ProPublica, 3/7/2022
A ProPublica review found that VoteRef’s origins and funders are closely linked to a super PAC predominantly funded by billionaire Richard Uihlein, founder of the mammoth Wisconsin-based packaging supply company Uline. A descendant of one of the founders of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company, Uihlein is a major Trump supporter and a key player in Wisconsin and Illinois politics. Among his political donations: $800,000 in September 2020 to the Tea Party Patriots political action committee, a group that helped organize the Jan. 6 rally that led to the Capitol insurrection.
Uihlein and his wife, Elizabeth Uihlein, have contributed in excess of $30 million combined over two decades to mainly Republican candidates on the state and local level, particularly in Illinois and Wisconsin, according to OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan organization that tracks campaign donor information. The total includes money given to groups that advocate on behalf of candidates as well as direct contributions.
10/27/2921 update, "Ultraconservative Republican megadonor Richard Uihlein puts fingerprints all over Mequon-Thiensville school board recall", starts here.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10/26/2021
The first look at the financial ties in a race watched around the country, the reports released Monday show thousands of dollars from inside and outside Mequon supporting the recall committees and their candidates, who have together raised more than $47,000.
The incumbent candidates claimed exemptions from filing reports for their individual campaigns because they raised less than $2,000 each. But a committee to support the incumbent candidates filed a report showing it has raised about $27,000 mostly from local donations of smaller sums.
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (boxes and arrows added)
10/21/2020 update, "GET ME REWRITE: Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein donate millions to GOP to secure American oligarchy, starts here.
Photo credit: Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
(Influence Peddler of the Month, 4/1/2016)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10/20/2020
Donor tally from the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign
Deniers and Disbelievers: "If I Get Corona, I Get Corona". (The New York Times, 3/22/2020)
And in the Midwest, Uline, a major distributor of packaging materials and industrial supplies, kept its work force going through the week, despite complaints from employees, including those crowded into its call centers, working side-by-side in cubicles.
“Nothing’s really changed,” one employee said. “It’s just nerve-wracking.
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UPDATE. Sugar daddy Richard Uihlein has quite the hard-on for GOP central-casting prettyboy Kevin Nicholson. (7/15/2018)
The chutzpah chronicles: Scott Walker bemoans the influx of out-of-state money and attacks in political campaigns. (6/13/2018)
Scott Walker's sugar daddy and far-right conservative rich guy Richard Uihlein writes big checks for like-minded Supreme Court candidates. (4/14/2018)
Richard Uihlein and the Koch Brothers fall in love with central-casting version of U.S. Senate candidate, shower him with money. (4/10/2018)
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