civics: influence and $pending on the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
Crawford is benefiting from hefty donations from Democratic philanthropist (billionaire) George Soros; Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker; Gloria Page, the mother of Google co-founder Larry Page; and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Schimel pointed to those donations to say big spending by outside forces is “happening on both sides.”
The only outside group spending large amounts of money on Crawford’s behalf is the liberal A Better Wisconsin Together, which says it has spent $1 million on digital and television ads. In the 2023 state supreme court race, the group spent more than $6 million on behalf of the liberal candidate who won and flipped control of the court after 15 years with conservatives in the majority.
How do you write a story about Musk spending money to support Schimel without mentioning the $1 million and $500K donations respectively from George Soros and JB Pritzker to the Wisconsin Democratic Party which then made a $2 million donation to Crawford?
