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The Wisconsin Democratic Party released its first official campaign ad in the recall election of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Monday. The advertisement—which focuses on allegations of campaign-finance violations and embezzlement by two Walker aides from his time as a Milwaukee County executive—compares the governor to Richard Nixon and invokes the specter of the Watergate scandal.
Mike Tate, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has his own history of involvement with political organizations guilty of campaign finance violations, however.
In 2004, Tate served as deputy state director of the liberal, tax-exempt 527 political organization America Coming Together (ACT). In 2007, the FEC fined ACT $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to support John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 election cycle. The FEC found that most of the $137 million ACT raised for its 2004 efforts came through contributions that violated federal limits. At the time, the ACT fine was the third largest enforcement penalty the FEC had ever given out. The FEC approved the fine unanimously.
The Wisconsin Democratic Party released its first official campaign ad in the recall election of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Monday. The advertisement—which focuses on allegations of campaign-finance violations and embezzlement by two Walker aides from his time as a Milwaukee County executive—compares the governor to Richard Nixon and invokes the specter of the Watergate scandal.
Mike Tate, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, has his own history of involvement with political organizations guilty of campaign finance violations, however.
In 2004, Tate served as deputy state director of the liberal, tax-exempt 527 political organization America Coming Together (ACT). In 2007, the FEC fined ACT $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to support John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 election cycle. The FEC found that most of the $137 million ACT raised for its 2004 efforts came through contributions that violated federal limits. At the time, the ACT fine was the third largest enforcement penalty the FEC had ever given out. The FEC approved the fine unanimously.
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