A Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate made a stop in Manitowoc to campaign.
Waukesha County Judge and former Attorney General Brad Schimel was at the Manitowoc County Republican Party headquarters on Saturday (March 8th) to explain to voters why he’s running and to answer a couple of their questions.
After talking about not wanting to run at first because he wanted to be at home more, he said he saw what happened in the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race, calling it “horrifying”.
He then took a shot at the newest Justice, Judge Janet Protasiewicz, saying she’s prejudged in cases before her election.
“They haven’t heard the arguments of the lawyers, they haven’t read the briefs, and they haven’t researched the law yet,” he claimed. “But they say I feel like the law should say this, so that’s what I’m going to do. That’s unbelievable!”
Schimel also spoke about the election after a presidential election which can be pretty boring because candidates running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court can’t say what they believe because they have to remain impartial.
He says that after Wisconsin’s district maps were overturned, the liberal majority kept promises they kept during Protasiewicz’s campaign.
He also said his one goal has been serving the people of Wisconsin, while his opponent, Dane County Judge Susan Crawford, has been suing the people of Wisconsin.
“She was in a law firm in Madison where, there the go to law firm where liberals go to sue the state of the Wisconsin over laws they don’t like,” he said. “So, she represented Planned Parenthood, the Madison Teachers Association, League of Women Voters, organizations like that.”
He also claimed that she’s never been a prosecutor and that every attack ad run against him has been a lie from the start.
Following his address to an audience at the Manitowoc County GOP headquarters in Manitowoc, we asked him with his role as attorney general, which he ran as a Republican, if he could be an impartial judge.
He said he’s been getting bipartisan support from sheriff’s deputies across the state.
He’s also talked about his time as a Waukesha County Circuit judge.
Schimel told SeehaferNews.com, “I’ve been my whole career used to not making the law but enforcing it. And now as a judge for six years, I’m used to applying the law the way they wrote it.”
Schimel and Crawford will be debating on Wednesday in Milwaukee at 7:00 p.m.
Crawford spoke for the Manitowoc County Democrats during a dinner they had earlier this month.
