Hijacking Campaign 2019 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2019
Posted: March 18, 2019
Updated: June 21, 2021
Spring: Oath • Spending
Special: Oath • Spending
This committee is used by Planned Parenthood, which is the leading advocate and provider of reproductive health care for women in the state and the nation, to make independent expenditures to support Democratic candidates in legislative and statewide races in Wisconsin.
Spring
In mid-March it first reported spending $120,000 for online advertising and canvassing expenses to support Court of Appeals Chief Judge Lisa Neubauer for the state Supreme Court held on April 2. A few days later it reported addtional spending on Facebook and Twitter advertisements. Neubauer ran against fellow Court of Appeals Judge Brian Hagedorn, the eventual winner, to fill the seat vacated by former Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson.
Special
The same time it was making independent expenditures in the state Supreme Court race, it also reported spending on Facebook ads in support of Gina Walkington, one of three Democrats running in the special election primary for the 64th Assembly District seat in Kenosha. She lost in the primary.
The seat had been left vacant when the incumbent, Democrat Rep. Peter Barca, left to take a position with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers's new administration. The Democratic primary for that seat was on April 2, the same day as the Supreme Court election.
About five days before the April 30 special election in Kenosha, it reported spending $100 on Facebook ads to support the Democratic candidate and eventual winner Thaddeus "Tip" McGuire.
Last active election: 2018
This organization is an unregistered independent expenditure committee that is required to report any such spending done within 60 days of a primary or an election to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission per Chapter 11, Subchapter X of Wisconsin Statutes.