Hijacking Campaign 2023 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2023
Posted: March 27, 2023
Updated: March 25, 2024
Spring: Oath • Spending
Special: Oath • Spending
This is a committee used by the rightwing American Majority Action in Virginia to make independent expenditures in Wisconsin legislative and statewide elections. American Majority was created in 2010 to recruit and support Republican and conservative candidates in state and local races throughout the country.
Supreme Court (Spring)
In late March, the group spent about $12,700 on phone calls, texts, campaign staff costs and literature to support former Justice Daniel Kelly’s election to the high court on April 4. Kelly, a conservative who was appointed to the court in 2016 to fill a vacancy but lost a 2020 election to keep the seat, faced Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal. The winner of the race would determine the ideological balance of the court as the winner would replace a member of the court's then 4-3 conservative majority.
Protasiewicz won the election and assumed her seat in August 2023.
After filing its initial spending report, the group reported about another $181,000 in the election.
Special
In addition to the regular April spring elections in 2023, there was a special election to choose a new state senator for suburban Milwaukee’s 8th State Senate District. Democrat Jody Habush Sinykin faced Republican Rep. Dan Knodl, of Germantown, on April 4 to replace long time GOP Sen. Alberta Darling, of River Hills, who retired in December 2022.
Knodl narrowly won the election.
In late March, American Majority first spent about $260 for literature and campaign staff to support Knodl race. Subsequently the group spent about an additional $1,040 to support Knod's campaign.
Last active election: 2022
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.