Good morning.

Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:15 and sunset is 8:34, for 15 hours, 18 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 98.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Commission meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1981, the first of the Indiana Jones film franchise, Raiders of the Lost Ark, is released in theaters.
It’s been a few bad weeks for Elon Musk (but then, he’s lived more than a few years of bad conduct). Musk is now a defendant in Wisconsin over his payment scheme during the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court election:
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is suing billionaire Elon Musk over allegations that he violated multiple state laws, including the election bribery statute, when he offered voters a potential $1 million award for signing a petition as part of his effort to sway the result of Wisconsin’s April Supreme Court election.
Represented by Wisconsin’s Law Forward, Democracy Defenders Fund and New York-based law firm Hecker Fink, the lawsuit accuses the world’s richest man of implementing “a brazen scheme to bribe Wisconsin citizens to vote.”
Musk and his political action committee, America PAC, played a major role in this spring’s election becoming the most expensive judicial campaign in American history. Musk’s involvement in the race, which came as he was leading President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting initiatives and firing thousands of federal employees through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), was widely seen as causing a backlash and helping Dane County Judge Susan Crawford defeat Musk-backed Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel.
Musk and his PAC spent more than $20 million on the race.
Prior to the election, America PAC offered voters $100 if they signed a petition “in opposition to activist judges,” and another $100 if they referred another voter to sign the petition. Later, at a pre-election rally in Green Bay, Musk handed out two $1 million checks to voters, which had been advertised as awards “in appreciation for you taking the time to vote.”
The lawsuit, filed in Dane County court, notes it is against the law to offer anyone more than $1 to induce them to go to the polls, vote or vote for a particular candidate.
See Henry Redman, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign sues over Musk election payments, Wisconsin Examiner, June 11, 2025.
See also Wisconsin Democrat Campaign v. Musk, No. _________ (Wis. Cir. Ct. Dane Cnty. Jun. 10, 2025) (Complaint):
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