
Susan Crawford:
Bad for Wisconsin

Putting Pedophiles and Sex Offenders Before Children




Judge Crawford let child molester Curtis O’Brien out on just $500 bail and let him live across the street from an elementary school while awaiting trial for sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl.1
Crawford gave O’Brien only four years in prison for sexually assaulting the same child three times.2
Crawford gave Kevin Welton, a serial child predator, only four years in prison — even though he should have been sentenced to 100 years behind bars. Welton only served two years and now lives less than four minutes from an elementary school.3
PLACING MURDERerS AND VIOLENT CRIMINALS BEFORE FAMILIES
Radical Susan Crawford has a record of going soft on murderers, giving Drew Luber and Jacob Johnson only six and seven years for beating a man to death.4
Crawford worked on a radical plan to release a record-high 3,000 felons early from prison.5
Crawford supports releasing violent offenders while they await trial, putting us at risk by giving them more time to commit crime.6
MAKING OUR ELECTIONS LESS SECURE
Radical Susan Crawford sued Wisconsin to end Voter ID laws and fought to let anyone vote without proving their identity.7
Crawford even called Voter ID laws “draconian” and compared requiring voters to prove their identity to racist laws that kept Black Americans from voting in the early 1900s.8
Her extreme plans would increase fraud and make our elections less secure.
PUTTING MADISON’S ELITE BEFORE FAMILIES AND POLICE
Radical Susan Crawford has publicly said the dangerously radical Jill Karofsky is her “mentor and shoulder to cry on.”9
Karofsky promised to be a social justice warrior from the bench and put her radical ideology before the law.10
Karofsky has repeatedly let criminals convicted of attacking cops off without jail time.11
As the Executive Director of the Office of Crime Victim Services for Wisconsin’s Department of Justice, Karofsky failed to test thousands of rape kits.12
- “Man Accused of Sexually Assaulting Six-year-old Girl Out on Bond, Living in Black Earth,” Wisconsin Star News, 7/9/2020.
- State of Wisconsin v. O’Brien vs. Curtis J. O’Brien, Case #2018CF000830.
- “Man Faces Up To 100 Years For Assault,” Wisconsin State Journal, 10/29/2019; “Middleton Man Sentenced to 4 Years in Prison for Sexually Assaulting Children in Pool,” Fox 47, 1/27/2020; “Wisconsin Child Molester Free After Judge Susan Crawford’s Slap on the Wrist,” Wisconsin Right Now, 12/19/2024.
- “Two Men Sentenced in Fatal Beating of Dane Man,” Sun Prairie Star, 8/13/2019.
- Dee J. Hall and Mary Spicuzza, “Controversial early release program for prisoners begins with a trickle,” Wisconsin State Journal, 3/20/2010.
- “I’m Well Prepared to be a Judge in Criminal Court,” Madison Cap Times, 3/28/2018.
- Dane County Case No. 2011CV004669 and Supreme Court of Wisconsin Case No. 2012AP584.
- “Wisconsin Voter-ID Lawsuit: No Ruling Imminent in Any of 3 Cases,” Wisconsin State Journal, 1/18/2012; “Susan Crawford: I’m well prepared to be a judge in criminal court,” Wisconsin State Journal, 3/28/2018.
- “A Long, Hard Battle,” Madison Isthmus, 4/5/2018.
- “Who’s Backing Social Justice Warrior Jill Karofsky’s run for the Supreme Court?” Wisconsin Republican Party Press Release, 3/26/2020.
- “ICYMI: Judge Jill Karofsky Goes Easy on Police Attackers,” Wisconsin Republican Party Press Release, 2/11/2020.
- “Little Progress Made on Untested Rape Kits,” Post Crescent, 1/13/2016.