Hijacking Campaign 2023 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2023
Posted: April 4, 2023
Updated: March 25, 2024
This unregistered independent expenditure committee is sponsored by Emerging Voters Inc., a Georgia-based group that wants to increase voting in the Asian American Pacific Island community.
Federal Election Commission records show the committee raised about $108,100 and spent nearly $63,000 on independent expenditures around the country in 2022.
Shortly before the April 4 spring election in Wisconsin, the committee spent just over $1,800 on Facebook videos to support Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz’s bid for an open Wisconsin Supreme Court seat. It subsequently spent another $1,850 for advertising campaign to support Protasiewicz.
Protasiewicz, a liberal, faced former Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly, a conservative who was appointed to the court in 2016 to fill a vacancy but lost a 2020 election to keep the seat.
The winner would determine the ideological balance of the court, controlled 4-3, at the time of the election, by conservatives, because the retiring justice was a conservative.
Protasiewicz won the election.
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.