Can Elon Musk Buy A Wisconsin Supreme Court Race?
Just how much influence can that skipping dipshit of outer space Elon Musk buy? He got a whole president for $277 million, but will an extra $11 million get him a Wisconsin supreme court seat too? We shall see. Thanks, Citizens United!
Just two years ago, the Wisconsin supreme court flipped 4-3 to progressive, finally, after 15 stank, crusty years of conservative rule. At the time it was the most expensive supreme court race ever, at $51.06 million. Before that, the state was the most gerrydiddled in the country, labor bargaining rights were getting chewed up by a rabid badger, and voting rights were getting held face-down in a dell and hit in the back of the head with a rusty shovel. But all that changed, and sanity began to bloom again like a meadow of violets.
And, but, now progressive Wisconsin Justice Ann Walsh Bradley is retiring, and there’s an election for her replacement on April 1 that will either keep the court majority-progressive with Democrat-backed Susan Crawford, or flip it back with Brad Schimel, a guy who went to Trump’s inauguration with (metaphorical) kneepads on, and has lamented that the Wisconsin supreme court “screwed” Trump over when it did not let him steal the 2020 election, had no problem with him pardoning January 6 rioters, and promised canvassers that he would serve as Donald Trump’s “support network.”
Spending on this race has already broken the previous record and is over $58 million, and Musk, through his PACS Building America’s Future and America PAC, has dumped $11 million into the race to back Schimel and attack Crawford, flooding the zone so hard that his PAC even spent thousands on an ad with a picture of the wrong Susan Crawford. BIG BALLS, YER FIRED!
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