Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul and GOP challenger Eric Toney met in Madison at the Wisconsin State Bar Association for their second and final debate before the November 8 general election. Toney argued Kaul should not be re-elected because of slow turnaround times on evidence testing at the state crime labs and leaving investigator and prosecutor positions unfilled at the state Department of Justice. Kaul claimed Toney was exaggerating the number of unfilled positions and confirmed a report released by DOJ earlier in October that showed 83 of 90 special agent positions were filled and 43 of 50 prosecutor were filled was in fact accurate. “Mr. Toney doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” Kaul said.
For his part, Kaul focused on Toney’s promise to enforce Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban and argued Toney wants to use the authority and resources of DOJ to prosecute women and doctors for having an abortion. “Our AG needs to have public safety as its top priority,” Kaul said. “Not a far-right, radical agenda that wants to make sure a law with no exceptions for rape or incest… is enforced.” Toney shot back, “what you just heard is the attorney general calling a district attorney a ‘radical’ because we would enforce the rule of law.”
Watch the debate here
