Mark Belling Podcast #174: Mark uses the case of a local bleeding heart judge to demonstrate how electing a Democrat governor makes the state far less safe because every judicial vacancy in Wisconsin is filled by a Governor appointment and Democrats only name soft on crime judges. Can MPS become any more of a joke? A fake teacher wanders into a school and blathers for two hours before any of the MPS dolts know it's even happening.

I want to talk about what I think is the biggest unspoken issue in the governor's election in Wisconsin.

I never think Republican candidates make a big enough deal of this in part because it requires a little bit of explanation.

Well, I'm good at explaining.

There are people who believe that the issue of crime doesn't come in to a governor's election because what does a governor have to do with crime? Here's the response to that.

Under Wisconsin law, Every single vacancy for judge in the state from circuit court on up is filled by appointment by the governor.

Doesn't have to be confirmed or anything.

The governor names the judge, every circuit judge in the state of Wisconsin, every state appeals court judge and every justice on the Supreme court.

Now, ultimately they have to stand for election.

But they're judges until they stand for election.

And as we all know, in many instances, these judges that are appointed never get opposition when they're up for election.

So we've gone through now eight consecutive years of every single judicial vacancy in Wisconsin having been filled by a Democrat governor, Tony Evers.

And with maybe some exceptions, I admit, I don't know every judge in the state of Wisconsin.

They've been terrible.

One of the hard things for citizens to do is keep track of which judge does what.

You'll hear all the time, for example, when a drunk driving case or some cases handled leniently, people will say, oh, these judges are so soft.

Well, that's true.

Those judges are really soft, but not all judges are soft.

I talk a lot about the concept of judicial roulette.

What happens to you has a lot to do with which judge gets your case.

In counties like Milwaukee, where we have nearly 50 judges, I don't know what the number is, it's way up there, there's actually a handful of pretty tough judges, and one of them is on the criminal rotation right now, David Borowski.

The crook who lands in Borowski's court is less lucky than the crook who lands in the court of one of the many bleeding heart judges Waukesha County has had over the years.

A collection of judges ranging from pretty crappy to really good.

Who your judge is has a lot to do with what your sentence is going to be and how your case is handled.

The only way to illustrate this is to cherry pick.

So I'm going to pull out one case involving one judge and then explain how it's a trend.