Liquor Industry buys Wisconsin Legislators for $115,000

Well, at least that's the implication in this news story.

The liquor lobby in Wisconsin spent $115,000 buying votes in the state legislature. According to the story, "the two largest recipients were the Assembly committees that are in charge of getting Republicans and Democrats elected. The Democratic committee got $17,500 while the Republican one received $13,800." This puts the Wisconsin liquor lobby at the 5th largest lobby group.

Notice that the article doesn't mention the four larger ones and how much they spent. Since the general tone of the article is negative, I am forced to conclude that the other lobby groups had halos and wings.