Money & Politics Column
Cheeseheads frugal in presidential race
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Wisconsin has 1.8 percent of the nation’s population, but accounts for just .8 percent of the nearly $1.2 billion that has flowed to presidential contenders.
Open Secrets
Baldwin-Thompson Senate race sets new spending record, led by outside groups
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Already these expenditures by outside groups, coupled with prodigious spending by the candidates, make this the most expensive U.S. Senate race in Wisconsin history.
Campaign Finance
Cash from Wisconsin rocked Pennsylvania governor’s race
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At a campaign stop near Philadelphia early in his 2010 bid for governor, Republican Tom Corbett announced, “We’ve got to raise money,” calling this his campaign’s “No. 1” priority. That same July day, a $1.5 million contribution arrived — from Wisconsin. Barry Kauffman, executive director of Common Cause Pennsylvania, calls this well-traveled donation a prime example of “an elaborate money-laundering scheme” used by the RGA with success in a number of races for governor in 2010 — one that is legal.
Tommy Thompson
Tommy’s rich, but not a lobbyist
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If words matter, and they ought to, “lobbyist” is not the right one to apply to Tommy Thompson.