Josh Kaul, you’ve been had.
Elon Musk just rolled you.
While the liberal media are (predictably) all aflutter about Musk’s petition (against activist judges), average folks are rushing to sign it. And liberal Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is now the guy trying to stop average folks from having a chance at a million bucks for signing a petition. There’s nothing illegal about paying people to sign a petition, which just makes this look like more Democratic lawfare and election interference.
🚨 #BREAKING: The Dem AG of Wisconsin says he is taking legal action to BLOCK Elon Musk from giving $1 MILLION checks to two citizens who sign his petition against activist judges
MORE LAWFARE!
The Dems are so terrified Elon is going to activate Wisconsinites to vote that… pic.twitter.com/LHTOfmGylE
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) March 28, 2025
Musk is going ahead with the petition drive town hall, and says he will give two million dollar checks to people who sign his petition against activist judges. To get into the event, which is at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday in Green Bay, you have to sign the petition. Sign up for the event here.
See Musk’s petition here.
Don’t listen to the liberal media. The petition lawsuit Kaul filed HELPS conservative Judge BRAD SCHIMEL. That’s especially true now that a Democrat-led appeals court ruled against Kaul. If the liberal justices on the Supreme Court get the case next – and don’t recuse – it will help Schimel all the more because all four of them have hit the CAMPAIGN trail for Susan Crawford. That will stink to high heaven.
Here’s how else Kaul’s action helps Schimel:
1. We aren’t talking about rape kits anymore. The biggest failure of Schimel’s campaign came the first month, which he spent defending himself on the misleading rape kit attacks instead of defining liberal Judge Susan Crawford (on her terrible sentencing history, liberal ideology, etc). We aren’t talking about Crawford’s misleading narratives on rape kits in the critical final days before the election. We’re talking about Elon Musk, and Josh Kaul’s brazen attempt to interfere in the election by stopping average folks from having the opportunity (and freedom) to join a petition drive.
Susan Crawford has forgotten she’s running against Brad Schimel. She’s running against Elon Musk. But she’s banking on his unpopularity. And while he’s unpopular with the most extreme purple-haired corners of the left, we think most Wisconsinites support cutting waste in government and like Elon Musk. After all, the state just elected Trump. This election has a presidential election feel. With the Democrats in disarray and embracing unpopular positions, we can’t imagine that helps Crawford.
2. Is Kaul conceding that Crawford is an activist judge since he seems to think a petition against activist judges is an election tactic against Crawford…? He’s just been boxed in.
3. Look, Democrats were already at fever pitch. Frothing at the mouth fever pitch. They see this election as a chance to thwart Trump’s agenda by electing a leftist judge who will redraw the congressional maps to get rid of Republicans Derrick Van Orden ad Bryan Steil (and flip control of Congress.) They’re ballistic at Trump (and Musk) and they see this election as their first chance to fight back. Anger is a powerful motivator to vote, and Schimel needs just roughly 60% of Trump’s November voters to come out for him. This helps accomplish that by ginning up Trump’s voters and helping them see that Trump’s agenda is at stake. Thus, the more the liberal media rant and rave about the Musk petition drive, the more it drives up Trump voter turnout and levels that playing field.
All we are talking about is Democrat Josh Kaul going after Elon Musk. This will activate Schimel’s base.
Will it be enough? Time will tell. The conventional wisdom was that Schimel was down a couple points, but the truth is no one really knows how much Musk’s door knockers etc. have closed the gap. For all the liberal media and Democrat blathering about Musk’s money, the fact is that Crawford is still outspending him (through the largesse of gazillionaires like Soros and Pritzker.) But she isn’t wildly outspending him, and that gives him a fighting chance.
It’s interesting how the narrative about Schimel is all about “he’s buying the election! Musk is buying the election!” when he’s still being outspent. Funny how that narrative never gets used against Democrats.
Schimel is a far superior candidate to the last conservative to run for Wisconsin Supreme Court, Dan Kelly. He has name ID, law enforcement cred, he’s likable, and his opponent is easier to define ideologically. Who would you want to have a beer with? Not the steely ideologue Susan Crawford. Unlike Kelly, Schimel is not limiting the ability to get funding (although he’s distanced from the Musk petition drive).
4. Did we mention that folks want a chance to get a million bucks to sign a petition?
Look. Let’s be blunt. Musk’s first tweet was legally problematic. Statutes are clear. But he clarified it. That matters. A lot. And it’s not illegal to give people 100 bucks (or a million) to sign a petition or be the spokesperson thereof.
Republican DA Eric Toney – who will hopefully run for AG again – made that point on X.
Toney said that Kaul’s lawsuit is now “nonsensical.”
The sloppy filing is focused on old facts – a tweet Musk CLARIFIED. So now you have Kaul charging like a racehorse out of the gate to chase a guy who has gone in a different direction. The bull is charging at a red cape that no longer exists.
Which just looks silly.
Now you have Kaul trying to stop a guy from holding a rally about a PETITION. More importantly, he is trying to stop average Wisconsinites from having the right to go to a rally about a petition almost everyone agrees with (no one wants activist judges.)
That seems like election interference – by Democrat Kaul.
Beautifully, and bizarrely, the Kaul lawsuit actually was initially sent to SUSAN CRAWFORD’s courtroom in liberal Dane County. Sure, she recused, but the optics are bad.
The activist AG is suing the world’s richest man to prevent a petition that seeks to block activist judges to help elect an activist judge.
Do voters get that? They’re more likely to by Tuesday because all we are talking about is Elon Musk. And if that doesn’t get those mythical Trump voters off their sofas or out to the polls, what will? Well, a Trump visit would. But Musk, vilified though he is by corporate media, is a free speech, government waste cutting hero on the right.
Josh Kaul, you just got played, and you don’t seem to realize it.
