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Eric Toney: “Public safety is on the ballot.”

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

Wisconsin Attorney General Debate

Published October 27, 2022 | Video Starts at 58:36

Those are the wrong priorities for Wisconsin. Thank you, Mr. Call Mr. Toney one minute for a closing statement. Public safety is on the ballot. Anybody that's watching this debate can go to my website and you'll probably see a sheriff, a district attorney or a police association that is lined up behind me overwhelmingly … (58:36–58:39)

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Asserts that public safety is a key issue in the election.

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“Over 40% increase in opioid deaths here in Wisconsin.”
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“You've refused to speak out against Tony Evers and the Commissioner releasing nearly 300 murderers and child rapists.”
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“Brad Schimmel did it in about 50 days for the average turnaround time. It's taking Our Attorney General 115 days to test thousands of less…”
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“We've seen a consequence with those sex predator cases that our Attorney general has failed to have assigned out with a backlog of over…”
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“Law enforcement has seen the public safety failures over the last four years from our attorney General, who has left special agent positions…”
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“The crime labs have more or equal resources that Brad Schimmel had when he was our attorney general.”
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“In DNA alone, the attorney general is testing a couple thousand less items than Brad Schimmel.”
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“He's failed at his number one campaign promise of fixing our crime labs, taking over twice as long as former Attorney General Brad Schimmel…”
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“Mr. Turner is not behind bars. He's in a locked unit for a violent sex offender petition that I helped initiate in 2018 under Attorney…”
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“We've seen our Attorney General leave these DCI positions unfilled. His own director of the Division of Criminal Investigation in March at a…”
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“Eau Claire field office for the Division of Criminal Investigation, half staffed, only 8 out of 16 agents.”
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“He's left nearly 30% of the criminal litigation prosecutors unfilled, according to a Wisconsin State Journal article earlier this year.”
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“Nearly 25% vacancy rate at the Division of Criminal Investigation.”
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“We need to give our Attorney General's office original prosecution authority over Milwaukee County.”
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“Chapter 17, I think 1711 allows the governor to suspend a district attorney or sheriff if they refuse or neglect to perform their duties and…”
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“He's failed to address the opioid epidemic.”
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“He's failed to address our crime labs.”
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“Every single one of those administrator and director positions have left since he started to bring in new people because of his failed…”
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“Those numbers come from his own director, Tina Virgil, who said they're at 88 out of 113.”
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“I will defend any additional exception that the legislature passes.”
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“We have a couple statutes on the books right now, election fraud and state ethics codes that actually allow a district attorney to prosecute…”
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“Our Attorney General has advocated for the attorney General to have original jurisdiction across the entire state of Wisconsin.”
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“If he were serious about those resources, the, those special agents, the agents of law enforcement positions wouldn't have been left vacant.”
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“He's depleted resources from DCI and prosecutors.”
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“The law does not allow for the prosecution of a woman [for abortion].”
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“It doesn't allow for a prosecution across state lines.”
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“I follow the rules of law.”
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“We have amazing prosecutors across Wisconsin.”
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“We get that guidance from the very election manual that the attorney general's office sends out year after year.”
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“I've never had a juror raise their hand and say, well, I don't like the law, so I'm not going to follow the instructions from the judge.”
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“Our attorney general is saying he doesn't like the law, so he's not going to enforce it.”
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“I wish he would spend that much time focused on our crime labs and fixing the failing crime labs.”
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“I've been the most vocal statewide Republican candidate that we cannot decertify the election.”
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“There was no widespread voter fraud that would have overturned the results of the election.”
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“You argued for a special counsel to investigate that election.”
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“My office asked for high cash bail, $5,000 cash that he was held on. We objected to the signature bond request that the defense attorney…”
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“The attorney general has attacked me for one of those convictions.”
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“Every single police chief in Fond du Lac county, my sheriff, 60 of our sheriffs across Wisconsin, over 100 police chiefs, sheriffs and…”
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“Both of those convictions from a Tony Evers appointed judge.”
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“When I took office, we were not in compliance with the state statute to prosecute those cases. Within two weeks, we put ourselves in…”
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“Chapter 51, Mental Health Commitment. The law is on the books. Where somebody can get in front of a judge within 72 hours, a jury trial…”
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“There's a slow moving mass shooting going on through Milwaukee right now. Over 20 children murdered this year.”
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“We need to make sure we are putting mandatory minimums on people that are using guns to commit violent crimes.”
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“I refuse to accept the violence that we're seeing in Milwaukee as the new normal.”
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“I've committed to enforcing the rule of law, not just when I agree, not just when it's popular.”
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“I will evaluate each case to make sure that we're following the law and we will protect and defend our environment here in Wisconsin.”
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“I am prosecuting people for election fraud.”
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“We've already convicted two people from the November 2020 election.”
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“I started an opioid coalition in Fond du Lac County. A four pillar approach that we merged with our drug free communities.”
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“I helped bring a drug court to Fond du Lac County.”
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“We expanded our diversion program to do more drug testing.”
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“There was a stimulus statewide opioid task force. If you go on that website right now, it still lists former Lt. Governor Rebecca Clayfish…”
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“You'll probably see a sheriff, a district attorney or a police association that is lined up behind me overwhelmingly.”
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“I will never allow the DCI agent positions, the prosecutor positions to go to disrepair.”
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“The crime lab wouldn't be in the situation it is.”
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“The crime labs taking longer in many categories on his watch.”
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