“Susan Happ: Soft on crime, no respect for victims, wrong for Wisconsin.”

So ends a scathing ad attacking the Democrat candidate for attorney general candidate and Jefferson County district attorney, paid for by the Republican Party of Wisconsin.

The ad focuses on details of an ethics complaint filed against Happ by the victim in a child sexual assault case.

A call to Happ’s campaign for reaction to the video has not been returned.

As I noted last week, Happ signed off on a deal that reduced felony child sexual assault charges to misdemeanor disorderly conduct for a man who had previously bought land from Happ and her husband.

The new ad uses television news reports to flay Happ’s decision not to appoint a special prosecutor in the assault case and her refusal to answer questions about a possible conflict of interest with the accused.

“Happ’s soft-on-crime approach and glaring conflict of interest demonstrates how she would take the Department of Justice backward,” Wisconsin GOP communications director Lauren Clark said in an e-mail statement. “Wisconsin voters deserve an Attorney General who will fight for victims, not criminals.”