How Millions From George Soros Paid For Democrats’ Court Victory in Wisconsin

[Borg warner]

How Millions From George Soros Fueled Democrats’ Court Victory in Wisconsin 

By Joseph Simonson and Andrew Kerr April 7, 2023 Washington Free Beacon

 

The left-wing billionaire George Soros and his network of activist groups spent millions of dollars to help Janet Protasiewicz win a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, a Washington Free Beacon analysis of campaign finance disclosure forms found. The total amount of money stemming from groups bankrolled by the hedge-fund billionaire totals at least $2.8 million, accounting for a quarter of all outside spending for Protasiewicz in the most expensive state supreme court race in history. Soros also personally donated $1 million to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on Feb. 22, which in turn flooded Protasiewicz’s campaign coffers with millions of dollars in the final weeks leading to the election.

Soros claims to have given away more than $12 billion dollars to various charities and political causes. Both Soros and activist groups he funds have spent more than $40 million in the last decade electing left-wing prosecutors around the country, which critics say is at least partially responsible for the nationwide crime spike.Soros has remained laser-focused on reforming the nation’s legal system for years. His Open Society Foundations doubled their funding for Demand Justice, a left-wing activist group that seeks to remake the Supreme Court, to the tune of $4.5 million over three years beginning in 2021, according to tax filings first reported earlier this year. But Soros’s spending in Wisconsin signals that he seeks to remake state courts as well, in what appears to be his first major foray into a state supreme court race.

Sorors will likely see a solid return on his investment. Protasiewicz’s victory over conservative jurist Daniel Kelly gives liberals their first majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 15 years. The consequences of the election are expected to be transformational for the swing state, with the new court expected to rule on a number of hotly-contested issues including the legality of "right to work," abortion access, the state’s legislature map, and voter ID laws.

Many of the top-spending outside groups that supported Protasiewicz count Soros-funded non-profits as their top donors. The Better Wisconsin Together Political Action Fund, which spent $6.2 million on ads supporting the judge, received $1.6 million from the State Victory Action in the first three months of 2023. State Victory Action, in turn, received $1.6 million from the Soros-funded Democracy PAC in 2022, Federal Election Commission records show. State Victory Action was founded in 2018 with $11 million in seed funding from Soros and his fellow liberal billionaire Tom Steyer, the Free Beacon reported. Prostasiewicz enjoyed a roughly $6 million spending advantage over her opponent in the $45 million contest, the most expensive state supreme court race in history.

The Wisconsin Conservation Voters Independent Expenditure Committee, which doled out $1 million in support of Protasiewicz, was bankrolled primarily by the Soros-funded nonprofit America Votes, which funneled $800,000 to the committee in late February and March. Soros’s Open Society network contributed a combined $40.4 million to America Votes from 2017 through 2021. America Votes frequently passes money over to its affiliated Action Fund, such as in July 2022 when the group transferred $2 million to its political arm. The America Votes Action Fund then contributed $447,500 to the Power to the Polls Action Fund in March, enabling the group to spend over $540,000 on mailings, canvassing, and ads in support of Protasiewicz.

One group Soros did not finance was the Organizing Empowerment PAC, whose murky funding became a flashpoint in the contentious race. The group spent $532,500 on voter mobilization efforts for Protasiewicz, but hasn’t disclosed any of its donors to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. The Republican Party of Wisconsin alleged the PAC’s failure to disclose its donors to the state was part of a "shady" and illegal scheme to elect Protasiewicz in a March 14 complaint to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission.

Kelly echoed that claim in his concession speech, claiming "This was the most deeply deceitful, dishonorable, despicable campaign I have ever seen run for the courts."

Few other individuals devoted as much money to electing Protasiewicz as Soros, who is a consistent subject of Republican ire. Most recently, Soros has been in the spotlight regarding his role in electing Democratic Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, who this month charged former president Donald Trump with 32 felonies over hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. Legal observers from across the political spectrum have criticized Bragg’s case as flimsy and politically motivated.

[geeorge]

I like to see Soros along with all the obama's and their stooges impaled on large poles, just like they do in the 4th world countries, hell might as well get the Clintoones too

[Borg warner]

44 minutes ago, geeorge said:

I like to see Soros along with all the obama's and their stooges impaled on large poles, just like they do in the 4th world countries, hell might as well get the Clintoones too

At the end of WWII George Soros, as a boy who was Jewish, was adopted by a German who was Catholic and escaped persecution but at the same time named other people to the Nazis who he knew to be Jewish who had their property confiscated and were then sent to concentration camps. When asked about it later in an interview on 60 minutes with Steve Kroft on December 20, 1998 he said if he hadn't pointed them out, someone else would have. If there is a special place in Hell for someone like that, he belongs there and the sooner he goes there the better.

All the fact checkers say that he never said the words that he supposedly said admiring to helping the Nazis, and if you try googling George Soros interview with Steve Kroft you will come up with something completely different from what I discovered years ago. I used to have the complete transcript of what he said and it no longer exists. and that was back in 1998 and I no longer have the transcript or the link to it. and now for some reason it's very hard to find, but I di some digging and finally came up with it.

 Soros: ``No Sense of Guilt'' for Confiscating Property from 
     Jews in Nazi-occupied Budapest. ``But there was no sense that 
     I shouldn't be there, because that was--well, actually, in a 
     funny way, it's just like in markets--that if I weren't 
     there--of course, I wasn't doing it, but somebody else would 
     . . . be taking it away anyhow . . . whether I was there or 
     not, I was only a spectator, the property was being taken 
     away. So the--I had no role in taking away that property. So 
     I had no sense of guilt.'' (``George Soros,'' 60 Minutes 
     interview transcript, December 20, 1998)
       Extended quotation from the 60 Minutes transcript follows: 
     ``When the Nazis occupied Budapest in 1944, George Soros' 
     father was a successful lawyer. He lived on an island in the 
     Danube and liked to commute to work in a rowboat. But knowing 
     there were problems ahead for the Jews, he decided to split 
     his family up. He bought them forged papers and he bribed a 
     government official to take 14-year-old George Soros in and 
     swear that he was his Christian godson. But survival carried 
     a heavy price tag. While hundreds of thousands of Hungarian 
     Jews were being shipped off to the death camps, George Soros 
     accompanied his phony godfather on his appointed rounds, 
     confiscating property from the Jews.
       (Vintage footage of Jews walking in line; man dragging 
     little boy in line)
       KROFT: (Voiceover) These are pictures from 1944 of what 
     happened to George Soros' friends and neighbors.
       (Vintage footage of women and men with bags over their 
     shoulders walking; crowd by a train)
       KROFT: (Voiceover) You're a Hungarian Jew . . .
       Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.

  KROFT: (Voiceover) . . . who escaped the Holocaust . . .
       (Vintage footage of women walking by train)
       Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Mm-hmm.
       (Vintage footage of people getting on train)
       KROFT: (Voiceover) . . . by--by posing as a Christian.
       Mr. SOROS: (Voiceover) Right.
       (Vintage footage of women helping each other get on train; 
     train door closing with people in boxcar)
       KROFT: (Voiceover) And you watched lots of people get 
     shipped off to the death camps.
       Mr. SOROS: Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that 
     that's when my character was made.
       KROFT: In what way?
       Mr. SOROS: That one should think ahead. One should 
     understand and--and anticipate events and when--when one is 
     threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it 
     was a--a very personal experience of evil.
       KROFT: My understanding is that you went out with this 
     protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted 
     godson.
       Mr. SOROS: Yes. Yes.
       KROFT: Went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of 
     property from the Jews.
       Mr. SOROS: Yes. That's right. Yes.
       KROFT: I mean, that's--that sounds like an experience that 
     would send lots of people to the psychiatric couch for many, 
     many years. Was it difficult?
       Mr. SOROS: Not--not at all. Not at all. Maybe as a child 
     you don't--you don't see the connection. But it was--it 
     created no--no problem at all.
       KROFT: No feeling of guilt?
       Mr. SOROS: No.
       KROFT: For example that, ``I'm Jewish and here I am, 
     watching these people go. I could just as easily be there. I 
     should be there.'' None of that?
       Mr. SOROS: Well, of course I c--I could be on the other 
     side or I could be the one from whom the thing is being taken 
     away. But there was no sense that I shouldn't be there, 
     because that was--well, actually, in a funny way, it's just 
     like in markets--that if I weren't there--of course, I wasn't 
     doing it, but somebody else would--would--would be taking it 
     away anyhow. And it was the--whether I was there or not, I 
     was only a spectator, the property was being taken away. So 
     the--I had no role in taking away that property. So I had 
     no sense of guilt.'' (``George Soros,'' 60 Minutes 
     interview transcript, December 20, 1998).

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