WI election: Kloppenburg up by 140 votes

Good morning. We will recall Koch whore Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in 271 days.

Koch-ticians like Walker got a wake-up call this morning. It said, "You better think twice before you start attacking workers' rights."

Yesterday's election left little doubt. What was supposed to be an easy win for Walker clone incumbent state Supreme Court Justice David Prosser is so close it will almost certainly go to recount. His challenger, Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg, was barely known throughtout the state before the election. Last we heard, she's up by 140 votes.

Here's the big news: Another little-known Democrat opened a can of whoop-ass on Walker's hand-picked candidate for Milwaukee County executive (Walker's old job). Talking Points Memo reports:

Democrats have now drawn political first blood in Wisconsin, in the fight over Republican Gov. Scott Walker's anti-public employee union law: In Milwaukee County, where Walker had previously been elected three times as county executive, the Dem-supported candidate has won in a rout -- and defeated a Republican state legislator who voted for Gov. Walker's bill....

The Milwaukee County race is officially non-partisan, but with 90% of precincts reporting, businessman and philanthropist Chris Abele, who has been a Democratic donor and is supported by the party, leads Republican state Rep. Jeff Stone by a whopping margin of 61%-39%.

Here's more good news:  Republican Sen. Dan Hanky-Kapanke, the first to face recall, is in a district where
Kloppenburg won by more than 7000 votes.

And one of the biggest schmucks in Congress, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (the guy who wants to eliminate Medicare and Social Security), lives in Kloppenburg country.