March 31 (UPI) -- Elon Musk, the world's richest man, handed out two $1 million checks to voters in Wisconsin on Sunday night as he pushes to elect conservative Brad Schimel to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in a contest he said had the "destiny of humanity" at stake.
The move was challenged by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Friday after Musk announced it, with the state's high court ruling against his injunction just minutes before the Tesla and SpaceX CEO took the stage at the KI Convention Center in downtown Green Bay at about 7:40 p.m. local time Sunday.
Musk handed the two large checks to voters Nicholas Jacobs and Ekaterina Diestler, describing the act of giving out money in the election as a way to generate cheap publicity for his candidate while mocking so-called legacy media.
"The reason for the checks is really to get attention," he said during the event, which was broadcast on his X platform, stating it would cost "10 times more to get the coverage we get."
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