Hijacking Campaign 2022 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2022
Posted: August 5, 2022
Updated: March 22, 2024
This new committee is sponsored by the Milwaukee based Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC), an organization that works to advance the interests of the Black community in Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
During the primaries, BLOC PAC reported spending nearly $12,000 on brochures to support candidates in four Democratic primaries: Sara Rodriguez for lieutenant governor, Angelito Tenorio for state treasurer, challenger Alexia Sabor for secretary of state, and Darrin Madison in the 10th assembly district in Milwaukee. With the exception of secretary of state, currently held by Democrat Douglas La Follette, the incumbent is not seeking reelection to those offices. Two of the four supported by BLOC PAC, Madison and Rodriguez, won nomination to their respective offices.
At the end of the first week in October, the organization reported spending nearly $29,000 on brochures and campaign staff to support Demcoratic incumbents Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul, as well as the new Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor Sara Rodriguez.
By the time of the election BLOC PAC had reported spending an nearly an additional $101,000 to support Evers, Kaul, and Rodriguez.
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.