“I’m not a member of the Democratic Party,” former Democratic Legislator Chris Taylor suddenly said during the only state Supreme Court debate on April 2.
However, on March 5, she was talking a completely different tune to Isthmus, which wrote:
Asked by a reporter at a recent event for a “yes” or “no” answer to the question, “Are you a Democrat?” Chris Taylor replied without hesitation: “Yes!”
Either Taylor, who was widely considered the most liberal legislator in Madison when she served in the Legislature, is lying, or she left the Democratic Party in the last few weeks or days, which seems like a strange thing to do for someone in the midst of a campaign. She has been endorsed by Democrat President Barack Obama, was originally appointed to the bench by Democrat Tony Evers, and she adopts left-wing positions.
Is she trying to fool voters? The race is technically non-partisan.
Furthermore, Taylor has received more than $860,000 from the state Democratic Party for her campaign.
“I do have to add one thing: My opponent filled out the FCC paperwork indicating that she still is a Democrat to this day. I filled it out saying I am an independent,” Judge Maria Lazar said during the debate. She is generally supported by conservatives.
The election is on April 7.
At that point in the debate, Taylor smirked:
The Capital Times reviewed that FCC paperwork and found: “Taylor was listed as a Democrat on a number of National Association of Broadcasters agreements, which are contracts between campaigns and TV and radio stations to air political ads that are publicly listed by the Federal Communications Commission.”
The Cap Times added, “On six of those contracts, which were all dated Feb. 9 except for one from Feb. 13, the form stated Taylor was a Democrat. On the remaining 29 forms that were filed afterward, however, Taylor was labeled as a nonpartisan candidate.”
Her campaign is now claiming she is “an independent,” and told the Cap Times that the labeling “was an error and that filings are completed by a media company the campaign contracts with to sell their ads to broadcasters.”
