Hijacking Campaign 2023 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2023
Posted: April 12, 2023
Updated: October 28, 2024
Spring: Oath • Spending
Special: Oath • Spending
Organized in 2019, Blue Sky Waukesha, Inc. is a liberal leaning group based, as its name implies, in Waukesha County. It first made independent expenditures in the 2020 Wisconsin State Supreme Court election.
Supreme Court (Spring)
A week after the April 4 Wisconsin State Supreme Court election, Blue Sky Waukesha reported it had spent just over $27,300 for postcards, radio and digital ads to support Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz for an open ten-year seat on the high court.
Protasiewicz, the liberal in the race, defeated former Wisconsin State Supreme Court Daniel Kelly, who was originally appointed to that post by former GOP Gov. Scott Walker, in the election. When she assumed her seat in August 2023, conservatives lost their 4-3 majority on the court.
Special
A special election was held concurrently with the Wisconsin State Supreme Court 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.
Knodl narrowly won the election.
A week later Blue Sky Waukesha reported it had spent nearly $1,100 for postcards to support Habush Sinykin.
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.