Activity by Conservative/Republican-Aligned Groups in Wisconsin


Wisconsin Voters Alliance   [see also CTCL press release]
Sep 10, 2020, 19:15 ET

Complaint Challenges Use Of Zuckerberg's $250 Mil By Cities To Impact Election Outcome

Wisconsin Voters Alliance Files Complaint Before State Elections Commission
    
MADISON, Wis., Sept. 10, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Wisconsin Voters Alliance filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Election Commission in response to millions of dollars being funneled by the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) to five Wisconsin cities which, past data show, vote overwhelmingly for Democrats. These grants are intentionally limited to these heavily Democratic areas for the purpose of boosting voter turnout there in a clear effort to sway the election statewide.

"We've seen government playing favorites in elections before," explained Phill Kline, Director of the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, representing the Wisconsin Voters Alliance. "Through much of last century, southern states made it difficult for blacks to vote and easy for white citizens to vote, promoting racism in the manner that they orchestrated their elections. Government targeting a demographic to increase turnout is the opposite side of the same coin as targeting a demographic to suppress the vote," Kline added.

CTCL is a left-leaning election activist group pushing major government voting initiatives in Democratic strongholds, which raises alarms about the integrity of the November election and demonstrates a present danger in allowing private groups to influence elections. CTCL boasts that its major funding sources include Google and Facebook, and the group just recently received a contribution of $250 million from billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife.

Cumulatively, CTCL has thus far granted $16.3 million to the five cities in Wisconsin and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which had cast over 82% of their over one million combined total votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016. President Trump won Wisconsin by 22,748 votes and Pennsylvania by 44,292 votes that year.

In Wisconsin, CTCL has granted a total of $6.3 million in municipal funding from private sources to the Cities of Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine. The grants were issued directly to the cities and not the Wisconsin Elections Commission, which is responsible for managing elections throughout the state. A plurality of the funds — about 40% — went to support both vote-by-mail and early voting efforts. Around $1 million went to "voter outreach and education efforts."

"This initiative by CTCL is clearly designed to provide a boost in registered voters, limited only to traditional leftist strongholds, in a critical swing state that is likely to determine the outcome of the presidential election on November 3, 2020," Kline said. "Allowing private monies to control state spending on voter turnout is an invitation to the state to engage in partisan politics in the operation of elections. This represents a present danger to favor one class of voters at the expense of others and attempt to pick winners and losers in the election this year," he concluded.

The Complaint alleges that the use of the funds violates Wisconsin law prohibiting the provision of monies to election officials to induce persons to vote or influence an election outcome.

The Wisconsin Voters Alliance is requesting that the Wisconsin Election Commission immediately prohibit the inappropriate use of the funds granted by CTCL to the five cities in the state and will reserve all legal options to ensure safe and fair elections throughout the State of Wisconsin.

Kline said the group plans to appeal any adverse Commission decision to the District Court and at that time will add claims that the spending of funds in this fashion violates the Elections Clause of the United States Constitution and is a violation of equal protection.

For more information on this and related issues, go to: got-freedom.org.


SOURCE Wisconsin Voters Alliance

Join us for CPAC Wisconsin!

With less than three months to go before our next presidential election, Democrats are scrambling to disparage, downplay, and mischaracterize our successful policies because they can’t justify their own. Biden may be on the ballot, but America is on the line.

Labeling us “deplorables” was the initial shot across the bow. Next, they took aim with the Russian collusion hoax and its duplicitous Ukrainian cousin. After that, they weaponized the Wuhan coronavirus.

Now they are ripping America apart in a final, desperate attempt to dismantle our democracy.

While Leftists burn resources in a futile mission to search-and-destroy, conservatives are implementing solutions to build our country up.

The fight between the Left and the Right is real. The battle between freedom and authoritarianism is playing out in state capitals, in Washington D.C., and in countries around the globe.

CPAC is an important tool enabling us to join in this fight wherever we find like-minded freedom-lovers willing to lay it all on the line to advance the noble cause of liberty-for-all.

So, we are taking CPAC on the road with the “America vs. Socialism CPAC Tour.”

We will hold “CPAC Wisconsin” on August 14th to ensure that the socialist, anti-American platform of the Democratic Party can not and will not win in November.

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Details
Date & Time
Fri, August 14, 2020
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM CDT
Location
The Automobile Gallery
400 South Adams Street
Green Bay, WI 54301



Heritage Action for America
Dec. 10, 2019

Project 2020: The Conservative Agenda for 2020 and Beyond

Project 2020 is a multi-layered, nationwide effort to grow the conservative movement and advocate for conservative policy in the areas where it matters most.

Heritage Action’s 2019 polling work has shown how we can win on the issues by focusing on culture, immigration, the future of work and education, and the economy. In these four policy areas, we beat the left if we stick to the issues. Heritage Action polling also shows Americans overwhelmingly agree with conservative policies in these areas: they believe immigration is the top issue facing the nation, the Democratic party is increasingly extreme, and capitalism is a superior system to socialism.

For the last decade, the left has grown increasingly radical on every policy issue, leaving ordinary Americans behind. Project 2020 will remind voters in strategic states that conservative policies work for them and their families, and it will build a conservative coalition that will shape the dialogue of the entire nation for years to come.

In 2020, Heritage Action is leading a major grassroots effort focused in four key states that are policy flashpoints: Wisconsin, Iowa, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. During his 2016 campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump showed that these crucial states are filled with communities ready to be welcomed into a conservative coalition. Heritage Action will build this coalition by recruiting volunteers in new communities and strengthening our existing 20,000-person army of Sentinels.

By building a conservative coalition in these states, Heritage Action will help ensure that conservative policies prevail in 2020. And, more importantly, we will create a movement to resist the radical policy of the left on local, state, and national levels for years to come.