Hijacking Campaign 2022 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Offices | Campaign 2022
Posted: October 6, 2022
Updated: March 22, 2024
Republican Accountability PAC is a Washington, DC based committee formed by disenchanted Republicans and conservatives to oppose anti-democracy GOP candidates nationwide. Aside from Wisconsin, the group's website indicates it was also involved in gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Georgia.
Towards the end of the first week of October, the committee first reported spending over $480,000 on television ads opposing Republican Tim Michels for governor. Michels was challenging Democratic incumbent Gov. Tony Evers. The ads - here and here - feature people who claimed to be former Republicans saying that Michels is too extreme to be governor of Wisconsin.
Over the course of the month it reported spending over another half a million dollars for online advertisements opposing Michels.
A week before the election, two ads by the group appeared - here and here - that featured people who claim to be Republicans criticizing election deniers as a threat to democracy.
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.