- Eric Toney: I'm Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney, and I'm running to be Wisconsin's attorney general.

And for me, that goes back to 2023, when I learned at 39 years old that I needed to have open-heart surgery because I was born with a defective heart valve.

And I learned on a Monday that I needed that surgery and that it would be the next week, Wednesday, November 15.

And I did what a lot of us would do when you're looking at a surgery like that.

I reflected on my life, and I love what I get to do as a district attorney where I was born and raised, where my dad was a police officer, and my grandfather lived the American dream, starting a small business with no college degree.

It's such a special opportunity to get to keep my community safe.

And as I reflected on my life, I didn't have any regrets.

I wasn't wishing I had done something else or had a different job.

I love what I get to do.

I love what we've been able to do as a team in Fond du Lac County, working with our local law enforcement to protect our community, that I've been able to do as the president of our District Attorneys Association, helping deliver bipartisan public safety results, adding more resources for prosecutors and public defenders across Wisconsin.

It's a special feeling when you know you've lived a life that mattered, and that made it so calming going into that surgery, trusting God through the hands of my medical team.

And I knew that if that surgery went well, that I'd wanna take some of those great things that we've done as a team in Fond du Lac County with our DAs association to our Department of Justice in Madison.

And I'm happy to say that surgery went incredibly well.

I was back to work part-time in about two weeks.

I ran a 5K six weeks afterwards and did a murder trial eight weeks after surgery.

And I'm excited to be in this race for attorney general because, unfortunately, we've seen broken promise after broken promise from our attorney general.

He made commitments to fix forensic testing, he made commitments to go after drug and fentanyl dealers, and he made commitments that we shouldn't have such a partisan Department of Justice.

And he's broken promise after promise and had nearly eight years to fix these, and it's time to make a change at our Department of Justice.

That's why I've got bipartisan support from over 75% of our sheriffs across Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Police Association, the Wisconsin Fraternal Order of Police.

It's the people we trust the most to keep us safe that are trusting me to lead our Department of Justice, to make sure that they've got a partner to help support and make sure they've got the resources needed to protect our communities.

Because our attorney general made promises on forensic testing.

He made commitments on rape kits to get convictions for survivors.

And anytime we get a conviction for a survivor, that's important.

But Wisconsin spent over $9 million testing over 4,000 of those kits, and in nearly eight years, Josh Kaul got less than 15 of those convictions, and he promised more.

We heard Josh Kaul promise that he was gonna fix forensic testing at our crime lab, saying it was gonna get faster.

Well, the results are in, and nearly eight years, Josh Kaul is taking, on average, over twice as long as his predecessor testing DNA, despite Josh Kaul having more analysts, better technology, and testing less.

He's taking longer, nearly twice as long in other categories as well.

And what did Josh Kaul do?

Well, he removed the reports for the crime lab from his website and has started to delay the release of these reports so that it gets past Election Day for him, trying to hide his failure from Wisconsin.

And the impact on this, we have victims with justice being denied.

We have defendants and criminals on our streets longer than they should be, some of which are committing new crimes and new victims, while that original victim's waiting for justice because we have an attorney general that put his personal politics over your public safety.

We learned that Josh Kaul put a hiring freeze in place at our Department of Justice, limiting these great analyst positions' ability to be filled.

I actually, as the president of our District Attorneys Association, helped Josh Kaul get more crime lab resources, and over a year later, a nonpartisan audit showed he hadn't filled them.

So, while Josh Kaul passes the buck, we'll make sure there's never a hiring freeze in place, have formal performance metrics in place, and no work-from-home policies to support those great analysts.

We'll also restore the drug investigator positions that Josh Kaul eliminated, that Nicole Boyd, at the State of the Tribes address this year said was causing unnecessary deaths in Wisconsin.

As a DA, I've sat across from too many moms and dads that have buried their children.

And we wanna continue to see these crime statistics go down, but we need an attorney general that's gonna maximize the resources they have to protect Wisconsin families and communities and make sure that we're putting public safety over politics.

Because Josh Kaul has a history of delay, whether it's crime lab results, failing to release the Missing Women and Indigenous Children report, failing to release the faith-based leader report, and the city of Eau Claire waiting over a year and a half for results from Josh Kaul.

Wisconsin cannot afford another eight years of these failures and broken promises, and that's why law enforcement is standing with me to make a change and have an attorney general that stands with all of Wisconsin, and I'd be honored to have your support as our next attorney general in this November 3 election.

- Josh Kaul: Hi, I'm Josh Kaul.

For more than seven years,