WHY SHOULD I “REFUSE ULINE?”
The Uihleins have used their wealth to funnel millions of dollars into the most extreme right-wing politicians and movements in the United States.
The Uihleins are ranked by the donation-tracking site OpenSecrets.org as the fifth-largest donors in the United States to outside political spending organizations, having contributed a whopping $62.8 million to conservative groups in the 2020 election cycle.
• The founders of ULINE were the largest Trump donors in Wisconsin — and Mrs. Uihlein took a fundraising role with the Trump campaign.
• The Uihleins have funneled at least $27 million into “dark money” groups that funded the Republican law makers who baselessly voted to invalidate the 2020 election.
• The ULINE founders gave millions to the groups that stormed the US Capitol and organized the Jan 6 insurrection.
• The Ed Uihlein Family Foundation poured millions of dollars in 2020 into a sprawling number of groups connected to efforts to challenge Joe Biden’s victory and reimagine election law, as well as other right-wing extremist organizations, including ones designated as hate groups.
• The ULINE founders donated over $4 million dollars to bankroll the anti-abortion groups who pushed to overturn Roe v. Wade
• The Uihleins donated over $20 million to get Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis) into power, and in turn he personally ensured a tax break for “pass-through companies” like ULINE—netting $215 million in deductions in 2018 alone.
• ULINE received over $700k in government aid since the start of the pandemic — while the Uihleins poured over $1.1M to vaccine and election conspiracists in 2020.
• The Uihleins assail transgender rightsand bankroll partisan newspapers that try to disguise as “local reporting.”
• ULINE ignored public health recommendations for COVID while accepting federal funds to supply PPE and industrial cleaning supplies.
• The Uihleins funded Roy Moore’s campaign in Alabama—even donating after he was accused of sexual misconduct with underage girls.
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