(31 Mar 2025)
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Green Bay, Wisconsin – 30 March 2025
1. Billionaire and head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk, arriving at town hall wearing cheesehead hat and jumping
2. Musk holding giant check, UPSOUND (English) Musk: "I should say that the the reason, you know, the reason for the check is that it’s really just to get attention. It’s like, we need to get attention. And it’s somewhat, inevitably, when I do these things, the, you know, the sort of – it causes the legacy media to like, kind of lose their minds. And then they’ll, they’ll run it on every news channel. And I’m like, I couldn’t pay them, it would cost like ten times more, you know."
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3. Musk handing $1 million check to voter Nicholas Jacobs
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4. Musk handing $1 million check to voter Ekaterina Diestler
STORYLINE:
Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to President Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization.”
“It’s a super big deal,” he told a roughly 2,000-person crowd in Green Bay on Sunday night, taking the stage in a yellow cheesehead hat. “I’m not phoning it in. I’m here in person.”
Musk and groups he supports have spent more than $20 million to help conservative favorite Brad Schimel in Tuesday’s race, which will determine the ideological makeup of a court likely to decide key issues in a perennial battleground state.
Musk has increasingly become the center of the contest, with liberal favorite Susan Crawford and her allies protesting Musk and what they say is the influence he wants to have on the court.
“I think this will be important for the future of civilization,” he said. “It’s that’s significant.”
He noted that the state high court may well take up redistricting of congressional districts, which could ultimately affect which party controls the U.S. House.
“And if the (Wisconsin) Supreme Court is able to redraw the districts, they will gerrymander the district and deprive Wisconsin of two seats on the Republican side,” Musk said.
“Then they will try to stop all the government reforms we are getting done for you, the American people.”
A unanimous state Supreme Court on Sunday refused to hear a last-minute attempt by the state’s Democratic attorney general to stop Musk from handing over the checks to two voters, a ruling that came just minutes before the planned start of the rally.
Two lower courts had already rejected the legal challenge by Democrat Josh Kaul, who argues that Musk’s offer violates a state law.
“Wisconsin law prohibits offering anything of value to induce anyone to vote,” Kaul argued in his filing. “Yet, Elon Musk did just that.”
But the state Supreme Court, which is currently controlled 4-3 by liberal justices, declined to take the case as an original action. The court gave no rationale for its decision.
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