Susan Crawford touts work as prosecutor -- and for Democratic priorities -- in Wisconsin Supreme Court bid
On a snowy Saturday in mid-February, a couple dozen people sat around tables at the Black River Area Chamber of Commerce in western Wisconsin. They ate from plates heaped with slaw and stewed chicken as they awaited the morning’s main event: a visit from Dane County Judge Susan Crawford.
Crawford, a liberal, is one of two candidates vying for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Her opponent, Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel, is the state’s former Republican attorney general.
Their race is already drawing national attention, though it was hard to tell from this event, which was more potluck than pep rally. Crawford, who grew up about an hour away in Chippewa Falls, talked to the crowd about her childhood and her background as a prosecutor. She took the kind of questions that people might have asked in a different era, when judicial races were sleepy affairs.
“How will you balance being (an) independent judge and an elected official?” one man asked.
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