Out-of-state PACs not out-of-state money?
Excuse me, but there is something totally off kilter in this release from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign:
Democratic Governor Jim Doyle raised a record $415,113 from outside Wisconsin in 2005 and surpassed the $1 million mark in total out-of-state campaign contributions since 2002 when he was elected governor, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows.What about the special interest political action money Green transferred into his campaign? Depending upon whose count you use, it was somewhere between $500,000 and $800,000 of the $1.3-million he transferred in. And almost every dollar of it was from an out-of-state federal PAC.
The WDC review found Doyle has raised $1.15 million from out-of-state individuals in four years, from 2002 through 2005, and is only about $42,000 shy of raising more out-of-state contributions than former GOP Governor Tommy Thompson accepted during his last eight years in office – $1.19 million from 1993 through 2000 (see chart).
His Republican challenger, Mark Green, raised $117,000 in out-of-state funds since 2002, including $72,163 he accepted from 2002 through 2004 as a congressman and later transferred from his congressional campaign account to his state account to run for governor. Green’s largest annual out-of-state contributions since 2002 came last year – $44,837 – when he formally entered the race for governor.
Does out-of-state money only count if it's from people instead of PACs?
UPDATE: The goo-goos at Wisconsin Democracy Campaign want the Elections Board to make Green give back hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal PAC money he transferred in -- money from PACs that could not legally give to a campaign for governor. By the way, Green did finally divest himself today of the $30,000 in tainted Tom DeLay money he'd been sitting on, giving it to several Wisconsin charities.
2 Comments:
Do expenditures made by tribal nations count for anything you prick?
Let us amend SB1 - No indian money for candidates or independent expenditure groups.
That's not a very nice comment. Xout = Coward.
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