WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT: Kelly accuses Protasiewicz of slandering him in campaign ads
Conservative Supreme Court candidate Daniel Kelly accused liberal rival Janet Protasiewicz of slandering him in her campaign ads, calling her accusations preposterous and stupid.
He also called the Milwaukee County judge unqualified to serve on the state’s highest court.
Kelly opened his appearance Tuesday in Milwaukee with an extended riff on Protasiewicz, the sentences she handed down while serving on the circuit court bench and an ad knocking him for representing accused child molesters.
In the Protasiewicz spot, the narrator says Kelly as an attorney defended child sex predators who posed as ministers to prey on vulnerable young girls by luring them to locations they believed to be safe. The narrator adds, “And Dan Kelly defended those monsters. Do you want someone like that on the Supreme Court?”
Kelly said the ad falsely suggested he represented the defendants through trial. Online court records show Kelly became an attorney in the four cases cited in the ad between early February 1998 and early March of that year. He withdrew as an attorney on Aug. 26, 1998, and the case went to trial that December.
He claimed the ad was slanderous because it suggested he liked the kind of crime his clients were accused of committing, adding it was “a truly stupid thing to say.”
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