Tuesday, July 18, 2006

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.
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.
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.

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:

At 12:48 AM, Blogger XOut said...

Do expenditures made by tribal nations count for anything you prick?

Let us amend SB1 - No indian money for candidates or independent expenditure groups.

 
At 11:05 AM, Blogger Other Side said...

That's not a very nice comment. Xout = Coward.

 

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