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Elon Musk in Green Bay: Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Could Determine Control of U.S. House

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk took a stage in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sunday, and warned Wisconsin voters that he believes the control of the U.S. House – and thus, Trump’s and his reforms – are on the line in Tuesday’s state Supreme Court race.

“It’s a vote for which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives,” said Musk. “Whoever controls the House controls the country, which steers the course of Western civilization.”

Musk said the Wisconsin Supreme Court race will “affect the entire destiny of humanity.”

In a nutshell, if leftist Judge Susan Crawford wins, Musk believes the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court will try to redraw congressional district boundaries to get rid of Republican Wisconsin Congressmen Derrick Van Orden and Bryan Steil. This has been a concern for months as Crawford appeared on a donor call about overturning the congressional maps, and Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, and a Democrat, outright said that electing Crawford could lead to better congressional maps for Democrats.

The election “could deprive Wisconsin of two House seats,” said Musk.

“And then they could try to stop all the government reforms we’re getting done for you the American people,” Musk said, referring to the U.S. House being flipped.

Musk also went into a detailed explanation of DOGE; he said he and the others involved are trying to “restore common sense to government.”

Musk questioned why it was smart to spend “money on transgender comic books in Peru. It shouldn’t be your money that does it.”

Musk also announced a new 48-hour program before the election whereby Wisconsinites can sign up to be block captains of their neighborhood and then they will get $20 for every voter they take a photo with, along with a thumb’s up and picture of conservative Judge Brad Schimel. He said the information about how to sign up will be available on his America Pac website.

The website later posted a form online to sign up.

Schimel, who was not at the rally, is the former Waukesha County DA and Attorney General, who is running against leftist candidate Susan Crawford, who, as a private lawyer tried to overturn voter ID and Act 10. As a Dane County judge, she has been criticized for giving slaps on the wrist to child rapists/molesters and other violent criminals.

Musk spoke analytically and passionately at length, starting the rally in Green Bay by donning a cheesehead, which he then tossed to the audience. He gave out two $1 million checks to petition signers Nicholas Jacobs and Ekaterina Diestler. Those checks, which are legal, were the subject of a flurry of last-minute failed attempts by partisan liberal AG Josh Kaul in the courts, who tried to prevent Musk from handing them out. Musk’s lawers accused Kaul of trying to suppress Musk’s free speech and a series of liberal judges rejected Kaul’s legal action.

Musk concluded by fielding random questions from the audience, about AI, optimism, and other intellectual topics. He joked that he had to “watch my hand gestures” and couldn’t “wave to the crowd.” In short, he was absolutely nothing like the caricature painted of him in the legacy media.

A man who asked Musk a question from the audience apologized to him for the “idiots” he has to deal with while trying to improve the country. Another man asked Musk if his father, a pastor, could say a prayer for him.

“We do love you very much,” the pastor told Musk. “The issue is fairness.”

Musk said he was “perturbed at how aggressive these protests are,” saying that people are calling for the death of President Donald Trump and himself. He said that he has received quite a few death threats, although the number dropped yesterday from 18,000 to 17,000.

He called the reforms being conducted under Trump and DOGE “really profound.”

“The goal is very simple. It’s to restore merit and freedom. That’s what it comes down to. America is the land of freedom and opportunity,” said Musk.

He also said the Biden administration had created every incentive for illegal immigration. “We are trying to stop all of these things,” he said, referring to waste and fraud, and the massive incentives given by the U.S. government to illegal immigrants to come to the U.S. Musk believes the goal of Democrats is to “turn all the swing states blue.”

Musk highlighted the spike in the number of illegal immigrants who are getting U.S. benefits and are getting new social security numbers. He said what is “really going to cause Democrats to lose their minds is that we are going to turn off payments to illegals.”

Musk also highlighted how he sees the Trump era reforms.

“We want to restore individual freedoms, freedom of speech just in general. To get the government off your back and make sure you succeed in the United States as a function of your hard work and your talent and nothing else,” said Musk.

He called these “really noble and important principles,” and he said there is an “insane” and “shocking level of waste and fraud in the federal government.”

According to Musk, it is “shocking how much violence and hatred is coming from the left. They claim to be the party of empathy but they are burning Teslas. They’ve gone psycho.”

“The derangement level on the left is just blowing my mind frankly.”

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He said the legacy media is partly to blame. He said that people comparing him and Trump to Hitler and Stalin need a history lesson. “Do they know what Hitler and Stalin did?”

“It is astounding how much anti-American propaganda is pushed on kids in schools,” said Musk.

Musk explained that his petition is to promote the idea that judges “should be interpreting the law, not making the law. We want judges to be judges.” People needed to sign the petition against activist judges to get into the convention center for the rally and to qualify for the million-dollar checks.

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(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction spent $368,885 to hold a four-day standard setting event in June 2024 at a Wisconsin Dells waterpark, according to a new report.

The event included 88 expert educators who were subject to non-disclosure agreements related to the workshop, according to records obtained by Dairyland Sentinel.

The publication fought for more than a year to obtain records of the meeting through Wisconsin Open Records law and attributes the Monday release of 17 more pages of documents to the involvement of the Institute for Reforming Government.

“The agency did not provide receipts for staff time, food, travel, or lodging,” Dairyland Sentinel wrote of the event at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells. “Taxpayers are left to wonder how much of that $368,885 was spent on resort amenities, alcohol, or water park access for the 88 educators and various staff in attendance.”

There are no recordings of the event, DPI told the outlet, and meeting minutes were not sent as part of the public records response.

DPI was found by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty to have lowered school report card cut points in 2020-21, changed the labels on those in 2023-24 and lowered the cut points again that year as well.

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WisconsinEye Back On the Air With Temporary State Funding; Bill Heard

(The Center Square) – WisconsinEye was back on the air broadcasting legislative hearings at Wisconsin’s capitol Tuesday, starting with a hearing on a bill to send long-term funding assistance to the private nonprofit that broadcasts Wisconsin state government meetings.

WisconsinEye received $50,000 in funding through the Joint Committee on Legislative Organization to go on the air during February.

Assembly Bill 974 would allow the network to receive the interest from a $9.75 million endowment each year, estimated to be between 4-7% or between $390,000 and $682,000. The network would have to continue raising the rest of its budget, which board chair Mark O’Connell said is $950,000 annually.

He spoke during a public hearing in the Assembly Committee on State Affairs on Monday. A companion bill in the Senate is not yet filed.

“We’ll need some kind of bridge,” O’Connell cautioned, saying it will take time for the trust fund granted in the 2024-25 budget to earn interest and get it to the network.

O’Connell also said that he hopes the legislation can be changed to allow for the Wisconsin Investment Board to be aggressive while investing the fund.

O’Connell noted that WisconsinEye raised more than $56,000 through donations on GoFundMe since it went off the air Dec. 15 and that there are seven donors willing to give $25,000 annually and one that will donate $50,000 annually if the legislation passes, which he said would put the network in a “relatively strong position in partnership with the state.”

O’Connell noted that many states fund their own in-house network to broadcast the legislature and committees.

“This legislation will fund only about 1/3 of what we need,” O’Connell said.

The bill has four restrictions, starting with the requirement that appointees of the Assembly Speaker, Senate Majority Leader, Assembly Minority Leader and Senate Minority Leader that are not members of the Legislature be added to the WisEye board of directors.

WisEye will be required to focus coverage on official state government meetings and business, provide free online access to its live broadcasts and digital archives and that WisEye provides an annual financial report to the Legislature and Joint Finance Committee.

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(The Center Square) - A bipartisan Assembly bill that would re-start live stream operations of Wisconsin government from WisconsinEye is expected to receive its first committee discussion during a public hearing at noon Tuesday in the Committee on State Affairs.

The bill proposes granting WisconsinEye funds from $10 million set aside for matching funds in an endowment so that WisconsinEye can resume operations now, something that WisEye President and CEO Jon Henkes told The Center Square in November he was hoping to happen.

WisEye shut down operations and removed its archives from the being available online Dec. 15.

The bill, which is scheduled for both a public hearing and vote in committee Tuesday, would remove the endowment fund restrictions on the funds and instead put the $10 million in a trust that can be used to provide grants for operations costs to live stream Wisconsin government meetings, including committee and full Assembly and Senate meetings at the state capitol.

The bill has four restrictions, starting with the requirement that appointees of the Assembly Speaker, Senate Majority Leader, Assembly Minority Leader and Senate Minority Leader that are not members of the Legislature be added to the WisEye board of directors.

WisEye will be required to focus coverage on official state government meetings and business, provide free online access to its live broadcasts and digital archives and that WisEye provides an annual financial report to the Legislature and Joint Finance Committee.

“Finally, under the bill, if WisconsinEye ceases operations and divests its assets, WisconsinEye must pay back the grants and transfer all of its archives to the state historical society,” the bill reads.

There is not yet a companion bill in the Senate. The bill must pass both the Assembly and Senate and then be signed into law by Gov. Tony Evers.

WisconsinEye has continued to push for private donations to meet the $250,000 first-quarter goal to restart operations with a GoFundMe showing it has raised $56,087 of the $250,000 goal as of Monday morning.

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