Karofsky Campaign Issues Cease and Desist Over Attack Ads
Campaign calls ads "false, baseless, and disgusting."
Jill Karofsky. Photo from Jill for Justice.
Judge Jill Karofsky’s Supreme Court campaign announced it would issue a cease and desist letter on Friday, demanding that groups supporting her opponent, Justice Daniel Kelly, immediately stop airing attack ads that falsely claim Karofsky was the prosecutor who struck a plea deal allowing a man charged with sexual assault of a child not to serve time behind bars.
Two Republican State Leadership Committee digital ads call Karofsky “dangerously soft on crime” and refer to the case State of Wisconsin vs. Donald A Worley.
Former Gov. Scott Walker, who appointed Karofsky’s opponent, Kelly, to the Supreme Court, tweeted out one of the ads on Friday:
Liberal Jill Karofsky is dangerously soft on crime. Watch these powerful ads from @RSLC
Then visit https://t.co/eEOFaAjLUk to get a ballot mailed to you so you can vote for @JusticeDanKelly pic.twitter.com/pEZfcTT3DB
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) March 27, 2020
But the Karofsky campaign says she had nothing to do with the 1999 case.
“Court records clearly show Karofsky first made an appearance on 7/30/2001, at a hearing to extend Worley’s probation, more than a year after a different Dane County Assistant District Attorney reached the plea deal with the defendant,” a campaign press release states. “The defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years probation on 3/20/2000.”
“These false, baseless, and disgusting attack ads must be pulled down immediately,” said Karofsky campaign manager Tyler Hendricks.
“Judge Jill Karofsky has spent decades as a victim’s advocate and she’s the only candidate who has held violent criminals accountable as a trial court judge.”
You can watch the ads here and here.
Reprinted with permission of Wisconsin Examiner.
