MILWAUKEE, Wis. – Today, David Crowley earned the endorsement of The CapTimes Editorial Board, his second editorial board endorsement David has earned this week. In their endorsement, The CapTimes Editorial Board notes that David supports a woman’s right to choose, has a strong record of working with Democrats and Republicans to deliver for his constituents, and will stand up to the expansion of data centers. In stark contrast, the Editorial Board said “U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany would be a terrible choice for Wisconsin’s highest office,” calling out his extremism and campaign of smears and disinformation.
The CapTimes: David Crowley endorsed by Cap Times Editorial Board
By: The CapTimes Editorial Board
Throughout the election season, we have made it clear that U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany would be a terrible choice for Wisconsin’s highest office. But it’s important to recognize that Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley is not merely a better alternative to Tiffany’s extremism.
Crowley is an outstanding leader, with a track record that convinces us that he will serve as one of Wisconsin’s great governors.
Crowley’s record is his strongest selling point. Again and again, he has taken on tough fights, and more often than not he has found the ways in which to build coalitions that succeed.
Not long after he was elected to the Wisconsin Legislature in 2016, Crowley co-sponsored a joint resolution declaring abortion is healthcare. With his outstanding running mate for lieutenant governor, Sarah Godlewski, Crowley recognizes that banning abortion doesn’t lower the rate of abortions, it just makes it more dangerous for those seeking the procedure and actually leads to more infant deaths, as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has well documented.
Crowley gets the nuances of public health debates. And he is ready to focus on them as governor. He told Cap Times reporter Erin McGroarty that Black infant health will be a priority in his administration. Wisconsin has some of the deadliest rates of Black infant mortality in the nation. McGroarty has been investigating the racial disparities and public health crisis in her series, “Deadly Divide.”
Crowley is pro-worker, pro-farmer and committed to restoring collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin. He’s also pro-environment, with a track record of cutting Milwaukee County’s carbon footprint in half from its 2005 baseline, with a 2050 goal of being 100% carbon neutral in operational emissions by 2050.
Then there’s his bipartisan record. As county executive, he led the passage of Wisconsin Act 12, a landmark bipartisan bill to increase shared revenue for municipalities and counties. A Wisconsin Watch analysis found that this not only marked a jump in state aid for Milwaukee County but also for Wisconsin’s smallest towns and municipalities.
His handling of Act 12 emphasizes his ability to govern in ways that marry his progressive principles with focused bipartisanship.
He also led Milwaukee County through the deadly opioid epidemic, which disproportionately impacted the Black community. He capably handled opioid settlement funds by working with county physicians, medical examiners and public health officials to precisely target where overdose spikes were happening.
Under his watch, opioid deaths decreased for the first time in six years. The difference in fatalities between 2023 and 2026 — 674 vs. 171 — is remarkable.
And, despite the disinformation coming from the Tiffany campaign, Crowley will serve as a competent and powerful guardrail against predatory data center growth. Already, he has signaled he would not only sign a Republican-sponsored bill into law that would repeal a tax break for data centers but also pause new construction, a widely popular stance for Wisconsin voters.
We believe his organizing background coupled with his progressive record will lead Wisconsin through some of the darkest times we’ve faced in modern history.
We look forward to all that can happen, including the expansion of passenger rail services, restoring the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program and the legalization of cannabis in Wisconsin, under a Crowley administration.
