State Supreme Court candidates speak against negative ads

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Negative campaigning took the spotlight at a debate between the two candidates for the state Supreme Court.

The debate took place Tuesday night at the State Bar of Wisconsin in Madison.

Challenger Judge Michael Gabelman argued that the backgrounds of both candidates should be fair game in the race.

An ad from Gabelman's campaign has been criticized as distorting the facts of a case from when incumbent Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler was a defense attorney.

Butler says the ad never should have aired. He called the ad "disgusting and embarrassing."

Both candidates did take aim at special interest groups that are running attack ads against each of them.

Gabelman says those groups can "take their interest elsewhere."

Butler says the race would be better off without them and urged voters to rise up and reject those kinds of ads.

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