, also we have a little bit of sound.
Not all of it.
Senator Cory Booker.
I said we should play all of it, but just said no.
We'll do a show.
like next month, but we're gonna play a little bit of Cory Booker standing up.
We need, we need some performance from our Democrats.
I think that was a fine job.
Let's see what else we can do.
Getting some good trouble folks.
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look if you had one shot or one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted one moment to capture
just
We listen to the justice of bad Rebecca Bradley, the bad Bradley.
But now Susan Crawford will be a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
We're kind of running on the urban Milwaukee list of winners and losers.
Let me throw one in here and Matt, then you could take the next one.
Winner Shirley Abramson, the late liberal lion of Wisconsin's High Court, never lost in election was a role model for every one of the justices on the stage last night.
She would be proud.
of what they have accomplished right on Bruce Murphy over at Urban Milwaukee.
Well, before I get to that, I just thought that was a really classy nod by Bruce Murphy to bring back the memory of the great Chief Justice Shirley Abramson.
And speaking of a classy nod, Susan Crawford herself gave a sweet and touching kind of goodbye to the good Bradley.
to Ann Walsh Bradley, who was up there on the stage with the other liberal justices.
Ann Walsh Bradley has been a tremendous justice.
He was very good friends with Chief Justice Shirley Abramson, so that was really sweet.
More losers?
Scott Walker is always nice to see.
And that should be his first name anyway.
It's very nice to see Loser next to Scott Walker's name.
According to Bruce Murphy, the former Republican governor of Wisconsin has been in his Richard Nixon mode for six years now plotting his comeback.
This election was his latest attempt.
Walker claimed to credit for recruiting Musk to get involved in this election.
I should send him a thank you note for that and got coverage from the New York Times for this Crawford should send scooter a bouquet.
So her Scott Walker Walker also Keith Gilks Walker was nice enough to share the credit for his master plan with Republican consultant who worked on Walker's past campaign according to Bruce Murphy.
He thinks Gilks won't be putting his musky strategy on his resume.
Yeah, bring musk around.
It'll be great.
If you listen to
Senator Ron Johnson, I mean.
It's a net positive.
Schimel would have lost by more if it weren't for Elon Musk.
Other losers, according to Bruce Murphy, nice to see this couple, Richard and Elizabeth Eline, Dick and Liz, the Uber conservative E-Lines who live in Illinois, but run a Wisconsin-based company, the E-Line company, and have a summer home way up north, spent nearly $8 million second only to Musk in Wisconsin history to elect Schimel.
Richard has complained in the past about being advised to back losers.
Well, Dick, you've done it again.
You know, I'm so sick of the right talking about Soros when Musk and the E lines, you know, had four times to 10 times as much as what George Soros put in here.
Bruce also goes on loser the super wealthy continuing on this theme.
In many ways, the Supreme Court election was a rejection of the richest 1% both in Wisconsin and Washington as Crawford put in her victory speak.
Speech as a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls I never could have imagined that I'd be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin
Here's another loser, which is sweet to see school choice Ha ha says Bruce Murphy if there is ever a race for a state superintendent of public instruction that a school choice supporter sure one It was this one incumbent Jill underly was not backed by the state teachers union nor by Governor Tony Evers a former superintendent himself But underly ran a surprisingly strong campaign probably helped by the turnout of liberals in the high court race and defeated voucher supporter
Brittany Kinzer.
And that was a sweet victory, too.
And perhaps one of the issues that will come before this liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court will be these issues of vouchers, this unfunded mandate of our using our tax dollars to subsidize religious indoctrination of our children.
But hell, you know, those woke folks, we got to stop them.
Loser, according to Bruce Murphy, the Republican party, wa, wa, wa.
It was Brad Schimmel who pushed to nationalize the Supreme Court race and state GOP leaders.
got on board that train, turning this into a referendum on Trump at a time when the president was decimating federal services and laying off middle class workers.
Bad timing.
I mean, literally Schimel is like, I will be, you know, Trump's guy on the Supreme court.
He needs a support network.
I mean, it's very clear on that.
And if these were, and we thought, we listened and we talked a little bit about Senator Ron Johnson, how he thought we couldn't do any more messaging.
And yeah, you did the messaging and you, you said over and over again, oh, this liberal gets on, you know, they're going to, they're going to thwart the president's agenda.
Well, if that's what you believe, then maybe I'm just, you know, throwing this out there, maybe the people don't want.
what your president, what the president, what that agenda is.
Maybe people are rejecting that, but you'd have to believe your own nonsense if that would be the case.
There's a winner of the Democratic Party, Matt.
You got this one?
Republicans are scared that courts, the liberal majority will rule in favor of new maps for the state's eight congressional districts, which are still badly gerrymandered.
If the court does that, it will strike a blow for democracy, according to Bruce Murphy, and a blow against Republican overreach.
So, you know, fair maps are really important.
And finally, we're getting some fair maps in the state legislature, and we may get them for congressional districts, too.
According to the right, if you get fair maps, that's a lefty woke gerrymander.
If you get, you know, an equal, a level playing field, I'll throw this last one out there.
Again, you can find this on the urban Milwaukee.com and in our show notes and in the show notes, winner.
The Democratic Party, the state's party leader, Ben Wickler, came up with a People Against Musk campaign to counter the massive spending of Musk.
Republicans doubted it would work as campaigns against wealthy backers never get any traction, but this one did.
Quote, in a moment of national darkness, Wisconsin voters lit a candle.
Let the lesson of Wisconsin election, Wisconsin's election, ring out across the country.
us.
Welcome back to the Dom Salvi show eight five five seven five two four eight four two eight five five seven five Civic Matt Rothschild joining me today.
Just piece is on the board gonna get to your calls and your texts right now eight five five Seven five Civic Richard from a walk a show you will be up next.
Welcome Richard.
What do you got for us?
Well, I'd like to thank you and Civic radio for all the hard work and everything is a big step forward
This gal that's talking about how she thinks this is so terrible there.
I think she's got to look at love from both sides now.
We got to work as a nation, country, not as just one side.
Yeah, you're welcome, man.
You're very welcome.
I appreciate you listening, man.
Thanks for contributing your thoughts.
I think Matt, he's got a point.
When there is opportunity in this divided country, we should certainly take it.
And money in politics, man.
I'm telling you, is one of those things.
Because, you know, the same message.
So that was disgraceful, actually, on both sides.
And the amount of money is just obscene.
There's just no other way around it.
And we can't have our elections just...
being contest between super, super rich billionaires.
That's just no way to have a democracy function.
So there are a lot of people in Wisconsin working on it.
There's Wisconsin United to amend.
There's Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
There's legal women voters.
There's common cause.
There's a state senator Chris Larson who every session of the legislature introduces a great bill to reform our campaign finance law.
And now's the time to move on it.
Well good news after yesterday Our home is still dry and But yesterday was a splash of cold water to the face that disinherited
Democrats and supporters needed.
Doing doors in Milwaukee's North Shore in the cold and the wind last weekend, I feel full redemption and relief.
And I'm so happy that Joe Underly wins at least.
someone with a teacher's license as that job, which could be a minimum requirement.
Hey, thanks, thanks for doing that.
And you know, you got to, and for the folks like Neil to go out there and do that.
And I've, I've gotten the calls and, uh, and, and, and seeing the folks out there and talk to a lot of motivated folks out there, trying to get people to vote.
And it's not, you know, it's one thing for us to talk about on the radio, other people going out there, literally in the cold,
door to door, in the
Wisconsin.
paid off this time engagement folks you can take a little break take a breath but you know fine if you hear these names and listen to the shows and you know get get involved do what you can add every little bit helps and it makes it you know it gives you a little skin in the game and yes it takes effort it takes time not a lot of effort not a lot of time you can get involved to whatever degree uh your your schedule or your mind will allow you uh but when we don't
If we don't, then we've got billionaires coming in here and they will fill the gap left by those that do not participate.
So very proud of the state of Wisconsin last night, man.
Well done.
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CJ, our pal, CJ.
You are up next.
Welcome, CJ.
What do you got for us today?
Well, thanks for taking my call, Dom.
And Matt, good to talk to you too, sir.
You speak of money.
15% came from out of state for Schimel.
77% came from Crawford.
You know, I think we could find some different facts, but here's
Okay CJ hang on one second And and I know you're here and I'll give you one one other shot.
I want you to I want I want your comments I really want you to tell us what your impressions are what your takeaway is from this shellacking BS took yesterday in the state of Wisconsin What do you read into the selection if anything CJ?
Well, the big winner is we now require a constitutional requirement of a photo ID because the invasion over the last four years Okay, but that's not okay.
So that that that past that past but how
Well, you know Susan Crawford one I think
Um, certainly wrote the coattails of must because the press didn't mention George Soros and didn't mention governor Prick, sir, the amount of money that came from.
Well, CJ, that's not true because
the time.
to the degree of the one
Well, I don't like it.
Yeah.
Thanks.
you brought up names from the past.
Keith Gilks and Scott Walker.
Of course, Keith Gilks was illegally campaigning with Scott Walker back in 2010 when Scott Walker was going, was Tony executive and running this campaign.
Oh, is that the secret router
No, he was his lawyer, the guy who was sent a letter to sent the archer book.
not letting the information get out of the the problems of the uh... what i'll speak garage the collapse and killed
a calmer
i mean that that's still it it's you know these guys in these bad pennies does never go for rebecca for rebecca bradley to be out there writing about
So, you know, Judge Crawford coming in, I mean, she's just a nasty person.
She's been a nasty person since she was in
I mean, she was very Trumpian of you, Mark, nasty woman.
She did have some very, what, what nasty anti-LGBTQ comments and whatnot in, in the college days.
Mark does certain, certainly true.
And if someone knows about, you know, showing for a political party, I think, you know, Rebecca Bradley would know something about that, man.
And she's up for election next year.
When Hagridorn would side with the Liberals on cases, you know, she would just read in the riot act.
So that's not very collegial.
No, on Keith Gilks, I just, you know, Mark, I don't think he was ever convicted of doing something.
So it was alleged that he was doing something improper.
So let's just keep the record clear there.
And actually that 2015 decision that Rebecca Bradley signed on to.
Uh, that was giving Walker a get out of jail free card and said that coordination with those outside groups was, uh, okay.
Uh, and the, and that they could, you know, spend as much money as possible with a little memo cause Scott Walker.
I have found a great new.
Uh, background hobby and no, it's, I mean, it is weird, but it is legitimate.
I'm being serious.
Um, like, you know how people listen to audiobooks?
There is a, uh, gentleman by the name of Dan Hential that makes like 45 minute long videos, which seem to be out every day that are just a marathon.
of gaslighting.
And I don't know why it's so great to listen to it.
Cause it's just, you know, the story's fake, but it, it's like a good hurt.
us?
I think Schimmel pretty much defeated himself.
He said, without any apologies, yep, I've been bought.
I'm going to do exactly what Trump must tell me to do.
And not only that, but I'm going to ask him for more billions.
And he did.
And he admitted it.
And I think that was probably a fairly large deciding factor in at least the independent vote of mine.
The, the, the demeanor and they're very specific.
I mean, we heard the recordings, Matt over and over again.
You know, I got my knee pads off from an arts.
I think I go big for money and all those kinds of things.
I mean, it just, it wasn't, it was just, it was just so, it was so money focused, man.
It was just so much money.
I rise tonight because I believe sincerely that our country is in crisis.
In just 71 days, the President of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans' safety.
These are not normal times in America.
They should not be treated as such.
I can't allow this body to continue without doing something different, speaking out, the threats to American people.
and American democracy are grave and urgent, and we all must do more.
We all must do more against them.
But those 10 words, if it is to be, it is up to me, because I believe generations from now will look back at this moment and have a single question.
Where were you?
Where were you when our country was in crisis and when American people were asking
for help, help me, help me.
Did, did we speak up?
But for, for, for my value, Matt, the difference between Cory Booker's efforts and,
the senator from New York who signed and got along and did the continuing resolution.
The leader, the minority leader Schumer, thank you, the minority leader Chuck Schumer in the Senate.
I mean, two totally different ways to look at the crisis that we have in this country.
And I like Cory Booker's way better.
I thought Cory Booker did everybody a huge favor in this country who believes in our democracy and despises the direction that Trump and Musk are taking this country.
Finally, we had an elected official.
Stand up to the moment.
And as he put it, it's a moral moment.
It's not a left-right Democratic Republic.
It's a moral moment.
And it was a very powerful performance.
Thank you, Cory Booker.
Hello tomorrow, and goodbye to yesterday.
We've been waiting for this moment, and we still don't know what to say.
We may never find the answers, or know the...
If you got something to say, hit us up right now.
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We'll get your questions, your comments, but you gotta start out by telling us something good.
I got Matt Rothschild here.
We got Jess P.S.
on the board.
Uncle Tony texting, something good from what I heard Corey Booker broke.
Strom Thurman's record for length of speech on the Senate floor.
To
absolutely right.
We want to discriminate.
We don't want those kids in our pools.
I mean, wow, dude, you really, you got to be passionate to speak for 24, 25 hours.
And I think Booker's motivation was much better than Thurman's.
And certainly, let's hear the concluding statement from Senator Cory Booker right now, please, Jess.
It is time to heed the words of the man.
I began this whole thing with John Lewis.
I beg folks to take his example of his early days where he made himself determined to show his love for his country at a time the country didn't love him.
To love this country so much to be such a patriot that he endured beatings Savagely on the Edmund Pettus Bridge at lunch counters on freedom rides.
He said he had to do something He would not normalize a moment like this He would not just go along with business and usual He wouldn't know how to solve it But there's one thing that he would do that I hope we all can do that I think I did a little bit of tonight
He said for us to go out and cause some good trouble Necessary trouble To redeem the soul of our nation.
I want you to redeem the dream.
Let's be bold in America Not to mean and degrade Americans not divide us against each other Let's be bolder in America with a vision that inspires with hope
that starts with the people of the United States of America, that's how this country started, we the people.
Let's get back to the ideals that others are threatening, let's get back to our founding documents, that those imperfect geniuses had some very special words at the end of the Declaration of Independence, was one of the greatest in all of humanity declarations of interdependence.
When our founder said, we must mutually pledge, pledge to each other.
Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
We need that now.
From all Americans, this is a moral moment.
It's not left or right, it's right or wrong.
It's getting good trouble.
My friend, Madam President, I yield the floor.
So this is a poem by a poet I like, Naomi Sheehan.
Nine, she's a leading Palestinian-American poet.
And this is a poem I hadn't read before.
I was looking for a poem about friendship because I love you two guys.
And it's a beautiful poem about the stranger, welcoming the stranger in a poem about friendship.
Red Brocade.
The Arabs used to say, when a stranger appears at your door, feed him for three days before asking,
who he is, where he's come from, where he's headed.
That way, he'll have strength enough to answer.
Or by then, you'll be such good friends, you don't care.
Let's go back to that.
Rice, pine nuts.
Here, take the red brocade pillow.
My child will serve water.
to your horse.
No, I was not busy when you came.
I was not preparing to be busy.
That's the armor everyone put on to pretend they had a purpose in the world.
I refuse to be claimed.
Your plate is waiting.
We will snip fresh mint.
into your tea.
Well, civic media is something good.
And I got a quick comment.
on that election.
I think people are getting sick and tired of Trump's name call.
And I believe he called Susan Crawford a lunatic.
Just don't be for that.
Hey, that's my comment for today.
It was something good.
Some of me does go.
We appreciate that.
Thank you, Don.
My something good.
I got a haircut today, man.
Am I looking younger?
No, nothing does.
I promise to only lie to you about the time.
You totally lied to me about the time.
I don't know if I believe the time right now folks Thank you so much for listening to the Dom Salvia show.
Thank you Matt Rothschild So it's sincerely man.
Love you.
Thank you for everything you do I look forward to coming to Madison get some of that Thai food sometime real soon Just PS working the board working hard cutting up that sound even stuff that I know you don't want to play but you did it for me anyway Thank you so much appreciate that and thank you to our fair audience for playing along listening We will be back on the radio tomorrow.
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