Hijacking Campaign 2023 | Independent Expenditures | Issue Ads | Candidates | Campaign 2023
Posted: March 25, 2023
Updated: March 26, 2024
This is a political action committee (PAC) used by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation to make independent expenditures and direct contributions to support legislative and statewide candidates, overwhelmingly Republican ones. The federation is one of the state’s largest and most influential agricultural lobbying and advocacy groups.
Although the Wisconsin State Supreme Court is officially non-partisan, conservatives enjoyed a 4-3 majority at the time of the 2023 election, a majority at risk with the retirement of conservative Justice Patience Roggensack.
Four candidates initially sought the vacant seat but the nonpartisan Feb. 21 primary reduced the field to two: Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal, and former Wisconsin State Supreme Court Judge Dan Kelly, a conservative.
Protasiewicz defeated Kelly in the April 4 election and joined the high court the following August, giving the court a new 4-3 liberal majority.
Less than two weeks before the election, Volunteers reported spending $2,400 for postcards supporting Kelly.
Last active election: 2022