Yeah, it's a political event.
You know, there's got to be a little
bit of speech going on, right?
This is a big day for celebration.
So 366
days ago, we kicked
this thing off and a lot of you here
were with us at night.
We did it at the Waldorf.
The big turnout and a big splash.
We thank you guys all for all of you
being with me through this year.
Now it's time.
It's time to get to work.
You got just under four months to go
to Election Day.
We've got to make this happen
in that year.
I haven't been kicking back.
Haven't a lot of. I am not sitting
back hanging on for my
family, I can tell you that.
Or in this 12 months I have no
campaign is 65 counts.
I've been I've spoken at hundreds
and hundreds of events
and I've shaken hands and talked
with and listened to tens of
thousands of Wisconsin voters
to find out what they think about
all this.
I can tell you what they think about
the Supreme Court right now.
They think it's a mess and we have
to fix it.
I've been campaigning aggressively
for the last 12 months, and I have
good news for you.
I've never seen either side this
motivated or this
united.
I've been more haven't volunteer for
Supreme Court races for close to 30
years now, since way
back when Pat Roberts ran the first
time.
And I've never seen our side getting
get wise Supreme Court matters like
they do now.
When I first started this,
I'll look at it six months to
Election Day, and I couldn't tell
you that was daunting.
It had me a little freaked out.
That was a long time.
But, boy, I wouldn't trade a day of
it now.
And we're four months long.
We've got all this under our belts.
I knew that I had to campaign in
every corner of Wisconsin.
I knew that I had to work hard to
build the team. We need to win
this race.
Grassroots supporters from all
around Wisconsin are energized
and ready to be the army we need
to win on April 1st.
I was not anointed.
You've all heard me say this a
thousand times on the campaign
trail. Nobody anointed me to be the
conservative candidate for the
Wisconsin Supreme Court.
And frankly, I always said if
there's a if there's a stronger
candidate out there, come on,
I'll support you.
Nobody else has come forward.
And we managed now to
avoid a primary nomination.
Papers are circulating.
Nobody else is in this race.
So we're not.
Going to have.
Yeah.
We're not going to have the kind of
divisive, expensive
primary that we've had in past races
that have cost conservatives
the elections.
Now it's us,
us against the Dane County
Liberal who's taking me out.
Folks, this wasn't my plan.
I didn't plan.
If you'd asked me two years ago, was
I going to run for the Wisconsin
Supreme Court last week?
I've got a great gig as a circuit
court judge. Really?
It's a cause I
enjoyed being to I enjoyed being
the attorney general.
But the judge thing, when I
got home for dinner most nights,
my kids never saw that.
I started running for D.A.
when they were one and three when
I started running for D.A.
and they got used to their whole
lives. Dad is not home for
dinner. Dad is gone somewhere
all the time for family events.
I used to go to their their T-ball
games and I was in my suit
and tie.
It was a thousand degrees outside in
July. I'm going to tie because
I'm just stopping in to watch the
game. I have to go back to work
because I'm in trial that week.
That's what they're used to.
Their whole life was a judge
and a circuit court.
I got home for dinner.
They got to see me,
but I had to throw that all the way
because I just like you.
I've watched what happened in the
2023 Supreme Court case
just like you.
I've watched the disaster
that has been the first term
of the Wisconsin Supreme Court under
the leftist majority.
I watched this and I knew
I couldn't sit on the sidelines.
I had to get in and do something.
There are three reasons I got in
this race.
First, this new Supreme Court
majority is beyond radical.
The liberals have broken norms
as candidates, and now
they're breaking norms as justices.
Two I was ashamed
of a race. In 2023,
a candidate openly promised
how they were going to how they were
going to rule on cases.
And for the left, the days of
impartiality are gone.
But she wasn't the first one
to do that.
She's not the first one from this
majority to promise how they're
going to rule on cases.
Let's imagine it's summer.
I know we got a long time.
So summer again.
Let's imagine this summer we
all came out for a.com scam.
And by the way, if you haven't come
out for a dot coms game, you need to
come off for a dot coms game.
That's combination baseball and
three ring circus.
It's a fun time.
Well, let's imagine. Here we are.
We're all in our seats.
We're waiting. The teams are getting
in their dugouts, and now the empire
strikes out to home plate
to take their spot.
And,
yeah, Empire is running to Chicago.
To hog's Jersey.
Well, why would that why would the
dot.coms even bother getting out of
the dugout? Right.
They know this game is going to end
because the umpire is wearing the
opposing teams jersey.
That's what we have now on our
Supreme Court.
They've taken off their role and
they put on the jersey
of their side of the liberals
who paid, bought and paid for them
to be on the court.
And they're keeping the promises
they made.
That's the second reason.
The third reason I got in this race
because the stakes couldn't be
higher.
If we don't win the
Supreme Court majority back this
April, our next chances
outs of 2028,
they will have had five years
of unchecked power
to attack their political agenda
and repeal every single conservative
reform of the past 15
years.
I wasn't ready to sit back and let
them do this.
Our tax system, our
voter ID laws, school
choice, parental rights,
right to work, and the backing
of our law enforcement and first
responders.
They want to revoke all of these
reforms and turn Wisconsin into a
blue bastion, just like
our neighbors in Illinois and
Minnesota.
This isn't hyperbole.
It's their campaign promise.
We can't sit back, accept defeat,
and watch our state erode
into utter destruction.
We also cannot allow this new
majority to destroy
our highest court.
People should respect the Supreme
Court.
They should have no question about
its integrity. You might disagree
with the decision, but you should
never doubt their objectivity.
We've seen this happen across the
country. Road judges supporting a
radical agenda above the law.
Open the border.
Releasing criminals on our streets.
No man or woman in robes is above
the law.
But this liberal majority in our
Supreme Court thinks they are.
Less than two years ago,
Justice Janet Gross, Savage on the
campaign trail, openly promised
the outcomes and she
promised the outcomes of cases.
She called the legislative maps
absolutely, positively
raped.
And then less than five months
later, she was the deciding
vote. As Trump struck those
very maps out and there were
calls for her to recuse herself,
she said, no thanks.
I'm just. Stay on the case.
In spite of the fact that I can't be
objective. She stayed on the case
and he will complain to the judicial
commission.
But guess who controls the Judicial
commission?
The majority of the Wisconsin
Supreme Court.
And they didn't feel like punishing
themselves.
Folks, the only way
to restore objectivity this court
is to win the election in April.
They've kept they made promises and
kept those promises.
With my race.
The left is running the same
playbook they ran before.
But this time they found an even
more radical candidate.
This time, the candidate they found
is even more partizan.
I'm running a 72 county race
because the people of Wisconsin
deserve a justice who represents
all of Wisconsin.
My opponent is a Dane County judge,
and she's running to make the whole
state look like Dane County.
I'm not ready for that.
Or, you know,
I've spent my entire legal career
defending Wisconsin and its laws.
My opponent has spent much of her
career suing the state of
Wisconsin.
I've spent my career standing up for
victims, search for survivors
of sexual assault and child abuse,
families of homicide victims,
communities stricken by the open in
methamphetamine epidemics.
I put dangerous criminals behind
bars, both as a prosecutor and
a judge.
My opponent released
vile criminals back onto our
streets.
Let's be clear.
My opponent keeps calling yourself
a prosecutor.
There's only one candidate in this
race who has stood in courtrooms
with crime victims to prove their
cases before juries.
I appreciate the work of appellate
attorneys like my opponent once
lost, but that does not
make you a front line prosecutor
like I was for over 25
years.
My opponent was the lawyer who tried
to reveal repeal our voter ID
law.
My opponent was the lawyer who tried
to repeal Act ten.
She cares more about the Madison
elites and the special interest
groups than she does about you.
But the left understands her
vulnerabilities.
That's why they'll spend millions of
dollars distorting the truth in
this election.
My friends, the contrast in
this race could not be clearer.
Do you want a party to uphold the
laws?
Or a candidate who will put her
personal beliefs over the will
of the people?
Do you want billionaires like George
Soros, J.B.
Pritzker, and big tech executives
buying another seat on the Wisconsin
Supreme Court?
Or do you want to elect a proven
public servant who spent his
life 35
years enforcing our laws?
We need justices who respect the
Constitution.
What is sad that their job is
not to make laws from the bench,
but to uphold the law as
it is written.
Judge impartially and
fight for all the people of
this state and protect what has made
Wisconsin great.
I served as a frontline prosecutor
for 25 years
as our attorney general for four
and now six years as a trial judge
here in Waukesha.
The left will attack me personally
and they'll attack my career of
service.
Here's the truth.
Being tough on crime is not a
campaign slogan.
It's a calling.
I've lived my life looking evil
in the eyes and not flinching.
I spent my entire career putting
dangerous criminals behind
bars, ensuring victims are
protected.
Yeah, you know my record.
But I need you to help and
tell your friends and family the
truth when the attacks are flying.
I know that I will be attacked
and made to look like a villain.
Sure, you can come check my
hairline. There. You can see there
are no horns. Okay.
It turns out I was Satan.
Small horns.
That's on the left.
Us.
They run dirty smear tactics
and containment campaigns.
I can handle it.
I've been there before.
I can handle it because the stakes
of this race are too important.
I care about this state, and I
don't want us to lose it.
I spent my career serving you with
integrity and fighting for what is
right.
As a father, a husband, and
a career public servant,
I know the values that matter
most to Wisconsinites.
I promise that if you spend
if you send me the Wisconsin Supreme
Court, I will be a justice
will force to uphold those
values.
Who defends the Constitution
and respects the rule of law?
So here's where I need your help.
First off, we got to get the
nomination papers completed.
And I want to blow past.
I want to We get we need 2000.
We can get you to turn on these 4000
and let's get 10,000.
Because everybody that signs a
nomination paper is making
a commitment. They're making an
investment in this race.
And we'll be sure they get out the
vote and you go first.
More importantly, with
just just one month ago,
3.4 million Wisconsin
showed up to the polls to
vote for president.
But we expect only 2 million to
show up on April 1st.
That. That means whichever campaign
can move can best retain their
voters from November.
Will win in April.
We all have family, friends
and neighbors who are especially
excited for the election this
past month.
Many of those people voted for the
very first time.
I need you to tell them why their
vote this April is even more
important.
So the moment you get home,
open up your phone.
Contact those friends and family.
Tell them what's at stake.
Tell them what the truth is in this
race.
We know what the left will do
because we've seen their playbook.
They will spend ungodly sums
of money from us, the billionaires,
and they'll spread unfounded lies
on how you do that.
Let's get the work done.
I refuse to be outworked in this
race.
Now I need you to be by
my side as we take back
the Wisconsin Supreme Court
together.
Thank you guys for being here today.
Thank you for your all.
You've done over the last 12 months
to call us right here.
And thank you for all to win
for the last four months.
Because the bottom line, to take
a step back to restoring
objectivity, integrity and
humility into Wisconsin Supreme
Court. Thank you, guys.
God bless.