{"id":1911206,"date":"2023-04-07T07:27:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-millions-from-george-soros-fueled-democrats-court-victory-in-wisconsin\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T07:28:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T11:28:49","slug":"how-millions-from-george-soros-fueled-democrats-court-victory-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-millions-from-george-soros-fueled-democrats-court-victory-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"How Millions From George Soros Fueled Democrats\u2019 Court Victory in Wisconsin"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhow-millions-from-george-soros-fueled-democrats-court-victory-in-wisconsin%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=1911206&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-->\n<div>\n<p>An examination of campaign finance disclosure forms carried out by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> has revealed that George Soros, a left-wing billionaire and his network of activist groups, contributed millions of dollars towards Janet Protasiewicz&#8217;s bid to win a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The amount of money that Soros pumped into Protasiewicz&#8217;s campaign totaled at least $2.8 million, marking a quarter of all outside spending on what was the most expensive state supreme court race in history. Additionally, Soros donated $1 million personally to the Democratic Party of Wisconsin on Feb. 22, which in turn, facilitated further funding for Protasiewicz&#8217;s campaign in the final weeks running up to the election.<\/p>\n<p>Soros has reportedly given away more than $12 billion to various charities and political causes. Over the past decade, both Soros and activist groups that he funds have allegedly spent over $40 million financing the election of left-wing prosecutors nationwide, a move critics say plays a partial role in the country&#8217;s increasing crime rate. Soros has been heavily focused on reforming the nation&#8217;s legal system for many years, with a recent example being the Open Society Foundation which doubled its funding for Demand Justice earlier this year. Demand justice is a left-wing activist group that seeks to revamp the Supreme Court. Soros&#8217;s investment in Wisconsin marks his first major venture into a state supreme court race.<\/p>\n<p>Protasiewicz&#8217;s win over conservative jurist Daniel Kelly now gives liberals their first majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in the last 15 years. Soros&#8217;s spending is expected to bring a solid return on investment, with the new majority court expected to weigh in on several controversial issues that include &#8220;right to work,&#8221; abortion access, the state&#8217;s legislature map, and voter ID laws.<\/p>\n<p>A good number of the outside groups that supported Protasiewicz had Soros-funded non-profits as their largest backers. For instance, the Better Wisconsin Together Political Action Fund, which spent $6.2 million on ads supporting Protasiewicz, received $1.6 million from the State Victory Action in early 2023. State Victory Action, in turn, obtained $1.6 million from the Soros-funded Democracy PAC in 2022. Prostasiewicz&#8217;s campaign spending was approximately $6 million more significant than her opponent in the $45 million contest, representing the most expensive state supreme court in history. <\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Conservation Voters Independent Expenditure Committee, which spent $1 million supporting Protasiewicz, was bankrolled primarily by the Soros-funded nonprofit America Votes. Soros&#8217;s Open Society network contributed a combined $40.4 million to America Votes from 2017 through 2021. America Votes routinely channels funds to its associated Action Fund, such as in July 2022 when the group transferred $2 million to its political arm. Subsequently, the America Votes Action Fund allocated $447,500 to the Power to the Polls Action Fund in March, enabling the latter to spend over $540,000 on mailings, canvassing, and ads in support of Protasiewicz.<\/p>\n<p>One group that Soros didn&#8217;t finance was the Organizing Empowerment PAC, whose funding source was a topic of controversy. The group spent $532,500 to mobilize voters for Protasiewicz but failed to disclose any donors to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. In a March 14 complaint to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, the Republican Party of Wisconsin claimed the PAC&#8217;s failure to reveal its supporters was part of an illegal campaign to elect Protasiewicz. Kelly echoed that allegation in his concession speech, calling the campaign &#8220;the most deceitful, dishonorable, despicable campaign he had seen to run for courts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The majority of individuals who funded Protasiewicz&#8217;s campaign did not devote as much money as Soros, who is a continuous target of Republican criticism. Recently, Soros&#8217;s role in financing the Democratic Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg has come under scrutiny. Bragg charged former President Donald Trump with 32 felonies over alleged hush money payments to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels. Several legal observers from different political affiliations have criticized Bragg&#8217;s case as flimsy and politically motivated.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left-wing billionaire George Soros and his network of activist groups spent millions of dollars to help Janet Protasiewicz win a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, a Washington Free Beacon analysis of campaign finance disclosure forms found. The total amount of money stemming from groups bankrolled by the hedge-fund billionaire totals at least $2.8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1911207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4733,3685,5317,5811,4961,7407,7621,4124],"class_list":["post-1911206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-court","tag-democrats","tag-fueled","tag-george","tag-millions","tag-soros","tag-victory","tag-wisconsin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911206","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\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1911207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}