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December 21, 2020
Bowing to pressure from Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), Republican lawmakers have neutered a proposed state rule to prevent so-called “forever chemicals” linked to cancer and other health problems from contaminating drinking water.
December 10, 2020
Letter from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign urging the chairs of the Wisonsin State Senate and State Assembly committees on elections to stand up for democracy during the December 11th joint informational hearing (speakers by invitation only) on the 2020 presidential election.
November 20, 2020
Letter from the Wisconsin Democracy's Campaign executive director opposing The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty's petition requesting that legal challenges to redistricting bypass federal courts and go directly to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
November 16, 2020
Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit brought by a major campaign donor challenging the governor’s authority to issue successive public health orders amid the covid-19 pandemic.
November 12, 2020
More than two dozen special interest groups doled out nearly $9.9 million on outside electioneering activities in this fall’s legislative elections, a preliminary review by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign found.
November 3, 2020
The major state parties and four legislative fundraising committees raised $3.3 million from contributions of $1,000 or more in the past two weeks with Democrats raising more than twice as much as Republicans.
November 3, 2020
Spending on legislative races by outside electioneering groups totaled $8.3 million as of Tuesday morning and Democratic groups have spent nearly twice as much as GOP groups.
November 2, 2020
Outside election spending on legislative races topped $8.2 million as of Monday morning as Democratic groups continued to spend far more than Republican groups.
October 30, 2020
Democratic electioneering group spending continued to soar above GOP group spending in the November legislative elections as total spending neared $8 million as of Friday morning.
October 26, 2020
Outside election spending has skyrocketed in the past week against GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in the wake of an investigative report that portrayed the Foxconn project he helped spearhead as a boondoggle.
October 21, 2020
Democratic groups are swamping GOP groups in outside spending on the November legislative elections as total spending topped $6 million as of Wednesday morning.
October 16, 2020
Outside electioneering groups have spent more than $4.7 million as of Friday morning in this fall’s legislative races and groups backing Democratic candidates have sharply outspent their Republican counterparts.
October 9, 2020
Spending totaled about $3.1 million and was dead even as of Friday morning between Democratic and GOP outside electioneering groups in this fall’s legislative races, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
October 2, 2020
GOP groups spent slightly more than Democratic groups as outside election spending in this fall’s legislative races neared $2.3 million as of Friday morning, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
September 30, 2020
Democratic legislative candidates raised about $1.9 million more than Republican candidates during the first eight months of the year, but GOP candidates had sharply more money in their campaign accounts two months before the November elections, recent campaign finance reports show.
September 15, 2020
About a dozen outside electioneering groups have spent nearly $613,000 so far on the November legislative races, according to a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign tally.
August 28, 2020
About 300 Wisconsin contributors gave $2.7 million during the first six months of 2020 to unregulated outside electioneering groups, and more than two-thirds of it went to Democratic-leaning groups.
August 26, 2020
About 40 shadowy electioneering groups that can raise and spend unlimited amounts to influence state and federal elections accepted $2.7 million from Wisconsin contributors in the first half of 2020, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
August 21, 2020
Special interest political action committees (PACs), corporations, and candidate and party committees contributed $5.2 million to legislative and statewide officeholders during the first six months of 2020, according to their campaign finance reports.
August 17, 2020
Outside electioneering groups spent nearly $300,000 on outside electioneering activities in legislative primary contests, according to a preliminary review by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
August 4, 2020
The state GOP and two Republican legislative campaign committees collected three times more in corporate contributions than their Democratic counterparts during the first half of 2020.
July 28, 2020
As millions lost jobs and the economy tanked, wealthy special interests and their campaign contributors appeared to be immune from the coronavirus.
July 27, 2020
Four legislative campaign committees (LCCs) that milk special interests for campaign contributions to spend on elections raised and banked record cash during the first six months of 2020.
July 20, 2020
The state Democratic Party raised $7.5 million from late March through June – 10 times more than the state Republican Party.
Posted: July 16, 2020
Updated: April 19, 2021*
Candidates and outside special interest groups spent a record-shattering $10 million in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race last April, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.