This week a group of 15 retired state Department of Justice (DOJ) criminal investigators, some with GOP ties, released an open letter opposing Democratic AG Josh Kaul’s bid for re-election while endorsing his Republican opponent Eric Toney for Wisconsin’s “top cop” job. The letter is signed by former Department of Corrections Secretary Gary Hamblin, two former DCI administrators and a dozen former DCI special agents. The letter claims Kaul has been “a disaster for law enforcement and has mismanaged the Office of the Attorney General.” The group also claims Kaul has politicized support for law enforcement and points to the high crime rate, among other purported failures, as an example of Kaul’s poor leadership.
In response to the letter, Kaul campaign spokesman Joe Oslund said Toney is “desperate for the facts to match his narrative.” “As AG, integrity matters, and Wisconsinites expect their Attorney General to be right on the facts and clear about where they stand,” Oslund said. “Eric Toney has demonstrated repeatedly he is capable of neither.”
