Hijacking Campaign 2022 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2022
Posted: October 15, 2022
Updated: March 22, 2024
Power to the Polls WI is a newly formed Shorewood, Wisconsin based organization dedicated to protecting voting rights and operating in state elections as an unregistered committee. The organization's registered agent with the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions is Bruce Colburn, a long time labor organizer and a founder and officer with Souls to the Polls WI, a group committed to bolstering Black electoral power.
In mid-October, Power to the Poll WI first reported independent spending in the 2022 elections with nearly $9,500 to support incumbent Democrats Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul.
It would eventually spend nearly $400,000, all but $736 going to support of Evers.
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.