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Eric Toney Slams Josh Kaul For Listing ZERO Law Enforcement Endorsements

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Republican Attorney General candidate Eric Toney called Democratic AG Josh Kaul the “most partisan attorney general we have ever seen,” and slammed Kaul’s complete lack of law enforcement endorsements, mismanagement of the state crime lab, and refusal to follow the rule of law when it doesn’t fit his political agenda.

Toney noted that he has bipartisan support from police chiefs, sheriffs, and DAs. He has more than 100 law enforcement endorsements. Kaul has listed ZERO law enforcement endorsements, a fact the other media refuse to report.

Toney said Kaul’s zero listed law enforcement endorsements are the equivalent of Clint Eastwood’s empty chair.

Kaul “turned his back on our law enforcement when they needed him more than ever,” said Toney. “He has no support from law enforcement.”

Toney spoke at the Conservative Political Education Conference in Wausau on Sept. 17, 2022. It was sponsored by Get Involved Wisconsin, Inc.


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He slammed Kaul for taking in and testing fewer items at the state crime lab than former Republican AG Brad Schimel and “taking longer to do it.”

Kaul, Toney said, has “never personally prosecuted a case in Wisconsin.”

Toney described recently sitting in the office of a Democratic sheriff, who told him that in the four years Kaul has been Attorney General, they have met zero times. He walked out of the office with the sheriff’s endorsement.

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As fentanyl kills throughout the state and violence skyrockets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin has an “absent attorney general,” Toney said.

Instead, he said, Kaul has politicized his office, refusing to enforce the rule of law when it doesn’t fit his partisan agenda, Toney said.

“What matters is equal justice under the law,” Toney said. “We expect our attorney general and our elected leaders to follow the rule of law and follow the Wisconsin and US Constitutions.”

As a District Attorney, Toney said, he has “a demonstrated record of enforcing the rule of law,” even sometimes being attacked from people in his own Republican Party.

That’s not Kaul’s record, he said.

As Kenosha burned, Kaul “did nothing,” he said. “He turned his back on our cops. Our top cop wasn’t there for our law enforcement. It’s personal to me. We need to make sure our law enforcement has an attorney general who stands with them. It’s time we have an attorney general who stands with our law enforcement in Wisconsin.”

Kaul “filed a lawsuit trying to challenge the abortion law. It was a frivolous lawsuit and he was wrong on law. He effectively admitted it when he just dropped Republican lawmakers and added district attorneys,” said Toney.

Said Toney: “I will not back down on enforcing rule of law.” Kaul, he said, “enforces the rule of law when it agrees with his partisan political beliefs.”

Jessica McBridehttps://www.wisconsinrightnow.com
Jessica's opinions on this website and all WRN and personal social media pages, including Facebook and X, represent her own opinions and not those of the institution where she works. Jessica McBride, a Wisconsin Right Now contributor, is a national award-winning journalist and journalism educator with more than 25 years in journalism. Jessica McBride’s journalism career started at the Waukesha Freeman newspaper in 1993, covering City Hall. She was an investigative, crime, and general assignment reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a decade. Since 2004, she has taught journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her work has appeared in many news outlets, including Heavy.com (where she is a contributor reaching millions of readers per month), Patch.com, WTMJ, WISN, WUWM, Wispolitics.com, OnMilwaukee.com, Milwaukee Magazine, Nightline, El Conquistador Latino Newspaper, Japanese and German television, Channel 58, Reader’s Digest, Twist (magazine), Wisconsin Public Radio, BBC, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, and others. 
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