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Toney Goes After Josh Kaul
The Republican running for attorney general in Wisconsin is once again asking why Josh Kaul isn’t focusing on his job.
Kaul on Thursday announced that he is suing a number of companies for allowing futures bets.
Kaul filed a lawsuit against sites like Kalshi, Robinhood, Coinbase, Polymarket, Crypto.com, alleging that they are profiting from bets in Wisconsin and other states.
"[These] companies collect a fee for every bet made, meaning they generate revenue from Wisconsinites by violating the state’s gambling laws," Kaul said in a statement. "Kalshi, as one example, reportedly generates more than $1 billion in annual revenue from its sports contracts, representing around 90% of its total estimated annualized revenue."
The lawsuit is one of several that Kaul has filed this year, though many of his lawsuits are aimed at the Trump Administration.
AG candidate, and Fond du Lac County DA, Eric Toney, said Kaul's focus on litigation is taking away his focus from being Wisconsin's top cop.
“We see it as another one of the broken promises that we've seen from him since he first started running for attorney general,” Toney said in an interview on News Talk 1130 WISN Friday. “He will make comments about protecting victims and the importance of it, but then we look at what is actually the opposite.”
This week is National Crime Victims' Rights Week. Kaul has so far not said, or done, anything about it.
His press release archive mentions two lawsuits, and two investigations into officer-involved deaths, but nothing about crime victims.
But it's not just crime victims. Toney said Kaul is also ignoring police and prosecutors.
“There are many areas in the state where they don't trust him [because of] his lack of leadership,” Toney added. “We have to get back to a point where our law enforcement trusts our attorney general to work and partner with them to keep our communities safe.”
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