Wisconsin-Report

election through Tuesday, April 5, 2011. Other top groups spent between $53,200 and $1,365,340. [Brennan Center for Justice,
4/5/11]
Citizens For A Strong America Provided Over 90 Percent Of Wisconsin Family Action’s 2011 Grants, Most Of Which
They Then Spent On Wisconsin Elections. According to the Center for Media and Democracy, “Citizens for a Strong
America, which was bankrolled almost entirely by Wisconsin Club for Growth cash, in turn funneled $916,045 to Wisconsin
Family Action in 2011, which was over 90 percent of the $1,009,616 in grants that the anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage group
received that year. The group spent an estimated $850,000 on the Senate recall campaigns that year, and an additional
undisclosed amount on the Prosser-Kloppenburg race.” [Center for Media and Democracy, 11/18/13]
• Wisconsin Family Action Was Subpoenaed In The John Doe Investigation. According to the Wall Street
Journal, “In recent weeks, special prosecutor Francis Schmitz has hit dozens of conservative groups with subpoenas
demanding documents related to the 2011 and 2012 campaigns to recall Governor Walker and state legislative leaders.
Copies of two subpoenas we've seen demand ‘all memoranda, email . . . correspondence, and communications’ both
internally and between the subpoena target and some 29 conservative groups, including Wisconsin and national
nonprofits, political vendors and party committees. The groups include the League of American Voters, Wisconsin
Family Action, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Americans for Prosperity—Wisconsin, American Crossroads,
the Republican Governors Association, Friends of Scott Walker and the Republican Party of Wisconsin.” [Wall Street
Journal, 11/18/13]
Citizens For A Strong America Gave Almost $350,000 To Wisconsin Right To Life Which Was 14 Percent Of The
Latter’s Revenue. According to the Capital Times, “Citizens for a Strong America then directed a large portion of that
money to socially conservative organizations. Most notably, it gave $916,000 to Wisconsin Family Action, a group that
stridently opposes gay marriage and abortion, and $347,582 to the anti-abortion Wisconsin Right to Life. Those contributions
accounted for more than 90 percent of Family Action's revenue that year and roughly 14 percent of the revenue for Wisconsin
Right to Life.” [The Capital Times, 1/15/14]
• Wisconsin Right To Life “Enabled Its Political Action Committee Arm” To Support Walker In The Recall
Election. According to RH Reality Check, “In less than three weeks, a monumental election will be held in
Wisconsin, where for the first time the governor could potentially be recalled and replaced before his official term in
office is ended. But anti-choice activists in the state are determined that doesn’t happen. To defend Republican
Governor Scott Walker, anti-choice group Wisconsin Right for Life has enabled its political action committee arm,
dedicating web pages, videos and candidate bios on behalf of Walker’s candidacy.” [RH Reality Check, 5/18/12]
• Wisconsin Right To Life Email: Scott Walker’s Recall Success And Election Of GOP Majorities In State A
“Silver Lining” In The 2012 Elections. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Abortion opponents were
disappointed by President Barack Obama's reelection and the ability of Democrats to retain control of the U.S.
Senate. But Wisconsin Right to Life noted in an email to supporters that the election also put all of Wisconsin's state
government in the hands of Republicans. ‘The silver lining in the November 6 elections is that Wisconsin has a rightto-life
governor, Scott Walker, and strong right-to-life majorities in both houses of the Legislature!’ the group's email
newsletter said.” [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11/24/12]
• Wisconsin Right To Life Hoped To Further Wisconsin’s Abortion Restrictions. According to the Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel, “The state's largest anti-abortion group sees opportunities to place further regulations on abortion,
including requiring women seeking the procedure to view an ultrasound of her fetus. Wisconsin Right to Life is also
proposing banning abortions that would cause pain to the fetus, barring abortions that are sought based on the sex of
the fetus and prohibiting the ability of state employees to use their state health care plans to access abortions.”
[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11/24/12]
WISCONSIN CLUB FOR GROWTH WAS LED BY PROMINENT KOCH
OPERATIVE ERIC O’KEEFE
Eric O’Keefe Headed The Wisconsin Club For Growth. According to the Wall Street Journal, “Mr. O’Keefe ran many of
his issue-oriented campaigns from his adopted home of Wisconsin (he was born in Michigan), where he heads the Wisconsin
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