Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race

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Source: The Guardian

Elon Musk gave out $1m 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 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 $20m to help conservative favourite 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 favourite 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.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/31/elon-musk-1-million-dollar-checks-wisconsin-voters-supreme-court-election

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[Bengus81]

1. Attempting to buy elections is now fully LEGAL in the US....

As long as your Musk or any other Republican.

[sop]

2. In my lifetime we've gone from strictly enforced limits on campaign donations,

to now the richest man in the world publicly handing out $1M checks to voters. Our electoral system is completely broken.

[mpcamb]

15. Is it illegal to sell your vote? If not, shouldn't it be?

[SergeStorms]

11. "Citizens" United.

More like "Billionaires" United. They've purchased the White House, the Congress, and the Judiciary. It's their's, until THE PEOPLE decide to take it back, if that's even possible anymore.

[Hugin]

3. Even though he's special...

Aren’t Federal employees barred from partisan political activities by numerous laws and statutes?

[gab13by13]

4. What is Ken Martin doing to counter this?

[lark]

5. I can't believe how this band of evil fascists is stealing our country, so now bribery is legal- if THEY do it!

Guarantee you if it was a Dem, they'd be sitting in prison right now. America is on it's last gasp right now!!!

[bluestarone]

6. WTF??

We lose even when we have control. WTF?

[Wicked Blue]

7. I'll bet they bounce

[Deminpenn]

8. Wait until the recipients find out how much tax they'll owe to

the state, federal and perhaps local government. On federal taxes, if your income is over 100k, you can't use the tax table to determine what you owe. The recipients won't have all the loopholes and fancy accounting that the very rich have to avoid paying taxes.

[taxi]

9. Funny that the article left out the part where the recipients described the profound changes the found money would bring

to their lives. Even people who have not received money are more than happy to broadcast all the good deeds that will come from their windfall. Many of us have heard it for ourselves, especially when stuck in a line near a lottery machine when the jackpots are high. All my friends will get this, all my family will get that, I'll invest in the best businesses, and live off the interest. Strange, nothing but crickets from these two lucky winners.

[Paladin]

10. Not even the slightest effort to disguise the corruption.

A year or two ago, would you have ever believed that this country could go this deep into the shitter, this quickly?

What are we going to do about it?

[4catsmom]

12. can't wait until this is illegal again

and he's prosecuted

[mitch96]

13. Take the money, give to charity and vote DEMOCRAT!!! NT

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Rejecting him after wearing this hat would bring me great joy, Wisconsin.

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