Wisconsin Supreme Court Finance Summaries

November 9, 2009

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All financial summaries cover the complete Supreme Court election cycle, although the actual time period may vary depending on a candidate’s previous electoral activity or when the candidate’s campaign committee first registered and started raising money. Ending cash comes from the July report filed after the election. (For a more complete explanation of campaign finance election cycles see our campaign finance glossary.)

Only final ballot candidates and races with more than one candidate are listed. All figures are rounded to the nearest dollar. Spent includes transfers to committees. Walt Kelly (1997), Louis Butler (2008) and Randy Koschnick (2009) are the only Supreme Court candidates to make such transfers.

Winners’ names are in bold. An asterisk (*) next to a candidate’s name indicates an incumbent. Where an individual campaign finance profile is available for a justice, clicking on the winner’s name will take you to that profile. Individual contributors for all Supreme Court candidates and Justices since 1990 can be found in our searchable database.

Summaries

SPRING 2009

Election date: April 7, 2009

Candidate Beginning
Cash
Raised Spent Ending
Cash
Abrahamson, Shirley S.* $0 $1,469,621 $1,465,578 $4,063
Koschnick, Randy $0 $186,556 $189,153 ($2,597)
Total $0 $1,656,177 $1,654,731 $96,010

 

SPRING 2008

Election date: April 1, 2008

Candidate Beginning
Cash
Raised Spent Ending
Cash
Butler, Louis* $4,353 $780,296 $770,057 $14,592
Gableman, Michael J. $278 $441,051 $410,959 $30,370
Total $4,631 $1,221,347 $1,181,016 $44,962

 

SPRING 2007

Election date: April 3, 2007

Candidates Beginning
Cash
Raised Spent Ending
Cash
Clifford, Linda M. $0 $1,210,645 $1,206,038 $4,608
Ziegler, Annette K. $0 $1,452,258 $1,450,230 $2,028
Total $0 $2,662,903 $2,656,267 $6,636

 

SPRING 2003

Election date: April 1, 2003

Candidates Beginning
Cash
Raised Spent Ending
Cash
Ed Brunner $2,405 $238,575 $240,762 $218
Pat Roggensack $602 $418,045 $416,625 $2,022
Total $3,007 $656,620 $657,387 $2,240

 

SPRING 2000

Election date: April 4, 2000

Candidates Beginning
Cash
Raised Spent Ending
Cash
Louis Butler $1,915 $194,866 $196,359 $422
Diane Sykes* $0 $240,154 $234,603 $5,550
Total $1,915 $435,020 $430,963 $5,972

*Incumbent

 

SPRING 1999

Election date: April 6, 1999

Candidates Beginning
Cash
Raised Spent Ending
Cash
Shirley Abrahamson* $30,537 $715,459 $745,996 $0
Sharren Rose $0 $634,910 $639,894 -$4,984
Total $30,537 $1,350,369 $1,385,890 -$4,984

*Incumbent

 

SPRING 1997

Election date: April 1, 1997

Candidates Beginning
Cash
Raised Spent Ending
Cash
Walt Kelly $0 $488,666 $459,018 $29,647
Jon Wilcox* $0 $426,936 $426,559 $377
Total $0 $915,602 $885,577 $30,025

*Incumbent