Mary Stitt & Associates
| Mary Stitt & Associates | |
| Basic facts | |
| Location: | Port Washington, Wis. |
| Type: | Fundraising and event services |
| Top official: | Mary C. Stitt, President |
| Year founded: | 1997 |
Mary Stitt & Associates is a political fundraising and event services firm owned and operated by Mary Stitt.[1] The firm works with Republican candidates for state and federal office in Wisconsin.
History
The firm was founded in 1997 by Mary C. Stitt, a political consultant specializing in fundraising and event services.[1] Stitt previously served as finance director for Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, a Republican. One of her first financial consulting clients was Congressman Mark Green, and she later provided similar services for Green's unsuccessful 2006 campaign for Governor of Wisconsin against incumbent Democrat Jim Doyle.[2]
Work
Mary Stitt is a longtime fundraising aide to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. In the first half of 2013, she was paid $57,000 by the Walker campaign for consulting services.[3] FEC filings from the first half of 2015 show that Unintimidated PAC, a political action committee supporting Scott Walker's 2016 presidential campaign, made two payments totaling $40,177.48 to Mary Stitt & Associates for "fundraising consulting."[4]
In June through September of 2014, Mary Stitt was listed on WisPolitics.org as the event contact for various fundraisers featuring Wisconsin Republicans, including Governor Scott Walker, U.S. Representatives Sean Duffy and Paul Ryan, and state Senators Joe Leibham and Alberta Darling.[5][6][7][8] Paul Ryan's campaign paid Stitt at least $10,000 for fundraising services in 2014.[9]
Noteworthy events
John Doe investigations
Two John Doe investigations, beginning in 2010 and ending in 2015, were launched by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm (D) into the activities of staff and associates of Gov. Scott Walker (R).[10] Mary Stitt & Associates was one of 29 conservative organizations that were targeted during the course of the second of two John Doe investigations in Wisconsin related to Gov. Scott Walker (R).[11][12]
Recent news
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See also
- John Doe investigations related to Scott Walker
- Scott Walker
- Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin)
- James Doyle (Wisconsin)
- Paul Ryan
- Sean Duffy
- Joe Leibham
- Alberta Darling
External links
- Mary Stitt & Associates on Bizapedia
- Political Contributions by Individuals in Port Washington, Wis.
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bizapedia, "Mary Stitt and Associates, LLC," accessed August 12, 2015
- ↑ ZoomInfo, "Mary Crutchfield Stitt," accessed August 12, 2015
- ↑ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Boogie nights and happy trails: the firms behind the Walker campaign's fundraising machine," July 26, 2013
- ↑ Federal Election Commission, "Itemized Disbursements: Unintimidated PAC," accessed August 12, 2015
- ↑ WisPolitics, "Event Calendar: June 2014," accessed August 12, 2015
- ↑ WisPolitics, "Event Calendar: July 2014," accessed August 12, 2015
- ↑ WisPolitics, "Event Calendar: August 2014," accessed August 12, 2015
- ↑ WisPolitics, "Event Calendar: September 2014," accessed August 12, 2015
- ↑ Roll Call, "Fundraising Puts Rep. Paul Ryan’s War Chest Over $4 Million," April 9, 2014
- ↑ United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Milwaukee Division, "Eric O’Keefe, and Wisconsin Club for Growth, Inc.," accessed February 23, 2015
- ↑ Wisconsin Watchdog, "Wall Street Journal: GAB targeted conservative justices in John Doe defense," September 17, 2015
- ↑ Eric O'Keefe v. Francis Schmitz, et al., "Complaint," accessed September 16, 2015
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