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August 8, 2018
About half of the largest individual contributions to the major party attorney general candidates in July were from lawyers and others outside of Wisconsin, newly filed campaign finance reports show.
August 7, 2018
Top executives of a papermaker that was recently awarded $60 million in state welfare for a construction project have contributed more than $17,000 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaigns.
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign opposes the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census.
Posted: August 3, 2018
August 3, 2018
The state Democratic and Republican parties raised nearly $4.9 million combined during the first six months of 2018, with the GOP sharply outraising Democrats. The Republican Party of Wisconsin also had five times as much money on hand as its Democratic counterpart.
August 2, 2018
The four legislative campaign committees in Wisconsin are hauling in money at a record clip, with the two Republican ones far outdistancing their Democratic counterparts, according to a review by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
August 1, 2018
(An updated version of this profile was published in April 2022.)
This is a relatively new Washington, D.C. group that supports Democratic candidates for federal and state offices using a Super-PAC to make disclosed independent expenditures.
July 30, 2018
Nearly four dozen special interest groups that raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to hijack state and federal elections received a record $3.6 million from Wisconsin contributors during the first half of 2018, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
July 25, 2018
Owners and employees from a third of the three dozen companies that were awarded contracts by Foxconn on Tuesday have contributed about $68,000 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaigns.
July 24, 2018
An outside electioneering group that helps elect Republican governors in Wisconsin and throughout the country received nearly $1.9 million from Wisconsin contributors during the first six months of 2018.
July 20, 2018
Candidates in last spring’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race and the outside electioneering groups that praised or smeared them spent more than $5.5 million, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
July 19, 2018
Incumbent GOP Attorney General Brad Schimel and his Democratic challenger, Joshua Kaul, raised a total of nearly $1.3 million in the first half of 2018.
July 17, 2018
Republican Gov. Scott Walker met twice in 2015 with a Russian agent posing as a gun rights activist. The woman, Maria Butina, was arrested Sunday as being part of a plot by Russia to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.
July 17, 2018
Republican Gov. Scott Walker raised more than double of all of the eight remaining Democratic candidates for governor combined during the first six months of 2018.
July 16, 2018
Republican Gov. Scott Walker accepted a $2,700 federal campaign contribution from the founder of a Texas investment firm that recently agreed to pay $500,000 to settle pay-to-play claims by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
July 12, 2018
Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s job creation agency has written off a $1.1 million state loan to a De Pere businessman accused of defrauding the agency. The individual, Ron Van Den Heuvel, was once a generous contributor to GOP legislative and statewide candidates.
July 3, 2018
The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservative majority accepted more than $37,000 in campaign contributions from health care, insurance and business groups they sided with in a recent medical malpractice case.
July 2, 2018
This is a new group that advocates redistricting reform and supports Democratic candidates for state and federal offices throughout the country. In its first six months of outside spending on Wisconsin legislative and statewide elections, three of the four candidates backed by the committee won their races.
June 27, 2018
GOP President Donald Trump was scheduled to headline a Republican Party fundraiser on Thursday before joining Gov. Scott Walker to break ground for Foxconn’s proposed manufacturing plant in Racine County.
June 27, 2018
Owners and employees from six of eight companies chosen by Foxconn to construct a $14 million building at its future Racine County manufacturing plant contributed nearly $180,000 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaigns.
June 26, 2018
Here’s a look at the campaign contributions by Harley-Davidson and Sartori Foods employees to legislative and statewide candidates in Wisconsin.
June 22, 2018
Wisconsin candidates may use campaign contributions to pay for child care when they are campaigning, the Wisconsin Ethics Commission says.
June 22, 2018
1. Are you for banning gerrymandering in Wisconsin? In other words, do you back the Iowa model of independent, nonpartisan, and transparent map drawing by career civil servants – not the party in power?
2. Are you in favor of rewriting our campaign finance law to ban corporations, unions, and other groups from giving directly to political parties and legislative campaign committees?
June 20, 2018
Owners and employees of nine of the 15 companies picked by the state to rebuild a portion of Interstate 94 have contributed about $221,200 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaigns.
June 18, 2018
Twenty special interests groups spent an estimated $4.1 million so far this year on a statewide spring election and three legislative special elections.
June 13, 2018
Owners and employees from about two dozen companies that received corporate welfare from the state in 2017 have contributed more than $800,000 to Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign.