Milwaukee World: GABLER FOR JUDGE USES SCOTT WALKER WEBSITE

Republican Party Bosses
Meddle in Judicial Campaign

Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld

By Michael Horne

And The Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team

A Federal judge has ruled that judges and judicial candidates in Wisconsin may belong to political parties, even though the office is nonpartisan in this state. Hon. Barbara B. Crabb [U Wisconsin '62], of the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin issued the opinion on February 17th, 2009.

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge John Siefert asked for the ruling, arguing political parties have already been muscling into judicial territory lately, particularly in the most recent Supreme Court election in which challenger Michael Gabelman [we'll call him the "Republican"] beat incumbent Louis B. Butler [the "Democrat"] using time-honored tricks from the partisan playbook.
By allowing identification with a political party, Judge Crabb allows judicial candidates the same freedom as others who run for nonpartisan office.

Take, for example, Scott Walker, the Milwaukee County Executive who is planning a run for Governor. Everybody knows he's a Republican.
Next, let's google "Daniel Gabler for judge." We hear Gabler is the favorite of the Republicans in the upcoming race fir circuit court.
When we do so, this is the result:

Daniel Gabler for Circuit Court Judge

The Official Website of Scott Walker for Milwaukee County Executive.
www.gablerforjudge.com/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages -

Well, that settles that!
Looks like Gabler is using a leftover website from the Walker run for County Executive.
Maybe someday he can step up and run for Appeals Court using Walker's left over Gubernatorial website.
Gabler's opponent in the race for Branch 15 to succeed Michael Brennan is attorney J.D. Watts.
He uses his own website and not a hand-me-down on loan from the Republican party bosses.

[And, when on the Gabler / Walker site, if you go to "View Source" you get this information, which is messing with my formatting here--Ed.]:

<meta name='copyright' content='Copyright (c) 2007, Friends of Scott Walker. All Rights Reseved.
Site designed by Remington Tonar: remtonar.com' />
<meta name="description" content="The Official Website of Scott Walker for Milwaukee County Executive" />
<meta name="keywords" content="elect scott, elect walker,
elect scott walker, scott walker, walker,
scott, milwaukee, county executive,
milwaukee county executive, election,
lena taylor, republican, gop, milwaukee gop, milwaukee republican" /

2 Comments:

At 1:22 PM, Anonymous said...: Perhaps you have some facts wrong or are just trying to be misleading.

Walker's website is www.scottwalker.org
Gabler's site is www.gablerforjudge.com

the only connection between the sites is that the same designer did both. The only way you see the connection is if you go to view source. The designer did apparently reuse some code.

Yes Walker has endorsed Gabler. He also has Republicans and Democrats, like former DA Mike McCann's, endorsement.

Your story is inaccurate. They are not using the same website, but I guess the facts are not that important in MiwaukeeWorld....
At 2:23 PM, Michael Horne said...: Anonymous -- as always you are a damned, insulting fool. How dare you accuse me of being "intentionally misleading?" The nerve!
My post is quite clear about the status of that website at the time I wrote my post. Look at the printout I included right in the post. I did not fabricate that or anything else that appears here.
My story is not inaccurate. I said it looked like a recycled website, and even you admit "the designer did apparently reuse some code."
And that is not the only connection between the two campaigns, as you seem to think, you poor, slinking anonymity.
Go find something to do and stay away from Milwaukeeworld. If you ever have the nerve to identify yourself, anonymous, I'm ready to talk one-on-one.
Horne