Opinion by Jennifer Rubin: If a progressive wins the seat, the court will likely defend abortion rights in a state where a significant majority of voters are pro-choice.
She has been outraising her opponents in direct contributions with nearly $2 million since the race began. However, an outside right-wing group, Fair Courts America, has spentfor Kelly. Right-wing Illinois donor Richard Uihlein alone spent $1.5 million through Fair Courts America. Meanwhile, a Better Wisconsin Together PAC has raised more than $1 million for Democrats and spent more than $800,000 through Feb. 6. By one estimate, more thanfor the gusher of dark money.
The system bothers Mitchell. He tells me, “I didn’t get all that money, so I’m out doing the hard work of meeting people.” The big money, he says, “makes a judicial race a political race where judges are running [for] the base.” The public loses confidence in the system when “‘progressive’ is synonymous with ‘Democrat’ and ‘conservative’ is synonymous with ‘Republican,’” he argues.
The issue is more than theoretical. Kelly “has been paid nearly $120,000 by the state Republican Party and the Republican National Committee over the past two years for his work on election issues,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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