{"id":1585891,"date":"2022-08-03T05:04:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T09:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585891"},"modified":"2022-08-03T05:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T09:04:31","slug":"dark-money-network-boosts-wisconsin-dem-who-wants-to-end-undisclosed-funding-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dark-money-network-boosts-wisconsin-dem-who-wants-to-end-undisclosed-funding-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Money Network Boosts Wisconsin Dem Who Wants To End Undisclosed Funding in Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdark-money-network-boosts-wisconsin-dem-who-wants-to-end-undisclosed-funding-in-politics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585891&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Group backed by Sixteen Thirty Fund to spend $5 million to support Mandela Barnes<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tMandela Barnes (Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/alana-goodman\/\" title=\"Posts by Alana Goodman\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Alana Goodman<\/a> \u2022 August 3, 2022 4:59 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Mandela Barnes, a Democratic Senate candidate in Wisconsin, is getting a major boost from a liberal dark-money network despite campaigning on a pledge to crack down on undisclosed funding in politics.<\/p>\n<p>The Family Friendly Action PAC, a group run by Democratic political operatives that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/07\/27\/family-friendly-pac-23-million-suburban-women-00048048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> a $23 million election canvassing operation last week, endorsed Barnes, the presumptive Democratic nominee, on Monday and said it plans to spend at least $5 million to support his race against Republican incumbent senator Ron Johnson. The super PAC is primarily funded by the dark-money organizations Sixteen Thirty Fund and America Votes.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is at odds with Barnes\u2019s professed opposition to undisclosed political spending. The candidate has promised to &#8220;stand up to the corrupting influence of dark money&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/mandelabarnes.com\/priorities\/democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highlighted<\/a> the issue as a key plank of his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The Family Friendly Action PAC on Monday announced its endorsement of Barnes and said it was &#8220;proud to support him as he runs to replace Ron Johnson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The super PAC received $1.4 million from America Votes and $285,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund, according to FEC records.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixteen Thirty Fund is one of the largest liberal dark-money organizations and poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the 2020 election. America Votes, another dark-money group, received most of its funding from the Sixteen Thirty Fund in the 2020 cycle, according to <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes has not publicly objected to the Family Friendly Action PAC\u2019s endorsement or spending pledge. The super PAC\u2019s Wisconsin state director Brita Olsen worked as a consultant for Barnes in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes\u2019s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time outside groups have moved to help Barnes despite his supposed opposition to dark money and corporate PACs. On June 15, the Democrat posted a note on his website saying he needed help getting positive advertising about his personal background out to the pricey &#8220;Milwaukee, Madison and the Green Bay media markets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Days later, a group called the Courageous Leaders PAC\u2014funded by Barnes donor Karla Jurvetson\u2014poured more than $400,000 into ads promoting the exact message outlined by Barnes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/investigations\/daniel-bice\/2022\/06\/29\/courageous-leaders-super-pac-responds-mandela-barnes-call-help-tv-ads-in-hopes-of-facing-ron-johnson\/7754785001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes\u2019s campaign also hired Marc Elias, one of the Democratic Party\u2019s top &#8220;dark money&#8221; lawyers, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/senate-candidate-hired-dem-dark-money-lawyer-while-campaigning-against-money-in-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> earlier this year. Elias\u2019s firm works for Arabella Advisors, a for-profit consulting firm that manages the Sixteen Thirty Fund and similar groups.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Group backed by Sixteen Thirty Fund to spend $5 million to support Mandela Barnes  Mandela Barnes (Getty Images)  Alana Goodman \u2022 August 3, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1585891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}