Hijacking Campaign 2022 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2022
Posted: October 21, 2022
Updated: March 22, 2024
This is an unregistered committee run by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), a Washington, D.C.-based union that represents public sector workers. This is the fifth different committee that the national AFSCME office has used to make independent expenditures in Wisconsin politics since 2010. Committees sponsored by the national union were involved in the 2012 fall and recall elections as well as the 2018 (as AFSCME People and simply AFSCME) and 2020 fall elections. While the AFSCME Working Family Fund is not registered with the state of Wisconsin, it is registered with the Federal Elections Commission.
Less than three weeks before the November 8 election, the committee first reported independent expenditures in the 2022 fall state elections, with more than $92,500 for mailers and online advertising to support Democratic incumbents Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul.
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.