Hijacking Campaign 2021 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2021
Posted: January 22, 2021
Updated: July 30, 2021
This committee was created to make independent expenditures in legislative and statewide elections by the Wisconsin Realtors Association, the state lobbying group that pushes state spending, tax, and other policies that benefit realtors.
Since the committee was created in 2012, it has spent over $1 million on electioneering activities to support Republican candidates and the 2013 reelection of conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Patience Roggensack.
In mid-January it reported spending $150,000 on direct mail and radio and digital advertising costs to support Republican Michael Kunesh in the 89th State Assembly district in northeastern Wisconsin. Kunesh was one of five Republicans vying for the seat left vacant when the incumbent, Republican John Nygren, resigned barely a month after begin reelected. Kunesh lost the primary to Elijah Behnke, the eventual winner of the election in April.
Last active election: 2020
This organization is registered with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission as an independent expenditure committee following the January 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC.