March 5, 2007
Madison - State Supreme Court Candidate Annette Ziegler violated state campaign finance law by accepting more than $10,000 from an individual contributor in an election cycle, according to records reviewed by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
February 21, 2007
Madison - Special interest groups spent $19 million on mostly negative broadcast advertising, mailings and other electioneering activities in the 2006 races for statewide office and the legislature – three times more than what they spent in 2002 and 11 times more than in the 1998 elections, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.
February 20, 2007
New York – Today, the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law released a new report finding that Wisconsin’s campaign finance system is broken and badly in need of reform.
February 8, 2007
Madison - Candidates and outside special interests spent $8.32 million in the 2006 attorney general race – five times more than the $1.65 million spent during the last race in 2002, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.
February 6, 2007
Madison - Candidates and special interests spent $32.3 million on the 2006 governor’s race where surges of vicious and deceptive advertising again hijacked a meaningful discussion of the issues that concern voters, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.
Posted: January 30, 2007
Updated: February 28, 2007
The ethics enforcement reform bill approved by both houses of the Legislature today creating a new politically independent Government Accountability Board is a significant improvement over the outdated and ineffective system of enforcement of ethical standards that the new oversight and enforcement agency will replace.
January 16, 2007
(Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Testimony on January 2007 Special Session Assembly Bill 1)
January 11, 2007
We applaud the effort that has been made by the governor and legislative leaders to negotiate a bipartisan agreement on much-needed ethics enforcement reform legislation.