USA Today/Center for Public Integrity: Out-of-state donors are pouring cash into local campaigns of Democrats across the country
"If you can get certain policies to succeed in Wisconsin — such as voter suppression, voter ID laws, extreme partisan gerrymandering, the destruction of the public employee unions, the right-to-work — then you can do it in almost any state in the country," Jay Heck, executive director of public interest advocacy group Common Cause in Wisconsin, said. "So I think that's one of the reasons why you see so much money pouring into Wisconsin and into Walker's campaign."