If you visit https://www.facebook.com/WIFFC from your computer, you’ll see that the record 9,600 viewers for a video on our webpage for a past post on a legislative proposal was shattered as more than 17,000 have now now viewed the outstanding 23-minute interview the Wisconsin Faith and Freedom Coalition Chair Pastor Paul Hoover conducted with Supreme Court candidate Judge Maria Lazar. 

To date Judge Chris Taylor has not scheduled an interview or submitted written answers to the same questions, but we continue to hope that she can – particularly now that she has rescheduled the debate appearance she had to cancel the day after we posted the Lazar interview – and the two will now debate April 2. We will post her answers or interview if submitted.

Note that if you view the post on mobile you will not see the count, but if you view on a computer you will see the count below the “create ad” button at 17,000 views and growing – as circled in red.

For context, our page’s previous high watermark was 9,600 views several years ago for a Capitol testimony. But after our Executive Director, Chris O’Brien, shared the post with a wide network of partner organizations, it began to spread rapidly It went viral – and shows no signs of slowing down.

It is also an example of the partnerships we believe all pro-family groups should have, in this case between state organizations carrying out the national missions that grew out of the late, great James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, and the National Faith and Freedom organization founded by Ralph Reed. The Wisconsin Family Council run by Daniel Degner who gave the introduction for the interview grew out of Focus on the Family, as did Georgia Frontline run by Cole Muzio, who was WIFFC President John Pudner’s No. 2 for years until as Pudner quips “dong what most of my employees do, going onto greater heights than me!”

Below is the email and transcript sent summarizing our first Candidates of Faith interview withMaria Lazara and an opportunity for Chris Taylor to answer the same questions.

Email sent previously summarizing both WIsconsin Supreme Court candidates

Please click on Maria Lazar – Video and Transcript as well as Supreme Court Q&A – Chris Taylor—and if you live in Wisconsin, make a plan to vote by April 7 for Supreme Court.

Head to myvote.wi.gov with any questions and be sure you know the rules to make your vote count. For example, a fun fact: if you or a friend live and work overseas but your last U.S. address was in Wisconsin, you can still vote in this election—even if the place you lived has since been torn down!

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The Wisconsin Faith and Freedom Coalition (WIFFC) Chairman Paul Hoover of South Harbor Baptist Church did a great job with the questions you will see in both blogs.

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Why We Present Both Candidates

When asked why we reserve a blog spot—or half of a comparison piece like during Trump v Harris—for each candidate, I often tell people about one of the greatest pro-life speakers, Ruth V.K. Pakaluk (March 19, 1957 – September 23, 1998), who now has a case being built for sainthood.

When she was asked by a group to speak, she would respond that it seemed like a great opportunity—but then would shock the organizer by asking, “who is the pro-choice speaker?”

When the organizer was surprised, she would explain that they could have a couple dozen people come hear a pro-life speech—or a couple hundred come to hear a debate. She led Massachusetts Citizens for Life before cancer struck her at a young age.

In many cases, liberal candidates answer to liberal non-profits and conservative candidates answer to conservative non-profits. However, there have been notable exceptions.

For example, a mentor of mine, Morton Blackwell, founded the grandfather of all grassroots conservative non-profits, the Leadership Institute. They have trained thousands of conservatives who have worked on every presidential effort since Ronald Reagan.,You would be surprised which campaign used them one year.

In 1992, the re-election campaign of George H.W. Bush chose not to have their grassroots team send anyone through the Leadership Institute school—and to their surprise, Bill Clinton’s campaign sent their organizers through it. As a 501(c)(3), LI trained them.

The fact that it was Bill Clinton who decided his team should participate in something organized by “the other side” reminds me of the old adage: if you wanted to find Bill Clinton in a room of 500 people, you just needed to find the person who hated him most—and he would be there talking to them.

People thought Donald Trump was going to “talk to the other side” the first time he went to inner-city Detroit. He spoke at the church of Pastor Lorenzo Sewell, who two years later was our Salt and Light keynote.

All 501(c)(3) organizations like us should offer all candidates the opportunity to answer the same questions—and then provide both the questions and answers to readers to encourage informed voting.

Make a Plan—In Wisconsin and Beyond

Encourage everyone in Wisconsin to vote by April 7 for Supreme Court. Encourage everyone you know in Virginia to vote on April 21 on whether to gerrymander the state from 5 of 11 Republican Members of Congress to instead have the 48% Republican vote result in 1 of 11 Republican Members.

Ask everyone in Alabama—where our c4 Freedom and Family Action opens its office the Sunday after Easter—to come by that event and then vote May 19.

I was with Pastor Jonathan Falwell for his service at Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia earlier this month—the church that convinced millions of fundamentalist Christians, going back to the 1970s (when only about 12% were voting because politics seemed too evil), to start voting. That same movement helped establish Liberty University, which produces 10s of thousands of great leaders including the podcast host for this event Dan Degner of Wisconsin Family Council.

When people vote, good things happen—just as we mentioned in last week’s email that noone thought i would ever write, “No March Madness – Elections too Important,” about the Men of Christ event, where 3,100 people showed up for an all day event that had just 10 RSVPs when it started 20 years ago.

Make a plan to vote by election day—and ask your friends to make a plan as well.

In addition to April 7 in Wisconsin, April 21 in Virginia, and May 19 in Alabama, if you aren’t sure when primaries are in your state, click here to look them up:
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/2026-state-primary-election-dates

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Pastor Paul J. Hoover, Board Chair
John Pudner, President
Holly Klucarich, Nat’l Strategic Engagement & Operations
Chris O’Brien, ED & Church Outreach
Spencer LaVerde, State Director
Kelly Herrell, Event Director
Joe Meleski, Field Director
Dr. Virginia Pratt, Community Outreach Director

All team bios at https://wisconsinffc.com/bios/

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