MADISON, Wis. – Three time winner of Orange County, California’s Most Influential Eric Hovde is a California bank owner with more ties to California than Wisconsin.

  • Hovde is the owner, chairman, and CEO of a $3.2 billion California bank based in Orange County, CA, where he’s been named one of the most influential people not once, not twice, but three times. 
  • This past June, when Tammy Baldwin was in Milwaukee meeting with families about lowering the cost of childcare, news came out that Hovde had skipped out on campaign events in Wisconsin to lounge on his private beach.
  • Just last year, while Tammy Baldwin was working for Wisconsin in the United States Senate, Eric Hovde had his absentee ballot sent to his mansion in Laguna Beach, California. 
  • And while Eric Hovde left Wisconsin for 24 years after graduating college, Tammy Baldwin has been living in Wisconsin and fighting her entire life for working Wisconsinites. She’s traveled across the state listening to every Wisconsinite, whether they live in an urban, suburban, or rural community, or a red, purple, or blue community.
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