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Eric Toney: “I am now in my 14th year as the elected District Attorney in…”

Featuring: Eric Toney, Republican | Candidate for Attorney General of Wisconsin

Eric Toney | Wisconsin Attorney General Candidate | DrydenWire Live

Published January 22, 2026 | Video Starts at 02:05

Born and raised here in Fond du Lac county and went to did my undergrad at St. Norbert Law School in the Twin Cities and spent a couple years in private practice. And after that, I'm I am now in my 14th year as the elected District Attorney in Fond du Lac county. and served as the president of our District Attorneys association and had the honor of being named our District Attorney of the Year for Wisconsin in 2024. (02:05–02:20)

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“I'm running for Attorney General to try and bring some common sense conservative leadership back to our Department of Justice.”
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“I ended up having myocarditis and was there for about a day and a half.”
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“I was born with what's called a bicuspid heart valve.”
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“My cardiologist told me I'd probably need surgery, you know, and, you know, replace the valve in my 60s.”
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“I learned later was that event was most likely a TIA mini stroke that I had.”
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“We got on the doorstep of winning within, you know, 35,000 votes and getting outspent in the general probably about 6 to 1.”
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“I'm in my now 14th year as the district attorney here in Fond du Lac county.”
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“We've made significant investments in prosecutors, even public defenders, to make sure that we can resolve cases across the state.”
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“All of those [crime lab] reports have been removed from the Department of Justice website.”
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“We were outspent about 6 to 1 [in the general election].”
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“We out fundraised the Democrat incumbent for the finance reporting period by about $160,000.”
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“The Attorney General's campaigning on all of the federal lawsuits that he's joined against the Trump administration.”
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“The majority of [fentanyl], what we're seeing, it's coming across the border from the cartels and then here into Wisconsin.”
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“He doesn't talk about the border crisis and the drugs, the meth, the fentanyl, even cocaine that we're seeing pouring into Wisconsin.”
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“The biggest broken promise that we've seen relates to forensic testing.”
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“He stopped updating [the website that tracks these testing or these cases] in 2021.”
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“He's progressively releasing [crime lab reports] later and later in the year.”
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“He, the Attorney General, put policies in place to law enforcement to limit the number of items they can submit.”
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“There should be a dramatic improvement within two years for the what's called turnaround or average time that those DNA items are tested and…”
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“They had seven less DNA positions filled when that [audit report] was released compared to 2020.”
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“I served as the president of our District Attorneys association.”
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“We were successful in getting three toxicology positions added because of how far behind they are.”
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“He hadn't even filled those positions for toxicology.”
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“Judges say they don't get the testing until days or hours before a trial is supposed to start.”
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“I can't think of a single lawsuit that the attorney General has gotten in against the Biden administration or the Evers administration.”
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“President Trump has also talked about changing the schedule of marijuana away from a Schedule 1, which I think is a great step in the right…”
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