Anyone know anything about Greater Wisconsin Political Fund?

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3. Re: Greater Wisconsin Committee...

The Greater Wisconsin Committee doesn't talk much about what it does. It has no website and apparently no general membership recruitment. A memo from the GWC posted at wispolitics.com and dated May 1, 2006, describes the group as tax-exempt, independent and issue-oriented, with a mission to "educate and mobilize Wisconsin residents on important economic, health, social and environmental issues."

The group has listed Democratic political kingmaker and blogger Bill Christofferson as its "general media consultant." Michelle McGrorty, GWC executive director, didn't return a call seeking updated information. A former fund-raiser for convicted state Sen. Chuck Chvala, McGrorty testified under immunity about illegal fund-raising activities during the state Capitol caucus investigation.

GWC runs a political action committee that has made some independent expenditures. But most of its money is spent on issue ads — an estimated $4.6 million in 2006, including attacks on Van Hollen, gubernatorial challenger Mark Green, and a handful of GOP legislative candidates. In 2007, it spent an estimated $400,000 on issue ads benefiting Linda Clifford.

The source of most of that cash remains undisclosed, but McCabe's group traced $1.1 million in 2005 and 2006 to the Democratic Governors Association, another $800,000 to the Democratic Attorney Generals Association, and some $1.7 million to unions, wealthy individuals and corporations.