Kloppenburg, J

=<div>=<table id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460217296779_7894" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 5px; word-break: break-word; line-height: 19.5px; width: 605px;"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460217296779_7893" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; width: 605px;"><tr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460217296779_7905" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460217296779_7904" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: 1.2em; padding: 0.5em 0px; width: 601px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5broUckniLv%2FAzQoMAu7T1sv4Rs7GgWW" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460217296779_7907" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">he Kochs Make News in Wisconsin as Voters Threaten to Turn Races Upside Down</a>  <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GLKo%2FEMbLI2S598lhgjclWzHT%2B8Xgyj4" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">By Mary Bottari</a> — The Kochs are going to bat for U.S. Senator Ron Johnson. What else are they up to in the Koch subsidiary formerly known as Wisconsin? <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MQjB0XkB414TmjCet15qb2zHT%2B8Xgyj4" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460217296779_7906" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Read more >></a>  
</td></tr><tr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460217296779_7892" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px;"><td id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1460217296779_7891" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; border-spacing: 2px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); line-height: 1.2em; padding: 0.5em 0px; width: 601px;"><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qr1G6PNjBFxDBsGNOpZ02LxOPHaKsU%2FP" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: bold; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">WAR on Voters: Big Money Streams into WI Supreme Court Race with No Disclosure</a>  <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BxiUIjvORiWatmQq28Yx62zHT%2B8Xgyj4" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">By Jessica Mason</a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7SKdYcNb3PlKb36594AjzGzHT%2B8Xgyj4" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Mary Bottari</a> — Here we go again. Another dark money shell game in a critical Wisconsin Supreme Court race.  <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LStnG%2FFOU8kEW59ZN21B42zHT%2B8Xgyj4" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Read more >></a> </td></tr></tbody></table>
--4/1Once again, the biggest spender in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race isn't one of the candidates. It's a little-know dark money group, which is keeping its funders secret from Wisconsinites. Plus, thanks to a recent law change, the supposedly "independent" group is now allowed to coordinate directly with its favored candidate without disclosing that coordination to the public.The secret money group, Wisconsin Alliance for Reform (WAR), was registered by Lorri Pickens, a Koch network operative with ties to the largest-ever campaign finance violation in Wisconsin history.- See more at: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/03/13073/war-wisconsin-voters-big-money-streams-wisconsin-supreme-court-race-no-disclosure#sthash.IyIC4Qkp.dpufAs of March 29, WAR has spent an <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/buying-time-2016-wisconsin" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">estimated</a> $1.4 million on television and radio ads attacking Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg, who challenges Justice Rebecca Bradley in the April 5 election. Bradley was recently appointed to the court by Governor Scott Walker after the death of Justice N. Patrick Crooks in September 2015.WAR's total spending so far appears to be greater than the spending of the candidates combined, <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/buying-time-2016-wisconsin" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">according</a> to a Brennan Center analysis.Coincidentally, two other groups that have spent millions in previous Supreme Court races, WCFG and Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC), have yet to report any spending on the current race. The <a href="http://www.wisdc.org/pr032916a.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Wisconsin Democracy Campaign</a> is not the only group that suspects these groups are bankrolling WAR as a means of keeping their controversial names and practices out of the headlines.The misleading WAR ads try to paint Kloppenburg as soft on crime. One ad <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naal7VkspbU" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">claiming</a> that Kloppenburg let a sex offender off "on a technicality" <a href="http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2016/mar/23/wisconsin-alliance-reform/groups-tv-ad-criticizing-joanne-kloppenburg-leaves/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">was ruled</a> "Mostly False" by Politifact. WAR <a href="http://fox6now.com/2016/03/16/third-party-ad-attacking-joanne-kloppenburg-for-protecting-criminals-is-misleading/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">claimed</a> on March 16 that it would stop running another misleading ad on child sexual abuse after one of the families involved in the case complained that it was "political slander," but as of March 30 the ad was still running on TV and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlgB2-m-RZE" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">available</a> online.At the last minute, the liberal secret money group, <a href="http://www.wisdc.org/gwc2016" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Greater Wisconsin Committee</a>, dropped its own ad <a href="http://www.wisdc.org/gwc2016" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">spending at least $400,000</a> attacking Bradley for <a href="http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/critics-slam-wisconsin-supreme-court-justice-rebecca-bradley-for-birth/article_c6d985d8-ac44-5d7e-9667-c4fdef074f3e.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">2006 column</a> arguing that pharmacists should be allowed to deny people birth control and for for anti-gay columns she penned as a college student.<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">WAR Advances Dark Money Agenda in WI</h2>WAR's website was registered in April 2015 by Lorri Pickens, a <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/lorri_pickens_linkedin.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">former associate director of state operations</a> for David Koch's Americans for Prosperity (AFP) astroturf organization.A well-connected right-wing operative with a long history in Wisconsin, Pickens <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/11/11791/lucy-burns-institute-publishers-ballotpedia-judgepedia-and-wikifoia-and-her-right" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">has previously worked</a> with the Sam Adams Alliance and the Lucy Burns Institute institutions tied to WCFG Director Eric O'Keefe and his wife, Leslie Graves. She also worked <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/lorri_pickens_linkedin.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">as a</a> <a href="https://lobbying.wi.gov/Who/PrincipalInformation/2007REG/PrintAuthorizedLobbyists/2480?prnName=Wisconsin%20Family%20Action%20Inc&print=Tru" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">lobbyist for</a> the anti-LGBT and anti-abortion Wisconsin Family Action. She <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/29194374.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">was also</a> a field coordinator for the campaign to ban same-sex marriage in Wisconsin in 2006.CMD <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/10/12951/kochs-wisconsin-money-government" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">first reported</a> on WAR in October 2015, when the newly-formed group began running radio ads to support a bill to cripple the state elections board. AFP also lobbied in favor of that bill.At the time there was trio of bills undermining Wisconsin anti-corruption laws and clean government tradition. The bills: 1) destroyed the non-partisan board governing campaigns and elections in Wisconsin, putting in place partisan appointees; 2) allowed for unlimited undisclosed money in Wisconsin campaigns by permitting for the first time direct coordination between candidates and so-called issue ad groups; and, 3) exempted politicians from ever being investigated by prosecutors for violations of campaign finance law under the state's unique "John Doe" process, which Wisconsin had traditionally used in lieu of a grand jury.AFP, Wisconsin Family Action, and Wisconsin Right to Life <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/10/12951/kochs-wisconsin-money-government" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">were</a> the only institutions registered as lobbying in support of the bills undermining Wisconsin's anti-corruption laws, although not every group lobbied for each bill.<h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Prior Pickens Group Violated Elections Law in 1997 Supreme Court Race</h2>Using secret money groups to influence campaigns and elections is nothing new for Pickens.In 1997, Pickens <a href="http://www.quest-online.com/NewFiles/Quest_Newsroom_46.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">was an officer </a>for an "independent" group that received the largest penalty ever levied for election violations in the state of Wisconsin. The case involved a new spending group called the Wisconsin Coalition for Voter Participation (WCVP). Investigators found that WCVP <a href="http://www.quest-online.com/NewFiles/Quest_Newsroom_46.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">illegally coordinated</a> with the campaign of state Supreme Court Justice Jon Wilcox on campaign mailers. While Pickens herself was not prosecuted, her husband Brent, who set up WCVP, was fined $15,000 and banned from politics for five years. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Mark_Block" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Marc Block</a>, who simultaneously served as Wilcox's campaign chair and headed WCVP, was fined $10,000 and banned from politics for three years. In total, some $60,000 in fines were levied. Block later took his talents to the Koch's <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/11/11114/cmds-quick-guide-mark-block-blocktopus" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">AFP group</a> and the campaign of Herman Cain <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/11/11114/cmds-quick-guide-mark-block-blocktopus" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">where he ran into more trouble.</a><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;">Groups Implicated in the John Doe Investigation of Dark Money</h2>Pickens did not seem to learn much from the 1997 experience....- See more at: http://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/03/13073/war-wisconsin-voters-big-money-streams-wisconsin-supreme-court-race-no-disclosure#sthash.IyIC4Qkp.dpuf</div><div>
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</div><div>JoAnne Kloppenburg is a former Assistant Attorney General of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Wisconsin" title="State of Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">State of Wisconsin</a>, serving from 1989-2012 under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Republican</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democratic</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Wisconsin" title="Governor of Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Governors</a>and a judge of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Court_of_Appeals" title="Wisconsin Court of Appeals" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wisconsin Court of Appeals</a>. She ran for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> in April 2011 against incumbent Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prosser,Jr." title="David Prosser, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">David Prosser</a>.On April 6, the day after the election, Kloppenburg held an unofficial 204-vote lead over Prosser, and prematurely declared victory. On April 7, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukesha_County,Wisconsin" title="Waukesha County, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Waukesha County</a> clerk announced she had erroneously failed to include more than 14,000 votes in her reported totals, which gave Prosser a lead of more than 7,000 votes out of 1,500,000 cast statewide. Kloppenburg requested the recount she was entitled to by statute, which would be paid for by the state (at the cost of as much as $500,000)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a> since the margin of the vote was less than one half of one percent. After the recount certified Prosser as the winner by 7,004 votes, Kloppenburg conceded the election.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; font-size: 13.3000001907349px; display: table; zoom: 1; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: black; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 13.3000001907349px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#Career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1 Career</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#Education" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.1 Education</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#Public_service_and_career" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1.2 Public service and career</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_election" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2 Wisconsin Supreme Court election</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#Newspaper_endorsements" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2.1 Newspaper endorsements</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#Results" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2.2 Results</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#Wisconsin_Court_of_Appeals" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3 Wisconsin Court of Appeals</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#Electoral_history" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4 Electoral history</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5 Personal life</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">6 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">7 External links</a></li></ul></div></div><div>
</div><div><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Career</h2><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Education</h3>Kloppenburg was born JoAnne Fishman in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avon,Connecticut" title="Avon, Connecticut" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Avon, Connecticut</a> to Dr. Elihu Fishman and his wife. She attended high school in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut" title="Connecticut" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Connecticut</a>, and attended <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Yale University</a> with a scholarship, a year after it began accepting women for study in 1969.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>] She received her B.A. in Russian studies from there, and went to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_School_of_Public_and_International_Affairs" title="Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Woodrow Wilson School</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Princeton University</a> afterwards, originally intending to eventually become an ambassador. Instead, she shifted her focus to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_world" title="Third world" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">third world</a>development, and received her <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Public_Affairs" title="Master of Public Affairs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Master of Public Affairs</a> degree in 1976.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-madison1-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Public service and career</h3>After graduation, Kloppenburg joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Corps" title="Peace Corps" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Peace Corps</a> and became a rural development planner in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botswana" title="Botswana" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Botswana</a> from 1976-1979. She intended to be there for two years, but the government of Botswana asked her to stay for another year afterwards to direct rural development for the entire country.After returning to the United States, Kloppenburg worked on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIC" title="WIC" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children</a> in upstate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">New York</a>, and was also an assistant dean at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_College" title="Wells College" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wells College</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,Cayuga_County,New_York" title="Aurora, Cayuga County, New York" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Aurora, New York</a> at the same time.Next, she attended law school at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin" title="University of Wisconsin" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">University of Wisconsin</a>, while interning for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Chief Justice</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Abrahamson" title="Shirley Abrahamson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Shirley Abrahamson</a> and clerking for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_district_court" title="United States district court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">U.S. District Court</a> Judge Barbara Crabb. In 1989, Kloppenburg joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Department_of_Justice" title="Wisconsin Department of Justice" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wisconsin Department of Justice</a>, eventually serving under four different Wisconsin Attorneys General, two of each party. Since 1991, she has been in the environmental protection unit, enforcing the state's environmental laws. She has also taught at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_Law_School" title="University of Wisconsin Law School" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">University of Wisconsin Law School</a> since 1990 and is currently is a mentor with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dane_County,Wisconsin" title="Dane County, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Dane County</a> Bar Association, an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESL" title="ESL" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">English as a Second Language</a> (ESL) tutor, and a member of her neighborhood association board.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-madison1-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-campaign-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-for_an_impartial-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wisconsin Supreme Court election</h2><div class="hatnote relarticle mainarticle" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court_election,2011" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court election, 2011" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court election, 2011</a></div>Kloppenburg faced incumbent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prosser,Jr." title="David Prosser, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David Prosser, Jr.</a> in an election on April 5, 2011. The election received considerable attention due to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests" title="2011 Wisconsin protests" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">2011 Wisconsin protests</a> regarding the budget repair bill, which was considered likely to come before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a>, as well as several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prosser,Jr.#Controversies" title="David Prosser, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">controversies regarding the incumbent</a>. Both candidates stated their unhappiness regarding the increased partisan aspect of the race.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-unhappy-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-face_off-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> The race was also seen more generally as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendum" title="Referendum" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">referendum</a> on the administration of Governor Scott Walker.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-madison1-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-race_all_about-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[8]</a>Kloppenburg was endorsed by Marla Stephens,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-statement-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[9]</a> one of her opponents in the February primary election.She described the central themes of her campaign as her independence and impartiality, citing as an example her refusal of special-interest money.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-imperative-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[10]</a> She stated, "I have not wavered in my beliefs and will not start if I am elected as a justice. My focus will be on the court without any political bias."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-points_to_impartiality-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[11]</a> This theme was praised by local newspapers, such as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Press-Gazette" title="Green Bay Press-Gazette" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Green Bay Press-Gazette</a>, which agreed that independence is a quality "critical for justices to rule fairly."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-greenbaypressgazette1-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a>Prosser described her as an 'unbending ideologue' with 'extreme political and social views' which he did not specify, pointing to her past internship with Chief Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Abrahamson" title="Shirley Abrahamson" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Shirley Abrahamson</a>, whom he called an 'activist' and 'total bitch.'<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-unions_attack-13" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a> In response, Kloppenburg replied, "It's ludicrous to say someone will be the clone of someone they interned for many years ago."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-jsonline1-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a>Prosser later specified his comments by calling Kloppenburg "way out on the fringe", "a very liberal Democrat who has wandered into supporting Green Party candidates." Kloppenburg's husband had previously supported <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Manski" title="Ben Manski" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Ben Manski</a>, a former student of his who was a Green Party candidate for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Wisconsin State Assembly" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wisconsin State Assembly</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-touts_rulings-15" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[15]</a> Manski placed second in the election with 31% of the vote, 11% more than the Republican candidate.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-green_2010-16" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[16]</a>Prosser also attacked Kloppenburg's qualifications, stating that she has only prosecuted "DNR regulations of docks … the length of docks. The width of docks. Whether people can have docks." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact.com" title="PolitiFact.com" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">PolitiFact.com</a>, an independent fact-checker, rated this claim as "Pants on Fire" for being 'ridiculous' as well as completely incorrect.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-says_challenger-17" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[17]</a>At a candidate forum, Prosser asked Kloppenburg to take down a controversial third-party ad attacking Prosser on his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prosser,Jr.#Decision_not_to_prosecute_abuse_case" title="David Prosser, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">decision not to prosecute a sexual abuse case</a> involving a priest and young boys. Kloppenburg responded by stating that the ad wasn't hers, and "Like it or not, third parties have a First Amendment right to run ads of their own choosing."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-jsonline1-14" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[14]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-chicago_trib-18" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[18]</a>On March 28, anonymous Republican sources said that the race was close to even.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-democrats_try-19" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[19]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-fight_goes-20" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[20]</a> State officials expected a turnout of around 20%, a typical level of turnout for an April election.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-20_percent-21" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[21]</a>On March 31, Prosser's campaign co-chairman, former Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Lucey" title="Patrick Lucey" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Patrick Lucey</a> resigned from Prosser's campaign and endorsed Kloppenburg, attributing his decision to Prosser's "disturbing distemper and lack of civility", while praising Kloppenburg for showing "promising judicial temperament and good grace, even in the heat of a fierce campaign."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-former_gov-22" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[22]</a>Kloppenburg's opponents ran an advertisement claiming she, "is so extreme she even put an 80-year-old farmer in jail for refusing to plant native vegetation on his farm." This claim has been rated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact.com" title="PolitiFact.com" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">PolitiFact.com</a> as "Pants on Fire" for being "ridiculously false." Specifically, the farmer was found in contempt of court three times by two different judges, including Randy Koschnick, a conservative.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-waffles-23" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[23]</a> The farmer was ultimately jailed for five days; the specific reasons for the jailing were that he had repeatedly over 11 years ignored orders by county, state, and court officials to take action to rectify an erosion problem. Kloppenburg herself played a minor part at most in the affair.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-ad_says-24" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[24]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-reality_check-25" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[25]</a>Politifact also weighed in on a number of Kloppenburg's statements involving Prosser. Kloppenburg had previously said that Prosser was likely to prejudge matters before the court. This was ruled "Barely True", meaning that it was factually correct but had important omissions, as according to Politifact, Kloppenberg's examples were not specific enough.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-Kloppenburg_says-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a> Kloppenburg was given a "Pants On Fire" for claiming her previous statement about Prosser prejudging was considered true by Politifact.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-Kloppenburg_says-26" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[26]</a>National groups spent heavily on the race, with about $1.4 million spent by pro-union/Democratic groups and $2.1 million spent by conservative groups.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-public_financing-27" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[27]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Newspaper endorsements</h3>In the primary, JoAnne Kloppenburg was endorsed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wausau_Daily_Herald" title="Wausau Daily Herald" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wausau Daily Herald</a> (which endorsed both Kloppenburg and Prosser).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-wausau1-28" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[28]</a> She has been endorsed in the general election by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appleton_Post-Crescent" title="Appleton Post-Crescent" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Appleton Post-Crescent</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-appleton_post1-29" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[29]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-appleton_post2-30" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[30]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wausau_Daily_Herald" title="Wausau Daily Herald" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wausau Daily Herald</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-wausau-31" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[31]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Badger_Herald" title="The Badger Herald" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Badger Herald</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-badger-32" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[32]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Bay_Press_Gazette" title="Green Bay Press Gazette" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Green Bay Press Gazette</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-greenbaypressgazette1-12" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[12]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshfield,Wisconsin" title="Marshfield, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Marshfield</a> News Herald,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-marshfield-33" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[33]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens_Point,Wisconsin" title="Stevens Point, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Stevens Point</a> Journal,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-stephens_point-34" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[34]</a> the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd_Express" title="Shepherd Express" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Shepherd Express</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-shepherd-35" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[35]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_Northwestern" title="Oshkosh Northwestern" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Oshkosh Northwestern</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-oshkosh-36" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[36]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitowoc_Herald_Times_Reporter" title="Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-manitowoc-37" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[37]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Rapids_Daily_Tribune" title="Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-wisconsin_rapids-38" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[38]</a> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheboygan_Press" title="Sheboygan Press" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Sheboygan Press</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-sheboygan-39" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[39]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capital_Times" title="The Capital Times" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Capital Times</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-capital_times-40" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[40]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Results</h3>On April 6, after a preliminary count was released stating Kloppenburg held a 204-vote lead over Justice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prosser,Jr." title="David Prosser, Jr." style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">David Prosser</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-county-41" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[41]</a> she issued a statement declaring victory and thanking Justice Prosser for his decades of public service.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-declares-42" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[42]</a> A recount of the votes was described by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Los Angeles Times</a> as "inevitable."[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>]On April 7, re-canvassing began to verify to election results, and errors were found in counties favoring both candidates; Prosser gained votes from Winnebago and Waukesha, while Kloppenburg regained ground from a scattering of other counties including Grant, Portage, Door, Iowa, Rusk, Vernon, and Shawano.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[43]</a>An April 7 news conference by the Waukesha County Clerk announced that an estimated 14,000 votes were not counted in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookfield,Wisconsin" title="Brookfield, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Brookfield, Wisconsin</a> because she had made an error while saving data on her personal computer. The addition of the missing votes gave Prosser a commanding lead of more than 7,000 votes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-contenders-44" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[44]</a>On April 15, the canvass was completed, showing that Prosser had a lead of 7,316 votes, a margin of 0.488%. Because the margin of victory was less than 0.5%, Kloppenburg was legally entitled to a recount, which would be paid for by state taxpayers. Following the recount, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Government_Accountability_Board" title="Wisconsin Government Accountability Board" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wisconsin Government Accountability Board</a>, which oversees elections, certified Prosser as the winner by a margin of 7,004. On May 31, 2011 Kloppenburg conceded the election.<h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wisconsin Court of Appeals</h2>In the April 2012 Wisconsin General Election, Kloppenburg was elected to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Court_of_Appeals" title="Wisconsin Court of Appeals" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Wisconsin Court of Appeals</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoAnne_Kloppenburg#cite_note-wicourts.gov-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Electoral history</h2></div><div>==</div></div>