no. the caucus is controlled by the speaker. meanwhile, the walker administration is asking the state supreme court to enter a restraining order. the state attorney general alleges a county judge airmy ann sumi overstepped her authority and asked the high court to immediately stay the restraining order citing lost saving to the state. time to bring in john nichols, washington correspondent of the nation. good to have you with us tonight, john. i cannot believe that we ve just reported all this on this program in the last three minutes. the county forgets the second largest city in her county, the county of 40,000 people, this clerk, a former republican staffer as you ve reported, has a long history of secretive and erratic activities.
but if those ballots are impounded, and also, if the right demands are made, the kloppenberg campaign can force a recount of those waukesha county ballots. they would have to pay for it. but frankly, at this point i think there would be plenty of wisconsinites who are willing to put down the money to pay for a ballot by ballot count to make sure that this election has not been messed with. this is an absolutely amazing development. how do these votes just fall right out of the sky or all of a sudden get picked up off the floor like this. it is an amazing story, especially with kathy nick klol history in the past. will anything come out of this? i think the walker administration is certainly going to feel empowered by this. but again this piles on to a host of incredibly scandalous and controversial developments. some of them may ultimately turn out to be legitimate. but when you put this into the
she finds precisely the number of votes that david prosser needs to avoid an official recount, and then the information doesn t come out in major media in the state, the newspapers, television stations, that have been covering this story from the start, but rather on right wing blogs and right wing talk radio. where does this take us, john? it takes us to a point where wisconsinites are justifiably skeptical about what has happened. recounts often produce unexpected twists and turns. votes turn up. but this is an unprecedented number of votes. so the former attorney general said this needs an investigation and inquiry. there s a lot of questions about how you would investigate. kloppenberg campaign has this evening mounted an open records request looking for all the computer data and communication information between the county
flipping over to kloppenberg. no big deal there either, right? and what about democrat chris abole winning the executive seat in the county by a margin 61-39. that s the job scott walker left to become governor. i guess that really doesn t mean anything either, does it. according to brennan center, $3.5 million of special interest money was spent on the race, $1.4. went to kloppenberg, walkers allies outspent the democrats 2-1 and the result was still a 50-50 election. no matter what the republicans say, scott walker knows that this race was bad news, that the conservative supreme court justice can lose nearly 50% of his voter base from the last leak, imagine what s going to happen when the recall elections get under way later this year. that s the takedown. next, the latest on the
information between the county clerk and outside parties. also the group citizen action has asked that the u.s. attorney impound the ballots in waukesha county and also seek the phone and computer records of the county clerk particularly for those communications with outside actors. so the wheels are in motion to make sure this is all on the up an up, the kloppenberg camp on the move right now and also the activist group that you just mentioned. this could stop the recount. or stop the process before it even gets started. and it would seem to me with the republicans in power and the governor where he is right now he might be on solid ground to just move forward and implement this bill. what do you think? i think this is so very controversial, ed, that we re going to have to watch as the rest of the counties in the state go through their canvas. david prosser is right on the edge of being outside the official recount number.