Hijacking Campaign 2021 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2021
Posted: February 9, 2021
Updated: July 30, 2021
This is a corporation sponsored by the Republican State Leadership Committee, a Virginia-based group that supports Republican legislative candidates in Wisconsin and across the country. Since 2010, the organization has spent more than an estimated $6 million on independent expenditures and phony issue ads in Wisconsin legislative and statewide elections.
Twelve days before the February 16th primary, the group reported spending $27,000 for mailers and radio ads to support Republican Rep. John Jagler in the special election primary for the 13th State Senate district. Jagler was one of three Republicans running for the seat left vacant when the incumbent, Republican Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the November 2020 elections.
Five days before the primary it reported spending about another $35,000 for mailers, texts and digital advertisements to support Jagler.
Jagler won the primary and defeated a Democrat and two Independents in the April 6th election.
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.