Hijacking Campaign 2021 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2021
Posted: March 18, 2021
Updated: July 30, 2021
This independent expenditure committee created by Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin in 2010 makes independent expenditures on behalf of Democratic candidates for statewide office and the legislature in Wisconsin. Between 2010 and 2020 this committee spent nearly $1.6 million in Wisconsin state elections.
Less than three weeks before the April 6 election, it first reported spending $10,260 for online ads and text messages supporting Pecatonica Area School district administrator Jill Underly for state school superintendent. Underly defeated educational consultant Deborah Kerr in the April election. The office's incumbent, Carolyn Stanford Taylor, appointed to fill the position in January 2019 by Democratic Governor Tony Evers, did not seekk election.
By the day of the election Planned Parentood reported spending nearly an additional $6,400 for robocalls, online advertising and text messages.
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.