cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/35130859

Attorney General Josh Kaul accused the world's richest person and top Trump adviser of "a blatant attempt to violate" Wisconsin's election bribery law.

Case file: https://www.wisdoj.gov/PressReleases/kaul-v-musk-summons-complaint.pdf

One of the first attack ads launched by a Elon Musk-backed group in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race has landed with a resounding thud.

That's because the ad that Building America's Future is currently running on social media doesn't feature Susan M. Crawford, the liberal Dane County judge running for the high court against conservative Brad Schimel.

Rather, the digital ad has a large photo of Susan P. Crawford, a law school professor at Harvard University. It appears Building America's Future lifted her picture from her Wikipedia profile. A digital ad from the Elon Musk-backed group Building America's Future depicts the wrong Susan Crawford — the photo is of Harvard professor Susan P. Crawford, not Susan M. Crawford, the Dane County judge running for Wisconsin Supreme Court.

"Susan Crawford: Wrong for Wisconsin," the ad says.

Ok, but which Crawford?

Perhaps, more accurately, it should read, "Wrong Susan Crawford for Wisconsin."

The two women look alike to some degree

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/23524449

Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods. 

Madison-area U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Black Earth), state Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Eau Claire) and state Reps. Jodi Emerson (D-Eau Claire) and Christian Phelps (D-Eau Claire) were in attendance. 

U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden, state Reps. Rob Sommerfeld (R-Bloomer), Treig Pronschinske (R-Mondovi) and Clint Moses (R-Mondovi) and state Sens. Jesse James (R-Thorp) and Rob Stafsholt (R-New Richmond) were all invited but did not attend or send a staff member.

Fuck that requirement.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33140391

Not content with spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump and Republican candidates in 2024 and then taking a wrecking ball to the federal government, Elon Musk is now trying to flip the balance of power on the top court in one of the country’s most important swing states.

Building America’s Future, a dark money group backed by Musk, is spending at least $1.6 million in support of Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, a conservative judge in suburban Milwaukee who is running for an open seat in an April election that will decide whether progressives or conservatives control the court. The group began running ads across the state on Thursday.

Farmers need to stop voting against their own interests. You knew when they voted republican that your migrant workers would be deported.