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December 5, 2022
Spending by special interest groups in this fall’s legislative races in Wisconsin and for the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, and treasurer shattered the old record by 50 percent, a preliminary review by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign found.
November 4, 2022
The Republican candidate for secretary of state has spent nearly three times more in the race than the Democratic incumbent, Doug La Follette, for the year through most of October.
November 3, 2022
Candidate and smear group spending has already shattered the old record for spending in a Wisconsin governor’s race, topping $114.6 million, according to a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign preliminary review.
November 2, 2022
Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul raised nearly three times more than his GOP opponent, Eric Toney, in September and most of October.
November 1, 2022
Incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers raised nearly $12 million in September and most of October, including $5.2 million from the state Democratic Party.
November 1, 2022
GOP candidate for governor Tim Michels raised $8.8 million in September and most of October, including about $3.3 million from the state Republican Party and a little more than $2 million in loans and contributions from himself.
October 31, 2022
Outside groups that explicitly tell people who to vote for have spent more than $52.3 million in Wisconsin, a new record. Groups backing Republican candidates have spent more than three times more than Democratic groups with a week to go before the Nov. 8 elections.
October 26, 2022
Madison, WI - Ten pro-democracy groups and Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway are co-sponsoring a Vote Early Day press conference as part of National Vote Early Day with thousands of organizations across the nation this Friday, October 28.
October 17, 2022
Outside groups that sponsor electioneering activities that expressly tell people how to vote have already spent a record $36.7 million on legislative and statewide candidates with three weeks to go before the Nov. 8 elections. (This is for non-federal races. It does not include spending on the U.S. Senate race, for instance, or on any other Congressional races.)
October 10, 2022
Express advocacy groups favoring GOP governor candidate Tim Michels have been outspending those favoring incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers by more than three to one since the Aug. 9 primary.
Posted: October 3, 2022
Updated: October 11, 2022
As the Milwaukee Bucks season gets under way, and with the elections just five weeks away, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is running a radio ad featuring two Milwaukee Bucks stars, Jrue Holiday and Brook Lopez, urging citizens to vote. (Now with video.)
September 28, 2022
GOP candidate for governor Tim Michels raised $5.43 million between late July and the end of August, including more than $5 million in contributions and loans from his own pocket.
September 28, 2022
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers raised $4.57 million between late July and the end of August, including nearly $1.6 million in cash and in-kind contributions from the state Democratic Party.
September 20, 2022
Three dozen outside electioneering groups have spent or planned to spend at least $37.4 million in legislative and statewide races with seven weeks to go until Election Day. The vast majority of this money is flowing into the governor’s race.
September 8, 2022
Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein are the largest contributors to Wisconsin’s legislative campaign committees. They gave more than four times as much as anyone else, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign’s examination of the top 10 contributors to these committees between January 2016 and December 2021.
September 1, 2022
After a nine-year hiatus from trying to influence Wisconsin state elections, Club for Growth spent more than $3.5 million in the two weeks leading up to this year’s Aug. 9 primary to successfully oppose Republican Rebecca Kleefisch’s bid for governor.
August 15, 2022
Two national groups that raise and spend unlimited amounts to elect Republican and Democratic governors across the country raised nearly $2 million from Wisconsin contributors in 18 months.
August 11, 2022
The state GOP and two Republican legislative campaign committees (LCCs) accepted more than three times the corporate contributions that their Democratic counterparts received in the first half of 2022. And the total amount of corporate contributions was more than twice the amount during the comparable six-month period in 2020.
August 8, 2022
The state Democratic Party had $3.62 million in its campaign accounts as of July 25, about 29 times more than the $126,851 that the state GOP had in its regular state and segregated campaign coffers.
August 3, 2022
A Republican Assembly Representative running for secretary of state reported about eight times as much money on hand as the incumbent, Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette, as of July 25.
August 2, 2022
Legislative candidates and fundraising committees continued to accept contributions at a record clip, pulling in $7.47 million during the first six months of 2022.
August 1, 2022
(This profile updates information and figures in an earlier April 2016 feature about Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein.)
July 26, 2022
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the four GOP candidates vying to challenge him in November raised over half of their individual contributions from Wisconsin contributors.
July 25, 2022
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul’s reelection campaign raised twice as much as the three Republican candidates vying for his job combined during the first six months of 2022. Director Steven Spielberg, who gave Gov. Tony Evers’s campaign $20,000, also gave $20,000 to Kaul’s.
July 20, 2022
Testimony of Matt Rothschild, Executive Director, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Before the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules
Re: EmR 2209 relating to the correction of absentee ballot certificate envelopes (Wisconsin Elections Commission)