Susan M. Crawford

His candidate lost comfortably.

The winner, Susan Crawford, told supporters the state's courts are not for sale.

Now, but money buys reach, not loyalty.

But I don't necessarily agree with that.

The fundraising and ad spending game is, for the first time I can remember, tilted overwhelmingly toward the Republican.

There have been races, most notably in the state Supreme Court race that pitted Brad Schimel against Susan Crawford.

Remember the one where Elon Musk got involved, and he was spending gobs of money on Schimel's behalf? There was still not this cash or spending advantage coming in on behalf of conservatives or the Republicans.

This time there is.

Trump in 2024 outspent Kamala Harris.

The only time where we didn't outspend them and we won was in 2025 with Susan Crawford.

But we were competitive against Elon Musk.

You know what I mean? Like, this is just we're just getting blown out.

Next week, we're going to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, for Justice on Wheels.

Instead of people having to come to Madison for a court hearing, we're taking the court up to Chippewa Falls, where Justice Susan Crawford is, uh, where she grew up.

Well, uh, congratulations on getting this launched.

It'll be interesting to see, uh, if it develops into something that is a little more of a, a nationwide sort of base level, this is how you do it, but being tested here in Wisconsin, a statewide restraining order portal that is, uh, federally funded.

I think the closest example we could possibly come up with would be some of the Supreme Court elections, where those candidates typically don't raise a lot of money.

And so when Janet Protasewicz or Susan Crawford got large transfers through the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, they did fuel three quarters or more of their campaign.

That's a completely different animal.

Those are independent elections.

how'd that work in the last Wisconsin Supreme Court race? Not that well.

You mean Crawford versus, not Elon Musk, but Schimel?

Yeah.

Any of those races.

I don't know if it was, like, drowned out, though.

Like, I mean, Susan Crawford had a lot of money, too.

So I don't know.

Taylor.