Press Releases

WISCONSIN DELLS-Under heavy security and with sparse crowds at their annual convention, Wisconsin Republican leaders gave conflicting signals about the internal discord racking their party and their attempts to defend the Scott Walker-Paul Ryan overreach.

MADISON – Senator Ron Johnson yesterday voted against a Democratic bill that would have stripped big oil companies of multi-billion dollar annual tax subsidies.

MADISON- At a press conference in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Ron Johnson broadly endorsed the budget proposal presented by fellow Tea Party Senator Pat Toomey.

MADISON-Wisconsin's Republicans must be celebrating the Chinese New Year today, given their record and their willingness to cede the 21st Century to the emerging power.

MADISON- In trying to block an arms treaty with Russia, Ron Johnson begins his Senate career toeing the Republican party line - and conjuring a warped view of the U.S. Constitution which he claimed during his campaign he respected.

MADISON — The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has reported yet another example of millionaire Ron Johnson's hypocrisy, seeking government aid before he was a political candidate for U.S. Senate despite his constant attacks against the Recovery Act as a candidate.

MADISON — Three media organizations have now called out Ron Johnson for his false mailer that attacks as wasteful the same revenue bonds he used in the 1980’s to build his own business.

MADISON — Multimillionaire Republican candidate Ron Johnson’s campaign is fueled by his investments in companies like BP, health insurance companies, shadowy out-of-state special interest groups, and Washington lobbyists, according to FEC reports.  Johnson has also spent over $9 million of his family fortune on his campaign and his financial disclosure form shows Johnson has up to $10 million in debt to his his own company, Pacur.  Johnson has borrowed up to $10 million in company profits at less than 1 percent interest. The disclosure form shows Johnson loaned himself up to $5 million in 2004, and up to $5 million more in 2007.

MADISON – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has doubled down with over $200,000 more in attack ads on behalf of Ron Johnson, according to records from media buyers obtained by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin. To date, the Chamber has spent $742,206 airing TV attack ads on Ron Johnson's behalf. Media reports indicate that the chamber is raising money in part from foreign sources.

MADISON — Republican Senate Candidate Ron Johnson, who recently tried to revise history and deny why he lobbied against the Child Victims Act,  struck again last night in a debate in Wausau, trying to hide his own position on unemployment benefits and minimum wage and lying about the Recovery Act