Trump appears to have laundered campaign money
through Langlade County to take down Robin Vos .
Donald Trump’s “Save America” political action committee donated $9,000 to the Langlade County Republican party in the 2022 election cycle. Trump ally Mike Lindell, founder of MyPillow, sent another $4,000 to Langlade County, where there was no legislative primary race. The Langlade GOP then funneled $22,727 to Adam Steen, who posed a primary challenge to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in his Racine County district, it is charged.
Individuals and PACs can donate no more than $1,000 to a legislative candidate but county political parties are permitted unlimited amounts. In Steen’s case, according to on-line text messages uncovered by WISN radio journalist Dan O’Donnell, the donations to the Langlade County GOP were specifically earmarked for a particular candidate with the code numeral “63” — the Steen/Vos legislative district in Racine County. Specifically earmarking donations to political parties is prohibited by Wisconsin Statute § 11.1202(3). Antigo, the county seat of Langlade County, is 210 miles north of Racine — far outside the Assembly district Vos and Steen were contesting. In northwest Wisconsin, the Chippewa County Republican Party air mailed another $4,000 to the Steen campaign in southeastern Wisconsin.
The Steen campaign has been under investigation for almost a year but O’Donnell has revealed previously redacted text messages to prove it.
“The Steen campaign was illegally laundering donations in Langlade County and others,” O’Donnell alleged over the WISN airwaves 09-28-23. “Money was donated to Langlade County with the direct intent of being funneled to Adam Steen.” Langlade County gave upwards of $23,000 to Steen’s campaign even though it is nowhere near the 63rd Assembly District.
Trump sure can pick ’em
Steen’s is the only Wisconsin campaign in the 2022 election cycle to which Trump contributed, O’Donnell reports, despite endorsing Tim Michels for governor. Robin Vos offended the MAGA world by firing Mike Gableman just as the former justice was about to uncover the Crime of the Century — the wily Joe Biden’s plot to steal Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes, according to election deniers like Steen, Janel Brandtjen, and Timothy Ramthun. In their view, Robin Vos, Republican leader of the Assembly, is a clandestine RINO Biden operative!
Laundering in Langlade
O’Donnell referenced August 2022 messages via the on-line messaging app Telegram from Steen and campaign treasurer Carol Vaclavicek that, he said, “prove beyond any reasonable doubt, the Steen campaign was laundering money through Langlade County.” One of her messages instructed activist Adrianne Melby that “sizable donors” were being “sent through the GOP of Langlais [sic] County who agreed to act as a conduit.”
Treasurer Vaclavicek instructs, “Political parties don’t have individual donor limits so if you happen to know of anyone in that [the plus-$1,000] category, that’s the place to send them.”
Asked, “Do we have PAC info yet?” Steen campaign staffer Kelly Clark responds, ”Let me check with Adam again.” Then directs a donor to send the check to “Republican Party of Langlade County, payable ‘RPLC,’ PO box 463, Antigo WI 54409.” O’Donnell recounts:
“To signal to the Langlade County Republican Party that the check was to be immediately dispersed to Adam Steen you write “63” [Steen’s Assembly district] on the check.”
According to O’Donnell’s report, Clark writes: “Adam told me that RPLC [Republican Party of Langlade County] info is not public and is only for people who donated over $1,000. “I didn’t look at yesterday’s donations yet but up through the 13th everyone who donated more than $1,000 had been given that info.” O’Donnell asks, Why would that info not be public? Because it’s illegal.”
“This is money laundering. This is a criminal conspiracy to get around campaign finance laws." — Dan O'Connell, WISN radio.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Vos haters decry that their man Steen was expelled from the Racine County Republican party. Republicans have to have some standards of contact, don’t they?
11 responses to “Did Trump mastermind Vos challenger’s campaign finance scam?”
The real question is: Has anyone here bought a MyPillow?
They look flimsy.
“They look flimsy.”
They do look flimsy, OE, but by no means more so the epically inept Bi-Polar bares, who have reportedly purchased 11 of them to replace a laughably porous defense pathetic enough to allow 24 unanswered points from the Broncos.
Since Elon Musk purchased Twitter nearly one (1) year ago on 10/22/2022, only one American Sports Major League team (NHL, MLB, NBA, MLS, and NFL) hasn’t won a game; guess who:
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After Further Review, The bares Still SUCK!!!
The Gotch
wash rinse repeat. Apparently you can’t comprehend what Dave posted; thus, leading to another off topic response.
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Better yet; when is a secret panel not a secret panel? Will the results remain secret or be secretly released to Vos who will then keep that info secret. What if your wife finds out about the secret $100 stashed in the secret pocket in your wallet. Why is it secretly hidden anyway? Are we all secretly laughing about using the words Mastermind and tRump in the same sentence?
It’s a non-story. I ask three esteemed jurists to advise me plus a fortune teller and a carnival guess-yer-weight barker. As long as I’m not paying them taxpayer $$$.
I have a feeling there will be a money component to this group of three that will come to light. Money and politics go hand in hand. ALWAYS.
After several years as a close reader and an occasional poster on Mr. Blaska’ blog, I finally OD’d this morning on the stupid and relentless sports-ball focus and the even more egregious, world-class case of Trump Derangement Syndrome. I hit the unsubscribe button six times or so just now, not certain if any of those tries will actually do the trick.
Goodbye, Alan. We’ll miss you. Come back when you recover from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Before you leave, what WOULD Trump need to do to lose your blind allegiance?
Following a first-hand, road-to-Damascus experience with Bob Dylan in 1964 or so, where I learned what “charisma” actually entailed in full, Dylan’s still the only man out there to whom I have “blind allegiance”. Being a smart-ass —and maybe still sometimes ethically-challenged— New Yawk boy myself (although a native of Brooklyn, not Queens), I’m under zero illusions of Orange Man Bad’s unalloyed wonderfulness. But almost everything he says in public is righteous, true and essential. See “in the land of the blind…”
I thought campaign finance transparency was to keep elections honest? I guess both parties have found ways around laws.