The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is a
nonpartisan political watchdog group working for clean government and real
democracy. To carry out that mission, WDC tracks the money in state politics and
works for campaign finance, media and other pro-democracy reforms. The Democracy
Campaign pursues these objectives through research, citizen education, community
outreach, coalition building and direct advocacy.
WDC
has built an alliance of over 40 statewide groups in Wisconsin called the Voters
First Coalition that has united behind a comprehensive campaign reform
initiative. Among the many provisions of the Voters First plan is public
financing of state Supreme Court races.
The
Democracy Campaign has also built the only Wisconsin searchable database of
campaign contributors. The database now contains more than 400,000 records
of campaign contributions to state campaigns, and is made available to the
public – free of charge and at the click of a computer mouse – on the Democracy Campaign’s web site.
WDC
was founded in 1995 as a not for profit, independent coalition of individuals
and groups responding to the growing dominance of special interest money in the
campaigns of state lawmakers
