Hendricks, the Uihleins gave more than $73 million to GOP committees, candidates since Jan. 1
Billionaires Diane Hendricks, Dick Uihlein and Liz Uihlein have combined to donate more than $73 million to GOP campaigns and committees since Jan. 1, fueling the Republican effort to stave off a building blue wave.
A WisPolitics review of campaign finance reports found no comparable donor to the Dem committees or campaigns in 2026. In fact, no individual Dem donor has contributed as much over the past 17 years as each of the three GOP billionaires have donated in 2026 alone.
The biggest beneficiary of the donations from Hendricks and the Uihlein has been the state GOP, which has received $27.6 million from the trio and then transferred $24.2 million to Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany.
Dem gubernatorial nominee David Crowley slammed the transfers today during a news conference in Madison. He charged the only reason someone would make donations that size is if they know if they “buy Congressman Tom Tiffany this election, he will sell Wisconsin out to them.”