By Brian Sikma March 03, 2014 A powerful labor union backed a Democratic candidate in a special election last year but never disclosed the amount of money it spent on the effort. The AFL-CIO backed Elizabeth Coppola, a Democrat, in the Assembly District 21 special election last November. Running phone banks out of their office and offering the services of a political coordinator, the union campaigned for Coppolas election. But not once did the AFL-CIO disclose its political spending backing Coppola. Nor did the Coppola campaign report any AFL-CIO spending as an in-kind campaign contribution. State campaign finance regulations require labor unions and other groups to disclose how much money they spend on efforts to elect candidates. Alternatively, campaigns must disclose any contributions they receive from political groups and individual donors. The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO ran at least three phone banks out of its 6333 W. Bluemound Road, Milwaukee office using labor union members and ... According to the Government Accountability Board, the state regulator in charge of overseeing elections and political activities in Wisconsin, political action committees and groups independent of campaigns and political parties must disclose how much they spent on efforts to support or oppose a candidate. (Excerpt) Read more: http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2014/03/03/wisafl-ciofailedtodisclosespecialelectionspending Come on folks, we know that the unions were doing Obama's work during the Wisconsin special election. Will the DOJ go after them as they're going after D'Souza? Nah they're Obama's anointed, they'll skate but they'll go out of their way to convict D'Souza.
