Hijacking Campaign 2022 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2022
Posted: September 17, 2022
Updated: March 22, 2024
This is an unregistered committee controlled by the Washington D.C.-based Service Employees International Union - SEIU. This particular SEIU committee - there have been several over the years - was first active in Wisconsin with the fall 2018 elections. Between 2018 and 2020 it spent over a reported $1.7 million to support Democrats in partisan elections as well as "liberal" candidates for the officially non-partisan Wisconsin State Supreme Court.
It first reported independent expenditures in the fall 2022 elections in mid-September with $10,250 for online advertising to support Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers. In mid-October the committee reported spending $35,000 on radio ads to support Evers.
It later spent nearly another $4,400 for online advertising, phone calls and texts to support Evers.
Another SEIU sponsored committee - SEIU Wisconsin State Council Independent Expenditure Committee - has also reported spending in the 2022 elections.
Last active election: 2020
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.