More than $2 million injected into 3 Green Bay legislative races

The three most crucial legislative races in the Green Bay area for both parties follow a trail of money that ends in Madison.

The Press-Gazette compared 607 pages of September expense report data in contested legislative elections to an analysis from earlier in the year and found over $2 million poured into the races for Senate District 30 and Assembly Districts 88 and 89. Put another way, these three races received almost 2½ times more money in just over a month than all the local races got in the eight months before the Aug. 13 primary.

But the candidates don’t have millions of dollars to spend. It’s Wisconsin’s Democratic and Republican parties that are spending the very millions they injected into these three races they believe are the most important to keep an eye on in the state’s northeast and crucial to which party controls the state Legislature.

“Lower costs and better wages start with Republicans keeping control of the state Assembly and Senate,” Wisconsin GOP chair Brian Schimming told the Press-Gazette. He was confident Wisconsin residents would choose “common sense conservatives” in November to that end.




https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/10/wisconsin-green-bay-democrat-republican-senate-assembly-legislative-election/