Hijacking Campaign 2022 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2022
Posted: September 24, 2022
Updated: March 22, 2024
Based in Arlington, VA, American Principles Project PAC is sponsored by the American Principles Project, a think tank that advocates for socially conservative issues.
In late September the PAC first reported independent expenditures in the 2022 election when it spent nearly $166,000 on television ads to oppose the reelection of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Three weeks before the November 8 election, the organization reported spending about $28,300 for mailers in two open legislative districts, the 19th state senate and the 84th assembly.
Less than three weeks before the election, it reported spending over $14,000 for mailers in the same two legislative districts. A week later it reported spending $10,000 for text messages supporting the GOP candidates in those districts.
Eleven days before the election, the committee reported spending $4,500 for texts opposing Evers and yet another $4,500 for more such texts four days before the election.
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.