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The Republican candidate for attorney general in Wisconsin is making it clear: The state needs prison, and dangerous criminals need to be locked up.
Eric Toney, the current Fond du Lac County District Attorney and Republican candidate for A-G, on Thursday said he cannot believe that the frontrunner in Wisconsin’s Democrat race for governor wants to defund the police and end incarceration.
“Somebody with the ‘abolish the police’ mentality is clueless, and wants to make places like Wisconsin less safe,” Toney said during an interview on News Talk 1130 WISN. “It’s not a hard concept.”
But it’s something that Toney’s opponent, current Attorney General Josh Kaul, wouldn’t say.
Kaul dodged the question when a reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel asked him at last weekend’s Democrat convention.
Kaul would only say, “I have a lot of confidence in Wisconsin voters to focus on this race in the months ahead and make a decision to get behind a nominee who will be a strong candidate.”
Toney said that should tell voters all they need to know about Kaul’s commitment to safety and law enforcement in Wisconsin.
“There are dangerous people out there who do bad things. And we need police officers on the front lines, that are on the front lines, that are helping keep our communities safe, and take those dangerous criminals off our streets,” Toney added. “It’s a simple concept.”
Toney also criticised Kaul’s lack of support for law enforcement through delays at the state’s crime lab.
“It’s a pretty consistent theme when I talk to sheriffs and law enforcement, the law enforcement associations. They don’t feel like the attorney general is focused on law enforcement priorities.”
Toney said, instead, Kaul is focused on politics.
Kaul’s public record suggests the same.
This month, he announced four efforts to sue or challenge the Trump administration, and just one criminal case conviction.
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