Hijacking Campaign 2023 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2023
Posted: March 31, 2023
Updated: March 26, 2024
This federal political action committee (PAC) is used by the National Rifle Association (NRA), the nation’s largest and most controversial pro-gun group, to make independent expenditures that generally support Republican and conservative candidates in Wisconsin state elections.
Between 2010 and 2022, the NRA spent more than $5 million on issue ads and independent expenditures placing it among the top special interest groups in spending on legislative and statewide races.
In late March 2023, the group reported spending nearly $38,000 on texting to support conservative Daniel Kelly in the April 4 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Kelly, a former justice who was appointed to the court in 2016 but voted off the court in 2020, lost the election to Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz, the liberal candidate in the race.
When Protasiewcz assumed her seat on the court the following August, she brought the official nonpartisan court's 4-3 conservative majority to an end.
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.