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Justice Patience Roggensack wrongly lists judge as endorser
MADISON, Mar 03, 2013 (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
Justice Patience Roggensack wrongly listed a reserve judge as one of her endorsers despite being told that he would not support her.
A Roggensack campaign adviser said the name was listed in error, and it was removed from her website by Saturday morning. It was the second time Roggensack listed an endorsement on her website that she did not actually receive.
Roggensack faces Marquette University law professor Ed Fallone in the April 2 election. The winner will serve a 10-year term on the seven-member court.
Robert E. Kinney, a reserve judge who spent more than 30 years as an Oneida County Circuit Court judge, said Roggensack asked him to endorse her in November but he declined. He discovered he had been listed as a backer on her website on Thursday and sent her an email asking for his name to be taken down.
"Near the end of our conversation, I told you that I disagreed with your position in virtually every 4-3 decision rendered by our court, and, for that reason, the best you could hope for from me was that I wouldn't endorse anyone. Surely you must remember that," Kinney wrote in his email.
"I don't know how this mistake was made, and I certainly hope that it does not call into question the accuracy of the rest of your list," he added, saying he thought candidates in statewide races usually had endorsers sign statements of support to avoid mistakes.
In an interview, Kinney said Roggensack wrote him back Thursday to say his name had been included on the site by mistake and that it would be removed. He said he was pleased with her response and had not intended for his email to Roggensack to become public.
Kinney said he declined to endorse Roggensack because he differed with certain court decisions, though he declined to name them.
"The primary thing (in deciding whether to endorse) is deciding cases, and on that we're just a long way apart," he said in an interview. "So I couldn't consider endorsing her."
Roggensack campaign adviser Brandon Scholz said the campaign assembled a list of more than 100 judges who are backing Roggensack and inadvertently included Kinney's name on it. He said he was "absolutely confident" the others listed had endorsed Roggensack and that Kinney's name would be quickly removed from the site.
In January, the Journal Sentinel reported that Roggensack had listed on her website that she had been endorsed by Joseph Kearney, the dean of Marquette Law School, but that he had not actually endorsed her. Roggensack's campaign manager said at the time that was a mistake.
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