Hijacking Campaign 2024 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2024
Posted: October 28, 2024
Updated: October 6, 2025
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. Between 2020 and 2023, it spent about $104,000 on outside electioneering activities in state-level elections in Wisconsin.
Although Blue Sky Waukesha was active in local spring elections earlier in 2004, it did not report any spending in the fall legislative elections until nine days before the November 5th election. The group reported spending over $24,500 for mailers to support Democratic candidates in the 8th Senate and three state assembly races – the 13th, 15th, and 82nd. Three of the districts featured Republican incumbents running in new districts after they were displaced by new legislative maps passed earlier in 2024, while in the fourth, the 13th Assembly, a Democratic representative was challenging the GOP incumbent after new maps placed them in the same district.
The committee later reported spending nearly aother $10,400 for online advertising to support Democrats in the four races mentioned above plus the 28th state senate and three more assembly contests, the 24th, 84th and 97th.
Only two of its favored candidates won election, Rep. Robyn Vining in the 13th Assembly and Jodi Habush Sinykin in the 8th State Senate.
Last active election: 2023
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.