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Election Interference -- Digby
https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/28/election-interference/
Elon’s writing checks again:
He’s since changed his strategy now that he knows it’s illegal. He’ll be giving away the millions as part of a “sweepstakes” for those who sign a petition as he did in Pennsylvania last November.
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Elon Musk said he’ll campaign in Wisconsin on Sunday, capping his unprecedented investment in the state’s supreme court race. It started with ad buys from his Building America’s Future PAC, continued with direct mail to Republicans from his America PAC, and accelerated with cash offers to voters who signed a petition to reject “activist judges who impose their own views” on citizens.
“I will also personally hand over two checks for a million dollars each in appreciation for you taking the time to vote,” Musk wrote on X, previewing his Sunday night appearance. It would be open, he said, to Wisconsinites who prove that they’ve voted in the race between Democratic Party-backed candidate Susan Crawford and GOP-backed Brad Schimel. Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, said that by offering $100 to voters who signed America PAC’s petition, and awarding $1 million prizes to a random supporters, Musk was “committ[ing] a blatant felony.”
He’s since changed his strategy now that he knows it’s illegal. He’ll be giving away the millions as part of a “sweepstakes” for those who sign a petition as he did in Pennsylvania last November.
. . .