GOP Assembly, Senate campaign committees raise more than $7M in 2 months

Republican fundraising committees backing Wisconsin Senate and Assembly candidates raised more than $7.3 million over the past two months, according to new campaign finance reports. The vast majority came from two longtime Republican donors.

Between July 30 and Sept. 23, the Republican Assembly Campaign Committee, or RACC, brought in around $7.2 million, with just more than $2.5 million coming from Wisconsin billionaire Diane Hendricks. Hendricks owns ABC Supply, based in Beloit. The fundraising group got another $2 million from GOP megadonor Elizabeth Uihlein of Lake Bluff, Illinois. Uihlein and her husband co-founded packaging supply company Uline.

The RACC also received around $2.5 million in transfers from the campaigns of several GOP Assembly incumbents, including $100,000 each from Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester and Joint Finance Committee member Tony Kurtz, R-Wonewoc.

The RACC spent a total of around $5.3 million, including $600,000 in transfers to the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s main fundraising account.



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