Fake Dem candidates running in WI recall elections have raised “almost no money”; Gov. Walker, donors accused of breaking finance law

 ”Real” Republican and Democratic candidates in the Wisconsin recall elections are raising tons of cash, as opposed to the fake aka spoiler “Democrats” that we’ve posted about previously. In fact, the six real Dems who are running started with nearly a million buckaroos and have now raised more than $1.5 million. The Republican incumbents? $2.4 million, and they already had about $893,000.

Democrats need to win three seats to attain a Senate majority.

Maybe the fake Dems will also use fake Monopoly money:

 MADISON — Fake Democratic candidates running in recall elections to give Republican incumbents more time to campaign have raised almost no money for the effort, reports filed with the state showed Wednesday.

The candidates, prompted by the state Republican Party, ran simply to force a primary and thereby delay the general election by a month in hope of benefiting GOP incumbents by providing more time to campaign. [...]

Five of the six fake Democrats whose reports were available Wednesday raised just $4,200 — with nearly all the money coming from the Republican Party to help pay for copies and postage related to them filing as candidates.

But how did the real GOP incumbents manage to scrape together all that real money? JSOnline:

Madison - Driven by recall elections and rules that allow unlimited contributions, members of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee received huge campaign donations in recent months while they were writing the state budget.

For instance, Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills), co-chairwoman of the committee, raised $30,000 this year from a single contributor. Normally, state senators can’t receive more than $1,000 from a single donor, but since she was facing a recall Darling was able to raise unlimited amounts for a period of time because of a quirk in state law.

Not so fair and balanced.

Meantime, Wisconsin state insurance commissioner Ted Nickel and nine other donors to Republican Gov. Scott Walker have been accused of breaking the state’s campaign finance law.