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Ben Wikler: “The Wisconsin campaign finance laws were written after…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Analysis with Ben Wickler

Published | Video Starts at 05:16

And I say that, you know, the Democrats have outraised Republicans in our state party for most of the last bunch of years. And I was saying that even then it's part of our state party platform very clearly. The Wisconsin campaign finance laws were written after McCain Feingold, I was a Russ Feingold intern, was struck down with Citizens United. And then nationally, the flood of dark money came in in Wisconsin, Robin Voss and Republicans rewrote our campaign finance laws in 20 if Democrats regain control, let's clean up our politics. (05:16–05:26)

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Asserts that Wisconsin's campaign finance laws were rewritten after Citizens United.

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