Former Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke made one thing clear on Monday: she’s not running for office statewide again.
Her comments come almost a week after she was defeated by Gov. Scott Walker (R) in the midterm elections.
“I think I just don’t really fit the mold,” Burke said according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
But Burke did say that she would decide whether she would run for her old seat on the Madison School Board.
Sad, but certainly understandable.
Kudos for her for a good fight.
Maybe Martha Oakley can follow Burke’s lead and go away and never surface in another MA election.
I voted for Mary Burke and believed she would have been a great replacement for the scoundrel Walker, after this sham of an election I will vote but that will be about all no volunteering or driving people to the polls, I really believe like the lottery the elections are rigged and this will likely be my last visit here or any political website, The Fixx is in . Same as it ever was .
If she doesn’t “fit the mold” and she knows that she doesn’t fit the mold, this begs the question why the Democratic Party didn’t field a candidate who was more suited to run for statewide office. I am not a Wisconsin-ite and I know very little about Mary Burke, but this seems like basic politics. Walker is a scoundrel and he is not particularly popular - the Dems had a real chance and they should not have blown it on a candidate who, by her own estimation, did not “fit the mold.”
I know how you feel. If Jeb Bush makes it through the republican primaries, he will probably be the nominee and with the senate and house safely in republican hands, we are done. I don’t have faith that an HRC will beat Jeb Bush and he will definitely steal away a lot of the hispanic vote.