Wisconsin Democrats hold 'People vs. Musk' town hall to issue call to action for the 2025 spring election
Source: PBS Wisconsin/AP
March 8, 2025
SAUK CITY, Wis. (AP) — They came to vent and to cry and to exhort. The overflow crowd of frustrated Democrats who met this week in a small Wisconsin city’s library voiced anger over President Donald Trump, his billionaire adviser Elon Musk and the direction of the country. One person called for riots. Another said he was embarrassed to be an American. But their barbs weren’t limited to Republicans.
Some Democrats who gathered under St. Patrick’s Day decorations in the Sauk City library’s meeting room questioned their own party’s messaging and expressed fear about losing a high-stakes 2025 state Supreme Court election. The April 1 election will be a litmus test early in Trump’s term in a key presidential swing state. Control of the court is on the line as it faces cases over abortion and reproductive rights, the strength of public sector unions, voting rules and congressional district boundaries.
Sauk County, home to small towns like Baraboo, Prairie du Sac and the tourist city Wisconsin Dells, has voted for the winner of the past five presidential races, including Trump in 2016 and 2024 and former President Joe Biden in 2020. Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Ben Wikler called it “the most bellwether county in the most bellwether state.” More than 170 people turned out for the March 6 event billed by Wisconsin Democrats as a “People v. Musk” town hall. They held signs that said “Don’t Let Elon Musk Buy Wisconsin” and “Trump is Weak on Musk.”
One by one they took the microphone to cajole, rage and commiserate. One transgender woman begged fellow Democrats to “not forget about us.” “We won’t!” someone in the crowd shouted back. The town hall was the first of several planned to generate excitement for the Democratic-backed candidate running in the state Supreme Court election, Susan Crawford. She is running against Brad Schimel, a former Republican state attorney general supported by Musk.
Read more: https://pbswisconsin.org/news-item/wisconsin-democrats-hold-people-vs-musk-town-hall-to-issue-call-to-action-for-the-2025-spring-election/
Apparently the "People vs Musk" is a new Democratic Party ad campaign in multiple locations for the elections this year.
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