Hijacking Campaign 2022 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2022
Posted: September 27, 2022
Updated: March 25, 2024
This is an unregistered political committee run by the Milwaukee-based Voces de la Frontera, an immigrant rights group that provides legal and employment services and citizenship and language training to immigrant and low-wage workers.
Voces first made indpendent expenditures in the 2022 fall election in the preceding March, when it spent about $270 for yard signs to support Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers.
The group next made independent expenditurs towards the end of September when it reported spending about $560 to support all the Democratic candidates for state constitutional office plus the Democratic incumbent in Wisconsin State Senate District 31. Three days later it reported spending nearly $20,000 on radio ads to support Evers.
By the end of the first week in October, Voces reported its most substantial campaign expenditure yet when it reported spending $260,000, mostly for campaign staff, in support of the previously mentioned candidates.
Four weeks before the Nov. 8 election, the committee reported $3,500 for radio ads to back Evers and, about a week later, another $1,400 to support all the Democratic constitutional candidates.
Two weeks before the election, Voces reported spending over $40,000 for mailers, online and radio advertising to support all Democratic constitutional office candidates as well as a couple of Democratic legislative incumbents, Jeff Smith in the 31st State Senate and Kristina Shelton in the 90th Assembly.
Twelve days before the election, it reported spending about another $1,500 for emails and brochures to support the Democratic slate for state constitutional offices.
In the last week of the campaign, Voces reported spending over another $126,000 for canvassing, radio and online adveristing.
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.