$2 million checks: This year, out-of-state liberals dominated donations to Wisconsin political parties

BY PETER CAMERON, THE BADGER PROJECT

The ex-wife of a Silicon Valley super-investor. The governor of Illinois. George Soros.

Out-of-state millionaires and billionaires are pouring money into the two major Wisconsin political parties in 2020.

Huge donations from outside the state are becoming the norm in Wisconsin, where legal changes have allowed for ever-increasing political donations in recent years.

Following the 2014 U.S. Supreme Court case, McCutcheon vs. F.E.C., that deemed Wisconsin’s annual $10,000 limit on total political donations unconstitutional, the Republican-controlled legislature went even further in loosening campaign finance laws, including doubling the limit on direct donations to political candidates.

In 2018, the Wisconsin GOP benefited from the loosened restrictions.

This year, liberals flooded America’s Dairyland with cash….