December 15, 2010
Madison – Republican Governor-elect Scott Walker accepted $10,000 in campaign contributions from a mining company owner and one of his executives around the time the company reportedly contacted Walker about developing an open-pit iron ore mine, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
December 10, 2010
Down is up. Backward is forward. The loss of $810 million in federal funds and thousands of jobs is a victory for the state of Wisconsin.
November 22, 2010
Madison – Republican Governor-elect Scott Walker’s idea to hold parties for retirees in Sun Belt states and pitch tax cuts to lure them back to Wisconsin may be an effort to reward and expand his biggest donor base which gave him nearly $600,000 since January 2009, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.
November 15, 2010
Madison – As recently as August, newly elected Governor Scott Walker said he opposed toll roads. Now he supports them. Walker used to like trains. Now he’s against them, petitioning the federal government to allow Wisconsin to use over $800 million earmarked for high-speed rail for “crumbling” roads and bridges instead.
September 28, 2010
Madison – Legislative candidates raised a record $1.9 million in July and August and held $5.34 million in their campaign accounts going into the primary elections where the biggest spender won two of every three races, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review shows.
September 22, 2010
Madison – More than 300 lawyers, manufacturers, builders, bankers and other special interests each made contributions to both candidates for governor – Republican Scott Walker and Democrat Tom Barrett – totaling nearly $450,000 between July 2009 and June 2010, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.
September 16, 2010
August 24, 2010
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The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Education Fund today released the responses of statewide candidates and legislative hopefuls to six questions on democracy reform issues the three groups posed to all candidates.
August 17, 2010
Madison – Wisconsin contributors gave a record $1.34 million in the first half of 2010 to special interest groups that secretly raise and spend unlimited amounts to smear state and federal candidates with negative advertising and mailings at election time, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
August 5, 2010
Thank you for extending an invitation to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign to provide a citizen perspective on judicial discipline. Over the years, the Democracy Campaign has filed numerous complaints with the state Government Accountability Board and its predecessor agencies – the Elections Board and Ethics Board – against both major political parties in Wisconsin as well as elected officials and candidates from both parties. Those complaints have dealt with violations of various campaign finance laws and the state ethics code, and many resulted in fines or other penalties.
August 3, 2010
Madison – Legislative candidates and their fundraising committees accepted about $3.5 million in campaign contributions in the first half of 2010 – a record in a general election year and more than double what they raised just eight years ago, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.
August 2, 2010
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign issued the following statement in response to a lawsuit filed in federal court by the Wisconsin Club for Growth and One Wisconsin Now seeking to stop implementation of new rules approved by the state Government Accountability Board and reviewed by the Legislature closing the “issue ad” loophole special interest groups have long exploited to avoid disclosing to the public their electioneering activities:
July 22, 2010
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The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Education Fund, Common Cause in Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign are calling on candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General and state legislature (Assembly and Senate) to state their positions on issues that are central to honest, accountable government.
Posted: July 14, 2010
Updated: July 23, 2010
Statistics concerning candidates running for the Wisconsin State Legislature in fall 2010.
June 16, 2010
Madison – Legislators rely more on far-off, wealthy special interests to fund their election campaigns than on the people who can vote for them, according to a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis that found legislators accepted $2 of every $3 from contributors outside their districts in 2009.
May 26, 2010
Madison - Seventy individuals and couples gave $874,161 or 13 percent of the total large individual contributions in 2009 and they invested much of it in the governor and statewide candidates in the upcoming 2010 general election, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.
May 10, 2010
Madison - The cost of tougher penalties and treatment programs in a new drunken driving law effective in July is not paid for because the legislature refused to increase liquor or beer taxes opposed by the alcohol industry – one of the largest special interest contributors to legislative campaigns, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.
April 28, 2010
Madison - Eleven contributors to candidates for statewide office and the legislature exceeded the annual $10,000 limit on individual contributions in 2009, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review shows.
March 31, 2010
Madison - Seventeen legislators who once supported removing the governor’s authority to appoint Department of Natural Resources secretaries but recently supported the governor’s veto of a bill to do that received $703,743 since 2005 from special interests who oppose the change, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review shows.
March 25, 2010
Madison - Payday lenders contributed nearly $75,000 to state policymakers and candidates in 2009 – a record in a non-election year – including $65,440 to legislators to quash proposals to regulate the industry, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review shows.
March 23, 2010
The state Government Accountability Board today struck a long overdue and decisive blow for the public’s right to know and for accountability in election advertising with its unanimous approval of new rules closing the “issue ad” loophole special interest groups have long exploited to avoid disclosure of election-related activity and operate outside Wisconsin’s campaign finance laws.
March 8, 2010
Madison - Wisconsin contributors doled out a record $1.53 million in 2009 to special interest groups that often pollute state and federal elections with negative advertising, mailings and other outside electioneering activities, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review shows.
March 1, 2010
Madison - An Assembly fundraising committee used to tap powerful special interests for campaign cash accepted nearly $14,000 in the last half of 2009 from payday lenders and some of their lobbyists as legislation stalled to limit the industry’s high lending rates, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review of campaign finance reports filed by the four leadership-controlled campaign committees shows.
February 17, 2010
Madison - Legislators accepted $2.91 million in campaign contributions in 2009, the lowest since 2003 and a dip due to an Assembly fundraising ban during the first six months of the year when the legislature considered the 2009-11 state budget, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.
Posted: February 4, 2010
Updated: February 12, 2010
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