End of Campaign Finance Reform

The End of Campaign Finance Reform: the Well-Funded Push to Legalize Coordination in Wisconsin and Around the Country

A legitimate bipartisan effort to enforce Wisconsin’s long-standing campaign finance laws has been contorted beyond recognition into a “partisan witch hunt” by a well-funded legal and media campaign. These attorneys and news sources are funded by the same individuals and groups at the center of the investigation, and they have twisted the facts, turn the tables, and used trumped-up allegations to deter further investigations, and blow a hole in what remains of limits on big money in politics.

This campaign has involved well-funded legal battles involving judges with conflicts-of-interest, biased media organizations with powerful financial ties to the same groups facing criminal liability, and a healthy dose of cynical political theater