Possibly lost in the hoopla (get it?) over the Badgers in the national men’s basketball championship game is the fact that Wisconsin’s spring election is today.

Statewide, there are two votes — one for the Supreme Court and one about the Supreme Court. The former is Justice Ann Walsh Bradley’s attempt to succeed Shirley Abrahamson as the next chief justice. (Bradley has been on the court since 1995.)

Normally Supreme Court races should attract little attention, except in our hyperpoliticized times, where the court system is just, to borrow von Clausewitz’s description of war, politics by other means. So when Bradley makes a statement like Act 10 being a “textbook case of unconstitutionality” when it obviously wasn’t, you should ask why she should be on the Supreme Court.

Similarly, when Bradley is willing to let a convicted double murderer go free because of one word, you should question how tough on crime she is, particularly because of the recidivism rate of criminals.

Tied to the Supremes is the referendum allowing justices to choose the chief justice, instead of giving the title to the longest serving justice. If you think about it, it demonstrates the perfect liberal mindset that reared its ugly head during Act 10 — that people should get things merely for showing up (i.e. getting the chief justice title by being on the court the longest) instead of having to earn it (majority vote of the court). That makes a Yes vote on the referendum obvious.

Several school districts have referenda today for building projects or to allow spending beyond revenue caps. There is one referendum about creating a school district, in Caledonia, out of the Racine Unified School District. I don’t live there, but if I did I would certainly vote for the referendum. From what I read, Racine Unified has many of the problems of the worst school district in the state, Milwaukee Public Schools, many of which are the result of excessive size.