MADISON, Wis. — Today, an ethics complaint was filed against the Republican Party of Wisconsin for clearly violating state campaign finance laws when they didn’t file a Pre-Primary report despite allocating time and money to this election. According to state statutes, if a political party like RPW “makes or accepts contributions, makes disbursements, or incurs obligations to support or oppose one or more candidates for office at a spring primary” then it must file a report. Despite RPW holding trainings and political events, and creating campaign materials supporting their candidates, no record exists on Wisconsin’s finance campaign website Sunshine. RPW is deliberately hiding whatever donations they have cobbled together.
“The Republican Party of Wisconsin is broken; their grassroots donors are abandoning them while their reliable billionaire donors like Elon Musk have shown no signs they will once again try to buy a Supreme Court seat—and now they’re trying to hide their failure by breaking the law,” said Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Devin Remiker. “Brian Schimming and the Republican Party of Wisconsin are making a mockery of the election integrity and transparency they falsely claim to care about so deeply. They need to immediately file their campaign finance report, no matter how embarrassing it is or the rebellion it could reawaken. The last RPW treasurer resigned specifically over the ‘lack of transparency’ that RPW is still engaging in as they lie to the press, their voters, and their donors. How much more failure can Brian Schimming hide before his own party tries to fire him again.”
See below for the numerous instances of RPW breaking the law:
