Election Preview: Ozaukee County Circuit Court Judge (Branch 2)
Incumbent Tom Wolfgram and newcomer Joe Voiland are running in the April 2 election for the Branch 2 judge's position on the Ozaukee County Circuit Court.
Port Washington and Saukville voters will head to the polls April 2 to vote on several races, including a contested race for Ozaukee County Circuit Court Branch 2 judge.
Incumbent Tom Wolfgram and newcomer Joe Voiland are running for the spot. (Click on link for biographical information on each candidate).
Patch asked candidates for their positions on key issues in the race, but neither candidate responded to the questionnaire. Here is some information about each candidate's experience from their websites:
Joe Voiland
"(Joe) has been a public service special prosecutor for the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office in the prosecution of cases against parents of abused or neglected children; counsel to the State of Wisconsin in the litigation regarding the State’s congressional and legislative redistricting; counsel to Justice David Prosser during the recount of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election; and counsel to the campaign for governor in Green for Wisconsin v. State Elections Board, a case involving campaign finance at the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Previously, he served as law clerk at the Wisconsin Supreme Court to Justice Diane S. Sykes, now judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit."
Tom Wolfgram
"In these 18 years I have ruled on thousands of criminal cases, sentencing defendants to substantial prison terms when appropriate. I have presided over hundreds of jury trials. I’ve handled thousands of civil cases involving substantial property rights and presided over complicated civil litigation. I’ve presided over thousands of family cases often requiring difficult decisions on custody and placement of children making decisions to safeguard the child’s welfare paramount and promoting their best interests. Also, several hundred juvenile cases have come before me. I have made dispositions that will protect the public and also promote rehabilitation."
Greg
12:28 pm on Saturday, March 23, 2013
This is an interesting race. When an average person is brought into the justice system they are not judged on the thousands of things they did right in their life, they are judged on the one thing they did wrong. Wolfgram screwed up and an electorate of his peers may give him thumbs down. I will be voting for Voiland, if for no other reason than to send a message to others that may want to try what the defendant, I mean Wolfgram, has done.
Hey, it's kinda fun playing judge.
Terry
8:27 pm on Tuesday, March 26, 2013
All I need to know about how I am going to vote here comes from speaking with those I know in law enforcement. If you know any, ask them. It seems almost a complete sweep that they will be voting for Wolfgram. That says something to me.
Rudy Kuss
7:19 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Judge Wolfgram's opponent does not have the respect of Ozaukee County prosecutors, attorneys, sheriffs, or police officers. He has never even appeared in a case as an attorney in Ozaukee County or prosecuted or defended a criminal case in any Wisconsin Court. Voting him onto the bench would be reckless, even dangerous. Don't place the politics of the day ahead of public safety.
Greg
11:14 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Being a charter member of the Good Ole Boy Club hardly makes for a good judge. Wolfgram does make it easy for the attorneys in the Ozaukee County Courts. Many cases are determined, with a wink and a nod, prior to any court action. One attorney I know said Wolfgram could be replaced with a vending machine. He is too comfortable in his position and change is good.
Saying that electing Voiland would be reckless even dangerous is just wrong. Joe Voiland has the experience and endorsements that say otherwise. The Ozaukee county judicial system has enough depth to bring on a new judge and it could be easily argued that the timing could not be better.
Rudy Kuss
2:18 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
So being endorsed by anyone who knows how the courts work makes Judge Wolfgram a "good ole boy"?!? Given Boy Blunder's performance at Thursday's debate, he won't survive his first day as duty judge. Just wait until the first murderer, rapist or child molester has his conviction reversed on appeal because of errors in his trial.
Greg
4:00 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
I highly doubt that the county could not survive without Tom Wolfgram.
Rudy Kuss
2:36 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
I feel for Judge Malloy and Judge Williams, who will see their dockets explode if Voiland gets elected. I would have to substitute on him or risk losing my malpractice insurance coverage.
Tom Long
4:02 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Right, All of the officials and employees of the courts and law enforcement supporting Wolfgram says something all right. The key is whether or not you are intelligent enough to figure out what it says, or whether you are only dumb enough to believe that it says what they want you to believfe it says. From personal knowledge I know that It says that all of the corrupt are sticking together so that a newcomer can not interrupt their massive conspired felony corruption scheme, DRIP
Terry
7:31 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Oooo... Been a while since we have heard from the aluminum hat club. Yes, Tom your are right, it is part of a massive conspiracy of the Trilateral Commission, the Alien Xoltorian Empire, and the Russian Mob to corrupt our county law enforcement.
These always amuse me. To actually be corrupt, you have to find someone willing to pay you to be corrupt. Who is here to do that in Ozaukee County? Who would have the massive money and influence, coupled with the need to, corrupt the whole network of our counties law enforcement agencies?
You claim to be in the know Tom. Name names. Who is behind the corruption? Who is pulling the strings? To what gain are the operating under? You say you are dialed in Tom, educate us.
At least if the black helicopters don't get you first.
Tom Long
2:20 pm on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Some of us have wondered what the reason is for all of this tightly-bonded freneticism of the courthouse holders to re-elect Judge Wolfgram. It seems too driven to just be political, especially since DA Gerol's letter to the Press said that he supports Wolfgram because he always gets what he wants from Wolfgram, a very incendiary statement if one wants justice.
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Clerk of Courts Mueller uses the help of the Sheriff's subordinates to extort and threaten public records requestors with arrest if they do not leave empty-handed. Examinations of some other files show that Clerk Mueller and some Ozaukee Circuit Court judges have also been corruptly aiding a law firm that extorts money from uninformed defendants by frauds and court corruption.
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Thus, it doesn't take too much grey matter to determine that a reason for all of this frenzied support for Wolfgram may likely be non-political corruption-protection. Thus, the real question becomes whether 18 years on the bench have made or allowed Wolfgram to become corrupt. It seems obvious that these other courthouse officials and employees think so.
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Because of the evidenced joined-mass-felony corruption of Clerk of Courts Mueller and Sheriff Straub and subordinates, I am today filing with Presiding Judge Tom Wolfgram, my request for his removing the Ozaukee County Clerk of Courts Mary Lou Mueller for her masses of corruption felonies, including concealing and falsifying case file public records, and more
Mike
4:22 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
Rudy claims that voting Voiland onto the bench would be reckless, even dangerous due to his inexperience. I hope he applied this same reasoning to Obama the first time he ran. I know alot of voters didn't.
Rudy Kuss
4:48 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
You're accusing Sheriff Straub, District Attorney Gerol, Judge Malloy, and Judge Williams of being part of a "massive conspired corrupt felon scheme"?!? Do you have any evidence supporting your defamatory allegations?
Tom Long
2:10 pm on Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Yes lots, but you likely don't, because you likely haven't put in the thousands of hours I have in investigating and setting up these officials to EVIDENCE their mass felony crimes corruption. DA Gerol says in an open letter to the editor of the aiding and joining in these crimes Ozaukee Press, that he ALWAYS gets what HE wants from Judge Wolfgram. How would you like to be a criminal defense attorney with an innocent client (or worse, be the innocent client) and have Wolfgram sentence you to prison for 20 years, or 10, because DA Gerol wanted it and got what he wanted from Judge Wolfgram?
There is much more. You just need to get off your butt and get down to the courthouse and actively investigate the criminal corruption that is going on there between the Sheriff's department, the judges, the Clerk of Courts and the DA.
Just do it.