Dark money funding group, Americans 4 Security, tied to county GOP, Stronger Wisconsin, Wisconsinites for Liberty and US Congress race in Oklahoma
A dark money organization is when you can’t trace who the money came from. It’s laundered from one shell organization to another to hide the identity of the donors.
You can, however, find the treasurer and sometimes other agents for an organization on their registration with the Wisconsin Campaign Finance Information System (CFIS) or the Federal Election Commission (FEC). When dark money mailers started to pelt Wisconsin homes from Stronger Wisconsin covered in absolute lies and from an unauthorized mailing address it was time to dig deeper.
I was able to trace the entire $450,000 donated to Stronger Wisconsin back to an organization called Americans 4 Security. It is a registered non-profit.
Take note of the names of the registered officers, they are all longtime Republican political operatives. Bad enough that these Republicans are the officers for a group spending over $330,000 in attack ads against good conservative Republicans in a Republican primary, but it gets worse. Americans 4 Security is also the non-profit (NGO) that put $269,000 into Wisconsinites for Liberty who used about $240,000 of that to protect Wisconsin Speaker Robin Vos.
Americans 4 Security also donated $12,000 to Waukesha County Republican Party. Why did a county party receive that kind of money, what did they use it for? We should be able to get an idea of where that money went following their next finance reports.
If you have been able to follow this far a Wisconsin NGO gave money to two Republican groups and a Wisconsin GOP county party which was spent attacking conservative Republican candidates. You know because that’s what the Republican oligarchy has to do to keep winning.
On top of that the Wisconsin NGO, Americans 4 Security spent almost $3 MILLION on attack ads against conservative Republican Paul Bondar in OKLAHOMA, who was running against lifetime politician and chair of the powerful House Appropriations Committee. You know the powerful guy who controls the purse strings. Why does a Wisconsin NGO have interest in an Oklahoma congressional race, let alone to the tune of close to $3 MILLION dollars. Who are these Republicans that hate the democratic process of primaries so much they feel the need to lie, interfere, manipulate and meddle in that outcome? So much for free and fair elections.
If the Waukesha County Republican Partyis not complicit and really wants to distance themselves from this dark money Republican election interference group I would suggest they return the $12,000 immediately and put out a press release stating as much.
The finger needs to be pointed directly at the Republican establishment oligarchy as we call out their gaslighting and lies. It absolutely cannot be tolerated any longer. The great divide in the Republican Party is coming straight from those in power and influence. Rather than use it for good….well hopefully you get the picture.
Keep digging! Appreciate your insights.