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Wednesday in Whitewater will be snowy with a high of 26. Sunrise is 6:55 and sunset is 5:23, for 12 hours, 27 minutes of daytime. The moon is full with 99.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1809, Abraham Lincoln is born.
Susan Crawford leads Brad Schimel in reported campaign fundraising, but both candidates are receiving millions:
Liberal candidate Susan Crawford continues to out-raise her conservative opponent Brad Schimel in a race that will decide control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
With roughly 50 days to go until the April 1 election, the race is already on track to smash previous fundraising records for a Wisconsin judicial election.
Crawford, a Dane County judge, has brought in about $7.7 million since announcing her campaign last year, according to the most-recent reports filed by her campaign committee this week.
Meanwhile, Schimel’s campaign has reported about $5 million in donations.
Reports due this week cover donations through early February. Those disclosures were filed by campaign committees and do not reflect outside spending on the race, such as by groups who pay for their own issue-based ads.
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See Sarah Lehr, Crawford out-raising Schimel ahead of April’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race (‘Both candidates have received large transfers of cash from state political parties’), Wisconsin Public Radio, February 11, 2025.
Detailed reporting on donors and donation amounts to the candidates is available at the Journal Sentinel. Note that while both major parties can transfer money to their preferred candidates, the candidates themselves cannot solicit more than twenty-thousand per donor. Candidate Schimel, predictably, didn’t seem to care about that limitation:
State campaign finance laws restrict donations to Supreme Court candidates to $20,000. But under a decade-old change by the Republican-controlled Legislature, political parties are allowed to receive unlimited donations, money they can then forward to their preferred candidates.
At a Calumet County Republican Party event in July, Schimel was caught on tape urging those who could afford to give more than $20,000 to donate to the party.
“Then, if you want to give a lot more, you can give that to either of the state parties, and they can transfer it,” he said. “They can transfer that to candidates. You can’t earmark it and say, ‘I’m giving you this money but you have to give it.’ But they’re going to those donors who are going to wait till after November 5 (2024) to make sure that I’m the last thing that they give the money to. But that money is going to come.”
See Daniel Bice, George Soros and Wisconsin GOP billionaires dump big donations in Supreme Court race, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 11, 2025.
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