Received this e-mail today from Russ Feingold’s (D. WI) campaign:
Friend,
I wanted to show you this fundraising email from Scott Walker. Now that his failed presidential run is over, Walker is telling donors that defeating Russ Feingold is his top priority. He's all in for Senator Ron Johnson.
Show Scott Walker you're all in for Russ: Make a $5 contribution right now.
Walker claims our campaign is "raising money hand over fist from the usual liberal suspects so that he can run nasty attack ads and smear Ron's good name."
Has Scott Walker turned on his TV lately? The attack ads on TV right now are from dark money groups trying to smear Russ.
We have other priorities: fighting for Wisconsin's students, seniors, and families. Our priority is to bring Wisconsinites together and reject Walker's "divide and conquer" brand of politics.
Scott Walker's #1 priority is defeating Russ Feingold. Show Walker and Senator Ron Johnson that you have different priorities.
Make a $5 contribution to Russ right now.
You can read the rest of Walker's email below. It gives you a good idea of what we're up against. Thanks for your continued support of Russ.
Tom Russell
Campaign Manager
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From: Scott Walker
Date: Fri, Nov 13, 2015
Subject: My top priority
Tom,
Running for president was an experience Tonette and I will never forget, and although the race didn't turn out the way we hoped, we will always be grateful for the wonderful help of people from all across the country.
In the coming months, we will continue to advocate for big, bold conservative reforms, and will also be helping like-minded conservatives across the country. And making sure that we defeat Washington Insiders like Hillary Clinton and Russ Feingold are my two top priorities.
As you know, Senator Russ Feingold is waging a bitter rematch against my friend Ron Johnson in what has quickly become the most contested and important Senate race in the country. It is my hope that you will stand with me in helping Ron defeat Senator Russ Feingold again—just like he did in 2010—with a generous contribution of $10, $35, $50, $100, $250, or more.
Majority control of the United States Senate could be determined by the outcome of this rematch, and Feingold is raising money hand over fist from the usual liberal suspects so that he can run nasty attack ads and smear Ron's good name. Simply put, Ron Johnson needs our help to fight back with the truth, and there isn't a moment to lose.
Both Hillary and Feingold have been around Washington forever. Both compiled terrible anti-business, pro-big government voting records when they served in the Senate together. Both love ObamaCare. Both are pro-abortion, hostile to the Constitution, and no friends of free enterprise.
Not only do we need a Republican as America's 45th President, we need to keep the Senate in Republican control, and to do this, we need to help re-elect my Wisconsin friend Ron Johnson. He is not a politician; 2010 was the first time he ran for office. Ron is an accountant who knows the Obama-Clinton-Feingold numbers don't add up. He is a small business owner who knows how to grow jobs by refusing to grow government.
This is a high-stakes battle and defeating Ron is the Democrats' #1 priority. Please contribute just as fast and generously as you can. $10 or $100 or even $1,000 WILL be a big help.
Tom, thanks so much.
Scott Walker