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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStrong Democratic Showing in Wisconsin Court Race Sets Up a Frenzied Finish
Tuesdays results suggested that the states Democratic voters are more energized than Republicans. While the number of ballots cast statewide represented 29 percent of the 2020 presidential electorate, the turnout in Dane County was 40 percent of the 2020 total, a striking figure for a judicial election. In Dane County, which includes the liberal state capital of Madison, Joseph R. Biden Jr. took three out of every four votes.
Republicans will also face the financial might of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, which on Wednesday transferred $2.5 million to the Protasiewicz campaign. Justice Kelly did not spend a dollar on television advertising during the primary, but he was aided by $2.8 million in spending from a super PAC funded by the conservative billionaire Richard Uihlein, according to AdImpact, a media tracking firm. Democrats also helped Justice Kelly by spending $2.2 million to attack his conservative opponent, Jennifer Dorow, a circuit court judge in Waukesha County.
Justice Kelly has said he expects Mr. Uihlein's PAC, Fair Courts America, to spend another $20 million on his behalf for the general election. That money will not go as far as the cash transferred directly to the Protasiewicz campaign because candidates can buy television advertising at far lower rates than PACs.
Wisconsins conservatives, who have controlled the court since 2008, fear a rollback not just of their favorable maps but also of a host of Republican-friendly policies that were ushered in while Scott Walker was governor, including changes to the states labor and voting laws.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/wisconsin-supreme-court-race.html
hlthe2b
(102,342 posts)around Kelly? That would clearly be enough to provide a razor-thin finish, right?
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)The Republican dark money machine in Wisconsin will now try to do to Protasiewicz what they did to Mandela Barnes.
republianmushroom
(13,661 posts)Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)The Pac monster always has a name, but its not Frankenstein!
The media, would can point out these Frankensteins have to be as corrupted by that kind of cash as much as the politicians being showered by ad dollars
all legal apparently!
Limits on electors like every other democracy maybe?! see Canada..media and Rich disagree I would think. Screw them. Why do politicians who can change the obvious corruption, do not??
another result of the corruption maybe?