Report: Foreign-Funded Dark Money Group Shelled Out $1 Million To Elect Wisconsin Leftist Susan Crawford

A left-wing dark money group bankrolled by foreign cash donated $1 million to an organization seeking to elect leftist Susan Crawford to Wisconsin’s supreme court, a new report reveals.

Campaign finance records first unearthed by Americans for Public Trust (APT) show that the Sixteen Thirty Fund gave $1 million to A Better Wisconsin Together Political Fund (ABWT) in early March. As noted by InfluenceWatch, ABWT is a “communications hub for left-of-center issues and advocacy in the state of Wisconsin.”

The organization’s political fund has spent $9.1 million backing efforts to elect Crawford, who is running against conservative Brad Schimel in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to a March 27 Open Secrets report. The winner of the contest will determine the ideological make-up

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