Here's Who's Supporting (and Spending Big for) the Candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court
Protasiewicz’s campaign has raised a substantial sum of money from donors both big and small. As a result, her campaign has booked more than $10 million in ads. In contrast, Kelly’s campaign has spent less than $500,000 on ads. However, his message is still getting out there.
Kelly’s campaign has been propped up by a coalition of anti-abortion groups, far-right billionaires, and corporate interests.
Wisconsin Family Action—an anti-abortion and anti-same sex marriage organization—announced this week it would spend $225,000 to help elect Kelly.
The anti-abortion political action committee (PAC) Women Speak Out, has already spent $550,000 supporting Kelly, with $2 million more on the way. The PAC is largely bankrolled by the Restoration PAC, which is primarily funded by billionaire Dick Uihlein.
But Women Speak Out also counts Leonard Leo as one of its benefactors. Leo, a conservative attorney and the former executive director of the Federalist Society, is one of the men most responsible for overturning Roe v. Wade.
He now runs a network of “dark money” groups that have spent more than $500 million as they seek to overhaul every aspect of American society, from abortion to education to business, in order to make them radically conservative. One of Leo’s groups, the Judicial Crisis Network, has funneled millions of dollars to Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, the anti-abortion group that operates the Women Speak Out PAC.
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