Supreme Court Election Outcome Not What We Wanted

Tgsjmiller   -   April 6, 2023

April 6, 2023

SUPREME COURT ELECTION OUTCOME NOT WHAT WE WANTED

While Tuesday’s election certainly didn’t yield the results we wanted for our State Supreme Court, we had record-breaking voter turnout for a spring election not coinciding with a presidential primary; and not all was lost in the election results as  held the 8th district senate seat in a special election. Conservatives also prevailed in many other local government races.

So let me start by thanking you for all you did to contribute to that record-breaking turn out–voting, encouraging your family and friends to vote, encouraging your church to use appropriate election resources, praying, and the generosity of your financial support to Wisconsin Family Council/Action in our efforts to get like-minded and infrequent voters to the polls! Without you, what we did wouldn’t have been possible. And we’ll definitely share with you the results of our efforts when the data becomes available over the next couple of months.

Political analysts and pundits will undoubtedly spend the next several months looking under rocks to determine what happened and why, but one of the most significant impacts made on our state’s Supreme Court race was the influx of dark money from George Soros and other extreme liberal billionaires (who do not live in Wisconsin), that came shortly after the primary and allowed Protasiewicz to get her TV ads on the air weeks before Dan Kelly to the tune of $10.1M to his $460,000 as of March 22.  That’s an insurmountable difference to overcome with only a couple weeks left in the campaign.

In the midst of all this we must determine what we as conservatives do going forward. For starters, we continue to vote in elections, we help find good candidates to run, we support good people, we hold elected officials accountable. We stay informed and involved. Election results don’t dictate how we live or how we respond. We are in control of both how we live and how we respond…and we need to show the world how true Christianity responds to adversity.

An appropriate capstone for this election and its results is this: Scripture tells us to not grow weary in well-doing, to occupy until Jesus comes. We will all just keep doing right and recognize that each day is the day the Lord has made, and we will rejoice and be glad in it.

Thank you again for all you do. Your efforts and involvement truly make Wisconsin a better state!

If you want more of our election analysis, you can read the transcript from today’s Home Front program or listen to the audio version. On this program I discuss what a super majority in the state senate means. That discussion begins at 8:56 in the audio file.

With thanks,
Julaine Appling
President

Wisconsin School Choice applications are now open!

Visit the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) website to check out the options for your family for the 2023-2024 school year!

View information, deadlines, and applications for school choice programs here!

Abortion Case Oral Arguments Scheduled

Wisconsin State Journal reports that oral arguments are set for May 4, 2023, to determine whether to dismiss the Democrats’ lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s pre-Roe law that prohibits most abortions in Wisconsin.

This is more than ten months after Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) first filed the case. Democrats filed the lawsuit days after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last June, activating the ban that first became law in 1849. The future of this case and other abortion-related issues will likely be decided by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The high court’s terms of office run through the end of July. So the new justice won’t be seated until early August. This case will likely drag on until at least then. In the meantime, every day the abortion ban is in place, babies are being saved—and that’s really good news.

Instill Children with the Truth of This Season During Passion Week

It’s Thursday of the Passion Week. Tomorrow is Good Friday. These are days filled with amazing meaning for Christians and provide a perfect opportunity to build into children, in a fun and memorable way, the truth of this season of the year.

Keeper of the Home website gives practical ideas such as starting with an age-appropriate conversation about Jesus, moving to making meaningful Easter baskets, baking Resurrection rolls or Empty tomb cookies together, doing a resurrection-centered craft, and certainly telling the Easter story.

So often families get all caught up in festivities that don’t really help children understand what we are celebrating. Planning ahead with even just a few ideas that showcase the crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ can make Easter more than just fun for children. It can actually be life-changing as they come to grips with the truths of this holy season.

Wishing you all a blessed Resurrection Sunday from the board and staff of WFC!
*New community event series: Religious Freedom Matters!
Read more about the Religious Freedom Matters! community event series by clicking HERE. Events around Wisconsin are coming soon!*ECFA’s 39th Anniversary Celebration Banquet
Celebrating the 39 years of God’s goodness to ECFA with special guest, Amy Ford of Embrace Grace Ministries, delicious brunch and inspiring client testimonies.
April 22, 2023
Doors open at 8:30; Brunch and Program begin at 9:00
Marriott Milwaukee West, W231N1600 Corporate Ct., Waukesha 53186
Register here

*LEAD WI
July 16-21, 2023
Maranatha Baptist University – Watertown, WI
Register here

 

IN THE MEDIA
WEEKLY RADIO COMMENTARY. “WISCONSIN FAMILY CONNECTION”
Airing this week on over 20 stations statewide. This week: “‘No More Casinos”

  • Click HERE to listen to this week’s Wisconsin Family Connection or read the complete radio commentary.
  • Subscribe to our podcasts HERE!

“WISCONSIN FAMILY MINUTE”
A daily program for Christian radio stations!

  • Listen on our website HERE
  • Click HERE to subscribe to your Wisconsin Family Minute podcasts and never miss an episode!
  • Find your local station to listen live HERE. If the Christian radio station you listen to isn’t carrying “Wisconsin Family Minute,” please encourage them to do so. Contact us at 866-849-2536 or info@wifamilycouncil.org. 

STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH – Q90FM
WFC President Julaine Appling was a guest recently on q90fm’s “Stand Up for the Truth” podcast, hosted by our friend David Fiorazo. You can listen to the podcast HERE. David, Mary (new co-host), and Julaine had a robust discussion on the issues of the day from a Christian perspective.

HOME FRONT/InFOCUS – VCY AMERICA
WFC President Julaine Appling hosts VCY America’s “Home Front” program every Wednesday afternoon (Sept.-May) at 3:15 p.m. On each program Julaine talks about important events happening in Wisconsin. Listen to yesterday’s show HERE.
Click HERE to listen to archived Home Front programs.

Julaine is also a monthly guest on VCY’s TV 30 live call-in program, “InFocus,” hosted by VCY America’s General Manager Jim Schneider. The program is on each Monday evening at 7 p.m., September through May. Julaine joined Jim this past Monday, April 3. Watch online HERE. Julaine will be on InFocus again on next Monday, May 15, 2023.