Sen. Ron Johnson may be a polarizing figure in Washington, but he has managed to please a couple of key figures in his home state, Wisconsin.
Sen. Ron Johnson has the financial backing of Diane Hendricks and Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, whose Wisconsin-based businesses made them billionaires.Sen. Ron Johnson may be a polarizing figure in Washington, but he has managed to please a couple of key people in his home state, Wisconsin. Diane Hendricks, a Wisconsin native and the richest self-made woman in America, has given $6.5 million to a super PAC backing Johnson.
The donations mostly flowed through a super PAC called Wisconsin Truth PAC. Hendricks gave $6.5 million to the outfit, and the Uihleins kicked in $3.5 million. The PAC in turn spent $9.2 million on ads supporting Johnson, including almost $3.6 million in July alone. In addition, the Uihleins cut checks totaling $292,100 to Ron Johnson Victory, a joint fundraising committee that supports Johnson’s campaign and other Republican groups. Richard Uihlein funneled another $2.2 million to Americas PAC, a super PAC he has almost single-handedly bankrolled that has spent $284,000 on the race.
Johnson has gotten more support from another famous billionaire in the Heartland. Kansas-based Koch Industries, led by Charles Koch, has given $6.5 million to another super PAC supporting Johnson, Americans for Prosperity Action. That group spent over $2.8 million supporting Johnson and gave him a 100% on its scorecard that grades votes on key legislation. “Sen.
The Uihleins, Koch Industries and Hendricks are all big-time donors nationally. This cycle, Richard Uihlein has funded ads knocking Democrats running for Senate in
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