Hijacking Campaign 2018 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2018
Posted: October 1, 2018
Updated: June 17, 2021
This federal SuperPAC started operating in Wisconsin as an unregistered political committee. It's part of a group called NextGen America, an environmental advocacy organization founded by San Francisco billionaire and hedge fund manager Tom Steyer. Steyer and his group support Democratic candidates.
Steyer announced earlier he would spend $30 million on a nationwide get-out-the-vote effort targeting young adults, as well as $20 million on television ads calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
The committee filed paperwork with the state in late September showing it spent about $167,300 on online advertising to support Democratic candidate for governor Tony Evers. Evers defeated two-term incumbent GOP Gov. Scott Walker in the November election.
Another organization founded by Steyer, For Our Future, was active in Wisconsin's 2018 elections.
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.