He's a liberal piece of shit. His court cases are numerous, he even opened a case back in 2024 to try and keep Trump off the ballot Just read the article below, it gives you just a taste of the massive POS he is. MaineCat would cheer this guy on and want to have his children. Bangstad’s false claims online led to massive defamation judgmentBangstad said the manipulated image of Holmes and Lakeland Times editor Gregg Walker was “obviously not in the best taste.” It was a response, he said, to a Lakeland Times editorial attacking a Minocqua-area teacher for teaching a book that includes a same-sex couple. Bangstad has spent years feuding with Walker, whose newspaper’s editorial page once called Bangstad a “jackbooted liberal.” To mock Walker, Bangstad put Walker’s face on one of his company’s beers, called Snowflake Ale. The August Facebook post came less than a year after Bangstad was found liable in a defamation lawsuit by Walker. Bangstad was fined $750,000 in that case, reportedly the largest defamation fine in state history. In October he settled the case for $580,000, mostly paid by his insurance company. Walker told police he believed the image was in part retaliation against Holmes for testifying in the civil defamation trial. Holmes and Walker each declined to comment. The Lakeland Times initially sued Bangstad in 2021 after Bangstad called Walker a “crook” and a “misogynist.” One legal expert said Bangstad’s odds of winning that case were high. The statements were confrontational but also likely to be classified by a judge as matters of opinion protected by the First Amendment. But Bangstad did not stop posting about Walker. In August 2021, after Walker had filed suit, Bangstad wrote on Facebook that Walker “allegedly stood by and did nothing while his brother accidentally fell from a tree stand and died” because he “allegedly knew he would inherit the once-legitimate Lakeland Times if his brother was out of the picture,” according to court documents. This wholly false claim would be added to the lawsuit and would result in the largest share of damages awarded to Walker in the case. Walker was a child at the time of his brother’s death and he was not present when the accident happened. Bangstad said he had heard from a Minocqua resident that there was something “fishy” about the death. “I think I made a bit of a leap,” Bangstad said, though he maintains he believed the content of the post at the time. “(But) I never said this is a statement of fact. I said, this is a story I heard. … I thought ‘alleged’ was a get-out-of-jail-free card at the time.” A sign outside Minocqua Brewing Company in Minocqua urges people to boycott the local newspaper. Rob Mentzer/WPR At the trial, Bangstad taunted Walker in the courtroom, the Lakeland Times reported. He was eventually found to be in contempt, fined and threatened with jail time when his disruptive behavior continued. Bangstad calls the case a travesty of justice, and legal experts interviewed for this story did have criticisms of decisions made by Judge Leon Stenz. But the jury’s decision in favor of Walker was unanimous. Bangstad, who has maintained that it is impossible for him to get a fair trial in a largely Republican county, said he sought to appeal but his insurance company had argued that his conduct was not covered under his policy and they should not have to pay. In a negotiated agreement, he paid $50,000 of the total damages. “I can either go bankrupt for 50 [thousand] or I can settle for 50 [thousand],” Bangstad said in characterizing the choice he faced. “But that’s the only reason I made that decision, because to this day, I wish the Supreme Court would have taken [my appeal] because we need to fix these laws.”