As they saying goes, “those who live in glass houses, shouldn’t throw stones.”
For months, Tammy Baldwin has taken to the campaign trail to whine about the “out-of-state billionaires” spending against her, and even made stopping outside spending a central theme of her campaign this year.
But, a new report today shows that Tammy Baldwin’s own campaign has received the overwhelming majority of its funding from … out-of-state donors.
According to the analysis, nearly 60% of Baldwin’s campaign funds come from out-of-state including $1.24 million from California, $1.1 million from New York and $450,000 from Washington, D.C. The report also notes that super PACs funded by out-of-state hedge fund billionaires have spent millions to support Tammy’s re-election. (She tends to leave that part out of her speeches)
Pretty rich for a Senator who promised “Wisconsin refuses to be bought.”
In case you missed it…
Tammy Baldwin’s Campaign Fueled By Out-Of-State Donors
Washington Free Beacon
June 27, 2018
http://freebeacon.com/politics/tammy-baldwins-campaign-fueled-state-donors/
Millions of dollars are flowing into Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s (D., Wis.) campaign coffers from outside her home state despite the senator’s campaign fundraising off out-of-state money from deep-pocketed Republican donors against her in nearly every one of its fundraising emails…
“Polls continue to show a very close election here in Wisconsin, and with billionaires like the Koch Brothers and Illinois millionaire Richard Uihlein spending so much money in this race, we cannot afford to sit on the sidelines,” the email reads.
“I was planning to have us take the day off after our Cheddarbomb earlier this week, but the Koch brothers had a different idea. A ‘powerful conservative group’ bankrolled by the Kochs just announced a new series of ads attacking Tammy!” a later fundraising email from the campaign reads.
Despite Baldwin’s constant fundraising pitches being based on out-of-state money from Republicans, her campaign is being fueled by out of state donors, and she is receiving assistance from outside liberal groups and operatives.
Nearly 60 percent of Baldwin’s campaign contributions are from outside of Wisconsin, records show.
This cycle Baldwin has received $1.24 million in itemized contributions from residents in California; $1.1 million from New York; $514,500 from Illinois; $450,000 from Washington, D.C.; $447,000 from Massachusetts; $340,000 from Texas; $220,000 from Pennsylvania; $200,000 from residents in Maryland and Florida; $165,000 from Virginians; $115,000 from Washington; $107,000 from Colorado; and $100,000 from Minnesota. Residents from the remaining states each added tens of thousands, on average.
Residents in Wisconsin have given $3.9 million to Baldwin’s campaign as of March 31. The campaign did not return a request for comment on the donations.
Leah Vukmir, a registered nurse and state senator who is running in the Republican primary, and who has been endorsed by the Wisconsin Republican Party and Rep. Paul Ryan, has received nearly 70 percent of her contributions from Wisconsinites.
Baldwin has also received outside help from the Senate Majority PAC (SMP), a D.C.-based Democratic Super PAC founded by former Harry Reid staffers. The group has spent more than $1 million in independent expenditures in support of Baldwin.
Top donors to SMP this election cycle are Donald Sussman, a hedge-funder who gave $3.5 million, and Alexander Soros, the son of liberal billionaire George Soros, who has donated $2 million to the committee, filings show. George Soros added $1 million.
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