The Greater Wisconsin Committee, a group the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign refers to as a Milwaukee based Phony issue ad group is running a phony issue ad on Grant County radio stations. The group's phony ad urges voters to thank Rep. Garthwaite for voting for a budget that protects the middle class. Now anyone who has read anything about this budget knows that it raises dozens of taxes and fees on the middle class and that the Greater Wisconsin Committee ad is well...phony. More interesting than the content of the issue ad, however, is the funding source for the ad and the possible reasons this group is running it in favor of Rep. Garthwaite.
The Greater Wisconsin Committee is funded in large part by the trial lawyers lobby. Now why would the trial lawyers want thousands of dollars to be spent helping Rep. Garthwaite? Could it be because he was a deciding vote to save their auto-insurance mandate in the budget, the mandate that will cost you an extra $300 in premiums and will make them millions in lawsuit payouts?
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