{"id":1591,"date":"2023-03-28T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2023-03-28T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T11:06:02","slug":"janet-protasiewicz-elderly-abuse-racial-slur-allegations-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1591","title":{"rendered":"Janet Protasiewicz Elderly Abuse &amp; Racial Slur Allegations Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/round-up\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/round-up\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A total of<strong> 6 people<\/strong> have come forward as either eyewitnesses or corroborating witnesses to the elder abuse allegations against Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz. Yet most of the news media is censoring the allegations.<\/li>\n<li>Two of the people are <strong>eyewitnesses<\/strong> who say they personally witnessed the abuse; the other four are corroborative witnesses who say they heard about it years ago, either from Protasiewicz\u2019s then-husband, Judge Patrick Madden, or from Madden\u2019s son Michael.<\/li>\n<li>There are <strong>2 named witnesses<\/strong> who have come forward regarding the racial slur allegations. They are Protasiewicz\u2019s former stepson and a self-described liberal former restaurant\/bar owner named Jon Ehr.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Six people have accused Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz of elder abuse, and two people say they heard her use racial slurs, yet most of the Wisconsin media are censoring the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations date to 1997, when Protasiewicz, then 34 and an assistant district attorney in Milwaukee County, was married for less than a year to staunchly conservative retired Milwaukee County Judge, Patrick J. Madden, then 70. Madden is now deceased. Although she has not responded to us, Protasiewicz has denied the allegations to other media outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Her opponent in the state Supreme Court race, Dan Kelly, says the allegations are \u201ccredible,\u201d and should be investigated. Kelly and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson have slammed the media for not covering the allegations more widely. All television stations, for example, have censored them.<\/p>\n<h2>Janet Protasiewicz Elder Abuse Allegations Rounded Up<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Michael Madden<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-102837 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/madden-on-protasiewiczs-racial-c-1-300x169-1.jpg\" alt=\"Janet Protasiewicz Elderly Abuse &amp; Racial Slur Allegations\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" title=\"Janet Protasiewicz Elderly Abuse &amp; Racial Slur Allegations\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The former stepson of Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-was-a-pro-life-conservative\/\">Janet Protasiewicz<\/a>\u00a0alleges that Protasiewicz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-repeatedly-assaulted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repeatedly assaulted<\/a> her then-husband \u2013 his elderly father Patrick J. Madden \u2013 by allegedly slapping Madden with an open hand so hard that she left part of a handprint on his face and aggressively pushing the 70-year-old veteran judge so forcefully that he injured his shoulder and almost fell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw it with my own two eyes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was physical abuse brought on and fueled by alcoholism,\u201d Michael alleged. He said he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d characterize the abuse as assaults by Protasiewicz.\u00a0<strong>\u201cI would say it was elder abuse.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0He says he would be willing to testify under oath and challenged\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.janetforjustice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Protasiewicz<\/a>\u00a0to sit with him at a kitchen table with journalists and discuss it.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Michael Madden #4\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rRtjGTW1IPE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Michael Madden lived in the house with Protasiewicz and his dad throughout their short marriage, court records confirm. Protasiewicz has slammed Madden for 31-year-old drug convictions, although he says he took responsibility for them and has had no brushes with the law for three decades.<\/p>\n<p>The Madden\/Protasiewicz marriage broke down into an ugly divorce in which Protasiewicz even tried to get a family grave plot, which would have seen her buried next to the judge\u2019s deceased first wife, who died of cancer.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>2. Jonathan Ehr<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_102781\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102781\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-102781 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/IMG_3171-e1679553488956-201x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"jon ehr\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" title=\"Janet Protasiewicz Elderly Abuse &amp; Racial Slur Allegations\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon ehr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-used-racial-slurs-allegedly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonathan Ehr<\/a>, 65, is a former Milwaukee restaurant and bar owner who is long-time friends with the Madden family. His now-deceased attorney father was also friends with Judge Madden for decades. Ehr, a self-described \u201cliberal\u201d who used to run the Ardmore on the Marquette campus, was at the Madden home growing up and throughout the years, including during the judge\u2019s 1997 short-term marriage to Protasiewicz, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cPhysically, I, you know, I saw her like push and shove him, and that kind of thing. You know, \u2018I don\u2019t want to go, I\u2019m not up for that, I don\u2019t want to do it,\u2019 and, you know, she\u2019s, kind of, kind of abusive that way. I don\u2019t think she realized that he was as old as he was, you know. She shouldn\u2019t have been treating him that way. It\u2019s the age difference again, you know. She just didn\u2019t understand how to handle him. She had some other issues as well that I remember the judge saying and talking about.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Listen to Ehr\u2019s full interview here:<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-103280-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%\" controls><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/John-EHR-1.mp3\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/John-EHR-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>3. Dr. Mark Madden<\/h3>\n<p>Dr. Mark Madden, the second former stepson of Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz to come forward, told Wisconsin Right Now that he remembers his brother, Michael, telling him in 1997 that Protasiewicz allegedly \u201cslapped him (her husband) around a bit,\u201d referring to their father, retired Judge Patrick J. Madden.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mark Madden, who is a retired orthopedic surgeon from Virginia with no criminal history, previously told Wisconsin Right Now that he did not know about the alleged abuse, but he told us that he meant then only that he did not <em>actually see<\/em> the alleged abuse himself, because he did not live in the house or state. In contrast, he said, Michael Madden lived in the home with the couple, and court records confirm that.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Madden told us that <em>he heard<\/em> about the abuse at the time because Michael Madden called him during the 1997 marriage between Protasiewicz, 34, and Judge Madden, 70, and told him about the alleged abuse at that time.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that Michael alleged that Protasiewicz was \u201cdrunk again and pushing dad around.\u201d He said Michael made it clear that he was alleging that Protasiewicz was pushing Judge Madden around physically.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>4. Arizona Woman<\/h3>\n<p>An Arizona woman who is married to a prominent business executive told Wisconsin Right Now that Judge Madden told her in 2000 or 2001 that Protasiewicz was physically abusive to him.<\/p>\n<p>She requested that we not print her name, although we know it, and we have spoken to her on the telephone at length.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe slapped the judge around,\u201d the Arizona woman alleged of Protasiewicz. \u201cOh my gosh it was at least 20 years ago, when my little guy was small, but Michael and I would talk, and he told me right away about his stepmom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said she heard about the physical abuse allegations from both Michael Madden and Judge Madden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth. I heard it from both. The judge mentioned it a couple of times. Judge \u2013 he had said she was physically abusive. He was a much older man. I\u2019m listening. I kind of raised my eyebrows. He said, \u2018She slapped me a few times,\u2019 and I thought, really? I didn\u2019t want to be nosy. I was just more shocked than anything at the way she treated him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Arizona woman said that Judge Madden also said Protasiewicz was mentally abusive in addition to physically. \u201cThere was some drinking going on as well. The judge brought it up a couple times; he was saying he had a wonderful first marriage. but the second marriage was a bad marriage, a troubled marriage, a short one too, thank God. It should have ended a lot sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added of Michael Madden, \u201cMichael is a good man. He screwed up when he was younger. That should not follow a person for the rest of their lives. He helps out people all the time. For years and years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe (Michael) had said she had slapped his father around and was horribly mentally abusive. It was terrible, he said. It was just terrible.\u201d The Arizona woman said she heard all of this in 2000 or 2001.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>5. A Family Friend<\/h3>\n<p>A family friend offered a point of corroboration, telling Wisconsin Right Now in a separate interview that Michael Madden told him on two occasions in 1997 that Protasiewicz had physically abused his father.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can corroborate him (Michael) telling me about this in the time frame of that marriage,\u201d the man said. We have his full name and interviewed him for some time. However, he wanted to stay anonymous because of the contentiousness of the state Supreme Court race.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>6. Rita<\/h3>\n<p>In her 80s, Rita lives in a Florida condo complex where the judge would stay after his divorce. She still lives there. We have Rita\u2019s last name, but she also did not want it printed because of the contentiousness of the state Supreme Court race. She said we could print her first name, however. We spoke to her on the phone from her home in Florida.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cI know she was abusive to him. She was very abusive. The whole thing was very sad. It was a bad situation. He was not proud of that moment,\u201d said Rita of Protasiewicz. Rita said she was told Protasiewicz \u201cwas not a nice person.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rita said she learned this all years ago, but she couldn\u2019t remember whether she heard it from Judge Madden\u2019s son Michael Madden or Judge Madden himself because it was so long ago. \u201cShe\u2019s not fit to run in the office,\u201d concluded Rita.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations are not mentioned in the divorce file and police were not called; the Madden brothers say their father was a private man, an elderly Navy veteran of a different generation, who would not have shared something like that in public.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Protasiewicz Racial Slur Allegations<\/h2>\n<h3>1. Michael Madden<\/h3>\n<p>Madden, Protasiewicz\u2019s then stepson, said in a videotaped interview that he heard Protasiewicz use the \u201cN-word\u201d to refer to blacks who were involved in court cases while she served as a prosecutor in Milwaukee County Children\u2019s Court, including the parents of black children and blacks accused of crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, he recalls her using the \u201cN-word\u201d to refer to parents of black children in Children\u2019s Court cases and also called them \u201clowlifes,\u201d he said. At another point, he said she also referred to criminal defendants as the \u201cN-word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Madden on Protasiewicz&#039;s Racial Comments\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-wQBRBl8lI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>2. Jon Ehr<\/h3>\n<p>Jon Ehr, a former Milwaukee restaurant\/bar owner and self-described \u201cliberal,\u201d told Wisconsin Right Now that Protasiewicz used the \u201cN-word\u2019 in front of him to refer to blacks and also used a racial slur to refer to Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was the \u201cN-word\u201d and then I thought she said, I could have sworn she said, beaner, or something, beaner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-103280-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%\" controls><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ehr2.mp3\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Ehr2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Asked again if he ever heard Protasiewicz say a racial slur, Ehr said, \u201cI did.\u201d He added that he did not \u201cknow what they were talking about at the time\u201d because it was so many years ago. \u201cI was surprised, and I don\u2019t even know what they were talking about,\u201d he said. However, he said it was clear Protasiewicz meant it in a derogatory fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Asked who he meant by \u201cthey,\u201d Ehr said, \u201cJanet and the judge were talking. And I remember, Judge, I never heard anything bad come out of that man. 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