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Eric Toney: “We get that guidance from the very election manual that the…”

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

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Wisconsin Attorney General Debate

Published | Video Starts at 36:03

I also trust our prosecutors across Wisconsin to use their discretion and handle things on a case by case basis because we have amazing prosecutors across Wisconsin and that's what we do in every single case, … We get that guidance from the very election manual that the attorney general's office sends out year after year. … so I'm not going to follow the instructions from the judge. But that's effectively what our attorney general is doing, is saying he doesn't like the law, so he's not going to enforce it. (36:03–36:08)

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Asserts that his actions are guided by the election manual distributed by the attorney general's office.

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