After the presidential election, Wisconsin: Elon Musk throws his influence and financial weight in the balance to have the conservative candidate Brad Schimel elected this Tuesday, April 1, at the Supreme Court of this State in the Great Lakes region. “People do not realize how important this election is,” the richest man on the planet said this Sunday evening during a meeting in Green Bay, by Lake Michigan.
Arrived on stage with a hats in the shape of a cheese, symbol of the local American football team, Elon Musk assured before an audience acquired by his cause that this ballot will ultimately result in the control of the congress, “which then guides the future of Western civilization”.
Brad Schimel is facing Susan Crawford, supported by the Democrats on Tuesday, for a headquarters at the highest judicial body of the Wisconsin, a pivotal state during the last presidential election and the Supreme Court of which can be brought to arbitrate a future local electoral redistribution for the elections in the Congress.
The boss of Tesla and SpaceX has been released the big game for several weeks to have this judge elect and thus tip the courtyard on the conservative side. Brad Schimel will “restore common sense, not idiots, in our elections and in our legal field,” said Logan Joachim, a 23 -year -old industrial drawing technician who came to see Elon Musk in Green Bay.
“He tries to buy our Supreme Court”
Normally, such a ballot would not have a resonance beyond the borders of Wisconsin. But the involvement of Elon Musk gave a national scope to the election of Tuesday. What leave certain dubious and even angry inhabitants. Elon Musk “uses his money to get what he wants, that is to say more money,” said Linda Suskey, at the entrance to a supermarket in Elkhorn, a small town in southern Wisconsin. “He has too much power now. And I think he sees ordinary people like his prolos, his workers,” adds this former primary school principal of 70 years.
Since he joined Donald Trump in the presidential campaign last year, and he devoted 277 million dollars in his personal fortune to support the republican billionaire and his party, Elon Musk has only made importance on the American political scene. On the return from Donald Trump to the White House, he was rewarded by being appointed to the head of a commission with government efficiency (DOGE), responsible for slashing in public spending. In a few weeks, he has already undertaken to dismiss thousands of civil servants and dismantle several federal agencies.
In an Elkhorn antiquity store, a hundred democrat sympathizers turned on Sunday morning to see Susan Crawford and support him. The 60 -year -old judge explained to them that her opponent, in reality, is Elon Musk. “He spent more than $ 25 million to try to help but sit at the Supreme Wisconsin Court,” she said.
In the audience, Rob Patterson brandished a sign with the image of the multimillionaire, where we can read: “Hey holeuc – our courtyard is not for sale”. “He tries to buy our Supreme Court – he already has the president,” said this 65 -year -old retiree, who denounces a “blatant corruption”. For this former electric engineer, Elon Musk attacks the federal state “as an elephant in a porcelain store”.
Legal proceedings against him in the Wisconsin
To win the election this Tuesday, Elon Musk resumes his victorious scheme of the 2024 presidential election. In addition to the millions paid to the campaign of Brad Schimel, Elon Musk thus handed over to Green Bay two checks of a million dollars to voters of Wisconsin. Last year, he organized a lottery consisting in offering a million dollars every day to an voter registered in one of the seven decisive states for victory and which had signed a conservative petition.
A program deemed illegal by the Democrats. For the Susan Crawford campaign team, Elon Musk tries to “buy a seat at the Supreme Court of Wisconsin in order to obtain a favorable decision in the proceedings initiated by his company against the State”.
Tesla, the manufacturer of electric vehicles held by Elon Musk, challenges the Wisconsin’s decision in court not to give it an exception to the rule according to which car manufacturers do not have the right to also hold concession stores. And the case may well end up to the Supreme Court of this State.