Summary
Judge Susan Crawford won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, defeating conservative Brad Schimel despite his backing from Elon Musk and former President Trump.
Her victory preserves the court’s 4-3 liberal majority.
The race, expected to be the most expensive state supreme court election ever, saw spending top $100 million.
Issues before the court include abortion rights, labor laws, and potential redistricting that could affect GOP control of the U.S. House. Crawford, backed by Democrats and reproductive rights groups, will begin her 10-year term on August 1.
That’s not the cost of running the election, that’s the parties spending on the election, correct? So those funds were never going to go into infrastructure. I definitely agree we overspend on politics for politics sake, but please don’t conflate political party funds with government funds.
Think the point is that so much money shouldn’t be available to spend on politics like this. This was more money than the 2000 presidential campaign by either side (and even then people were talking about how campaign finance was broken).
I don’t disagree there’s too much money in politics, but let’s compare apples-to-apples. With inflation, $100M in 2025 would be ~$54M in 2000.
We’re also talking about a state election not nationwide. This should be an apples to oranges thing in terms of spending.
Sure, but your previous comment said:
But that’s not true if they’re both 2000/2025 dollars. So at least now the dollars are apples-to-apples.