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RandySF

(73,078 posts)
Mon Feb 17, 2025, 08:03 PM Feb 17

Group tied to Elon Musk investing in Wisconsin ahead of Supreme Court race

A political action committee backed by billionaire Elon Musk has scheduled hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of TV ads in Wisconsin this week with the state Supreme Court election fast approaching.

The ads are expected to aid conservative Brad Schimel who is running against liberal Susan Crawford in a race that will determine the ideological balance of the court.

The ads from the Musk-backed Building America’s Future will start running on stations around Wisconsin Thursday and will continue through early March.

Available contracts posted by the Federal Communications Commission show more than $400,000 worth of ads will run in the Madison, Eau Claire, Wausau and Green Bay areas. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports more than $255,000 more will also be running in and around Milwaukee.

The FCC data doesn’t identify the content of Building America’s ads. However, the ads are expected to aid Schimel, the state’s former Republican attorney general. On Jan. 27, Musk called on Wisconsin residents to “vote Republican to prevent voting fraud” in a post on the social media site X, which he owns.


https://www.wpr.org/news/elon-musk-building-americas-future-pac-wisconsin-supreme-court-schimel-crawford

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Group tied to Elon Musk investing in Wisconsin ahead of Supreme Court race (Original Post) RandySF Feb 17 OP
I hate him. We are finally starting to rebound from AllyCat Feb 17 #1
Whomever Musk is backing will win. Botany Feb 17 #2
Limits ? PhilG Feb 18 #3

AllyCat

(17,727 posts)
1. I hate him. We are finally starting to rebound from
Mon Feb 17, 2025, 08:07 PM
Feb 17

The disastrous Walker years and now this spoiled, narcissistic toddler with too much money shows up to buy a seat to stop democracy here too.

Botany

(73,724 posts)
2. Whomever Musk is backing will win.
Mon Feb 17, 2025, 08:26 PM
Feb 17

I can almost can guarantee it. Trump, "You will never have to vote again." July, 28 2024 to a group of Christian voters.

Why do I think that Musk already has it fixed?

PhilG

(26 posts)
3. Limits ?
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 02:03 PM
Feb 18

Gee, if only there were some kind of limits on how much a person could contribute to a campaign....

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