SARA RODRIGUEZ – WI LT GOVERNOR – CAMPAIGN FUNDS ETHICS COMPLAINTS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS – $142,394.16

The Sara Rodriguez for Wisconsin (SRW) campaign (Sara Rodriguez, Lt. Governor) allegedly utilized illegal methods to fund their campaign, including using individuals’ names and addresses as money mules. This is an unethical practice known as “Smurfing”. The campaign also violated reporting laws.

New in this report, starting on Page 3, reveals the FEC non-transparency as admitted on their website. The batch download of the FEC donation numbers per donor found on ElectionWatch.info will rarely match the actual FEC website lookup of the same donors. This is huge as you can see, revealed on Exhibit B, the actual FEC entry numbers per SRW donor is much much higher for the most part.

Keep in mind two things:

1) that we use the total FEC donation entries as our criteria to allege smurfing in state campaigns.

2) this smurfing complaint is just for individual contributions to her campaign. It does not include the PAC money she received that also includes smurfs in many of those PACs (i.e. see the Democratic Party of WI complaint).

Last names are blacked out in the reports as well as the allegations that the Wisconsin Ethics Commission dismissed in the smurf complaint.

The complaints submitted to and accepted for further consideration by the Wisconsin Ethics Commission reveal:

Alleged individual false donations totaling $120,259.16.
Alleged campaign recording violations (missing street address, etc.) totaling $22,135.00.
Three significant donors with the same last name donated from three different California cities from UPS store boxes.
Video evidence of five SRW donors denying authorization for federal and state substantial contributions.
Go to https://electionwatch.info/ for Wisconsin or Michigan (new) advanced searches for statistics per smurf or for donors in a specific area in state AND federal campaigns.

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How We Obtained The Information

The data on the enclosed includes: -campaign information from 1/1/2021 to current, -originated from official open sources, -consists of 182,524,799 (~182.5Million) individual contributor transactions bulk downloaded from www.fec.gov in 2-year increments as 2017-2018, 2019-2020, 2021- 2022 and 2023-2024 zip files. The 2023-2024 dataset was downloaded in mid-April 2023 and is as yet continuing to accrue transactions. Our Wisconsin dataset was downloaded from cfis.wi.gov during the first week of September 2023 and consists of 5,687,788 individual contributor transactions of all available types. These datasets were loaded into a website with an SQL database and subsequently sorted, counted, categorized, grouped, aggregated, summarized and cross referenced into various reports and statistics.

SARA RODRIGUEZ – WI LT GOVERNOR – CAMPAIGN FUNDS ETHICS COMPLAINTS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTIONS – $142,394.16

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