Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Washington Post

MADISON, Wis. — A liberal candidate for Wisconsin’s Supreme Court glided to victory Tuesday, overcoming a flood of political cash from tech billionaire Elon Musk in a race seen as a referendum on him and President Donald Trump.

Musk and groups affiliated with him invested more than $20 million in the race. The top Trump adviser and leader of Tesla and SpaceX handed out cash prizes to generate interest in the race. At a rally Sunday in Green Bay, Wisconsin, he cast the election as one that could chart the course of Western civilization because of what it could mean for Trump’s agenda.

But Musk’s spending and hyperbolic framing weren’t enough to win the most expensive court race in U.S. history. The contest cost more than $100 million, nearly doubling the past record and putting it in line with top Senate races.

Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge and former chief counsel to a Democratic governor, won the open seat, ensuring liberals will keep their 4-3 majority. She defeated Brad Schimel, a Waukesha County judge and former Republican attorney general who embraced Trump.

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All that money for nothing Elon

[Jack Valentino]

1. YES!!!!!!! EAT THIS, Elon Muskrat!

All your money can't buy everything!

[nycbos]

2. Take the pain out of the Yankees bullpen coming ungluded in the 8th

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. A twofer!

(1) Democracy votes to control the WSC.
(2) Elon is toast. If not. he's playing the election card with Trump.

[NoMoreRepugs]

4. E-Loon - the party is coming to an end DickWad.

[Blues Heron]

5. HA! Skum is going down! All you fascist skum are bound to lose!

[creon]

6. Excellent.

I am glad to see it

Trump and Musk are, both, gaga.

[MichMan]

7. Who invested the other $80 million?

Musk and groups affiliated with him invested more than $20 million in the race.

The contest cost more than $100 million, nearly doubling the past record and putting it in line with top Senate races.

[AllyCat]

10. Well, I contributed $50. I'm guessing a lot of other folks

Did too.

But the money came from out-of-state (and some in-state) billionaires. A quick DuckDuckGo search found the answer in seconds.

Most of the help went to Schimel. Crawford raised the most money.

You good with that?

[MichMan]

11. Sure, people are free to donate money to anything they like.

As a retiree, I make my meager donations to dog rescue organizations instead of political campaigns.

You good with that?

[AllyCat]

17. Of course that's awesome.

But why are you questioning the money here? Sure, it’s insane a state Supreme Court race costs this much. But your post implied there was money missing and FElon only spent $20m.

I’d rather all that money went to animal shelters, kids at school, hungry people, and seniors on fixed incomes because we have public financing of campaigns.

As everyone here knows, it doesn’t. But I’m not questioning the other $80M when a broligarch contributed a whole fifth on his own.

[Bengus81]

28. Articles say Musk himself spent $20M. So they raised alot more than $20M

[dweller]

8. I bet she will reach 1 million votes

At 948k now at 75% of vote in …
At 960k at 76% in
Oh yeh , 1,031,648 at 11pm


✌🏻

[Skittles]

12. OUTSTANDING

[MichMan]

42. They both did.........

[Skittles]

9. VERY proud of Wisconsin

WELL DONE!

[SunSeeker]

13. The cheese has spoken.

[Buddyzbuddy]

16. Great pic!

[ShazzieB]

20. OMG. that is TOO perfect!

[Mike 03]

23. Love it!!

[alterfurz]

39. caption: Hard Cheese for Sissy SpaceX

[rpannier]

14. Brad can go back to running his bakery

If you watched Hogan's Heroes episodes you might get my obscure reference

[AntiFascist]

15. democracy in action!

and the showing was so strong that Musk couldn't hack the vote.

[Justice matters.]

18. Good. All indicators show massive defeats for magacons in every state.

And it's not really "his" money, it's the taxpayers money.

[orangecrush]

19. Fuck you, Elmo!

[ShazzieB]

21. Take THAT, Eloon!

I already posted these in another thread, but I think they belong here, too! 😄

[Paladin]

22. Dear Lord. Some truly good political news.

I barely know how to react to such things, after a few non-stop weeks of the trump regime. Thank you, Wisconsin.

Recharge your batteries, everybody. There's lots of work to be done...

[defacto7]

24. Great news. In other news ...

Musk claws back cash from the accounts of million dollar recipients.

(sarc)

[Bengus81]

27. I'm guessing in that rigged up dog and pony show Musk really gave them $100K tops

But they got to be near their favorite NAZI for awhile.

[travelingthrulife]

32. Doubt it. The recipients were GOP operatives.

[Bengus81]

25. HELL YES!!!! Way to go Democrats!!

Spend MORE money Eloon. Meanwhile Tesla is TANKING again this morning.

[PedroXimenez]

26. also a blow to Western Civilization

according to Elon.

[Bengus81]

29. When do FOX and Trump start whining about "dark money" from Democrats

Coming in 5...4...3...

After all, Pres Musk was trying to buy the election right out there in the light.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Musk has used the George Soros excuse before.

So you know it's coming.

[Bengus81]

41. What the hell are those clowns going to do when he dies? He's pretty damn old

I've been hearing about Soro's from those idiots for what 25 years? Of course it's nothing but diversion and laughable.

[DiverDave]

30. Maybe, maybe, maybe...

We get the fence sitters to FINALLY open thier eyes.
A guy can dream.
Now, if only the Democratic party can get thier heads outta thier asses and FIGHT.

[Prof. P.E. Name]

31. Hook, line and sinker: Muskie

We reeled him in. Welcome to Wisconsin, Bub.

The only way we Wisconsinites like our Musk is hooked at the end of a fish line, then cast iron pan fried over an open flame.

Nothin' better than our state fish, the Muskellunge, in the morning!

[travelingthrulife]

33. Good work. Keep it up!

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

34. The circus around giving away $2 million dollars backfired big time

One of those million conveniently went to the president of WI YOung Republican Club. Gee what a coincidence!

Loon thought he was attracting voters for his candidate, but in reality it was like waving a red flag in front of angry bull who detests everything he and Trump stand for.

[IronLionZion]

35. Good to know that million dollar cash prizes didn't help

I would accept a million dollar check from Elon but still vote liberal.

[Linda ladeewolf]

36. Elons ploy was successful!

It called attention to this election, just not the way he hoped it would. 😈

[generalbetrayus]

37. Borowitz satire, but it wouldn't surprise me if it becomes closer to the truth.

https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/furious-elon-musk-demands-refund?r=4axf9h&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—After being handed a bruising defeat in the state’s Supreme Court election on Tuesday, Elon Musk angrily demanded that Wisconsin pay him back “in full” for the money he poured into the contest.

“I want $20 million wired into my account by end of business Wednesday,” the furious South African declared. “And I want it all in cash, none of that worthless crypto shit.”

“Until I am refunded, every voter I bribed is my employee,” he continued. “As such, I forbid you to work remotely and demand that you report to Tesla headquarters at once.”

In a final demand, Musk said he expected to be reimbursed $16.95 for the cost of his cheesehead.

[tonekat]

38. May this be a Trend! N/T