The ad accused Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford of giving a “lovers' sentence” to pedophiles as a judge for Dane County Circuit Court in 2022.
The ad is titled “This Way” Paid Crawford's conservative rival and former Wisconsin attorney general in Brad Schemmel's campaign, Crawford is a soft crime judge who lightly declared a man convicted of cruel and repeated sexual abuse. Frame as. Breitbart News gained access to the ads before it was published.
The ad refers to the case of a convicted pedophile Curtis O'Brien, 30. Abuse According to court documents, the girl was aged five and six between 2012 and 2014. Court records show Crawford eventually sentenced the 6-foot-1, 270-pound O'Brien to four years in prison with six-year supervision. O'Brien only served nearly two years after the verdict due to time, Wisconsin reports now detail.
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“This street is the same as the rest of Wisconsin streets. But the new neighbor is a pedophile and a little girl who was released in prison for just two years thanks to the sentencing of Judge Susan Crawford's lover. pedophiles who repeatedly raped him. “Right now, pedophiles are blocked from school, and with Susan Crawford on the bench, your street could be next.”
According to current Wisconsin reports, Crawford repeatedly allowed O'Brien to move around the state with $500 signing bonds, later approved the move from Black Earth to Oshkosh and then to Madison. O'Brien had a previous criminal history before a child sexual abuse case, court records show.
O'Brien's listed address for Wisconsin sex offender registration is confirm He currently lives near several elementary schools in Madison, Wisconsin. A search on Google Maps revealed that he lives 1.3 miles from Kennedy Elementary School, 0.8 miles from Elbehem Elementary School, and 3.8 miles from Winnequarter Elementary School. State law only limit Sex offenders from living in 1,500-foot school facilities, child care facilities, parks, places of worship and youth centers.
“Susan Crawford spent his career prioritizing dangerous criminal sentiment over safety in our community,” Jacob Fisher, a spokesman for the Simel campaign, told Breitbart News. Ta. “There is a clear reason law enforcement supports this race by law enforcement: the only candidate with a proven track record in prosecuting violent criminals, defending the most vulnerable people and doing justice is It's Judge Brad Simel.”
Statewide TV ads are broadcast in all state markets.
“Because it's 50 days before Election Day, the conservative campaign is already spending more on television ads than previous conservative candidates in Supreme Court history,” he said. A source told Breitbart News.
Wisconsin Supreme Court competition is expected to become one of the highest stakeholders in 2025, with liberal justice Anne Walsh Bradley retiring, and liberal court balances again in the hands of the balance of power You can put it in. The April 1 election followed the 2023 election of Wisconsin Supreme Court's liberal justice Janet Protasiewicz, which reversed the balance of the courts to a 4-3 advantage on the main battlefield.
$56 million in the 2023 election spending broke national spending records for judicial contests, but this year's race I'm hoping for exceed that amount.
Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on x @thekat_hamilton.
