Wisconsin Democrats are burying Republicans in 2024 fundraising

[brooklynite]

Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

For Wisconsin Republicans who believed holding the national convention in Wisconsin later this year would mean an immediate financial windfall for the state party, they will be sadly mistaken, at least for now.

State records show that the state Republican Party brought in $863,553 in its state and federal accounts during the first three months of the year. Of that, $287,650 came in two donations in the past two weeks — $237,650 from Beloit billionaire Diane Hendricks and $50,000 from retired Racine businessman Fred Young.

By contrast, the state Democratic Party raised nearly $9.6 million in both federal and state accounts in the first quarter of the year, a ratio of more than $11 to $1 compared to Democrats.

Among the biggest givers to the state Democrats this year are Silicon Valley investor Reid Hoffman, who contributed $2 million; billionaire financier George Soros, $1 million; and Kenneth Duda, co-founder of cloud networking solutions provider Arista, $1 million.

Read more: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/02/wisconsin-democrats-have-buried-republicans-in-2024-fundraising/73170719007/

[Raven123]

1. The GOP only cares about out of state money when it supports Dems

Noted the typo in the second paragraph of the article. I believe it intended to read Dems out raised Republicans, 11-1.

Nice to know my contribution was one of many to the cause.

[cstanleytech]

2. Republicans underestimated the anger of women I suspect over the SCOTUS abortion ruling.

[Chi67]

6. Yep

Yes, they did. And they are still underestimating that anger.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Hendricks name seems familiar. Maybe she donated a lot to Paul Ryan?

[brooklynite]

4. Here's her file

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=hendricks,%20diane%20m

[LuvLoogie]

5. There's a clip of this exchange with Scott Walker. A real piece of work she is.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/scott-walker-promised-500k-donor-he-would-divide-and-conquer-unions/

?si=ou3EKrXHMd4rsPh7

[mitch96]

7. The trick is, can the $money$ be converted to votes?...nt