John W Connors

John W. Connors owns an obscure political firm called Campaign Now and is involved in several non profit 527 funds including Voter Mobilization LLC, The National Police Support Fund, American Police Officers Alliance, American Veterans Honor Fund, Firefighters and EMS Fund and the Veterans Action Network. Connors founded Campaign Now before he graduated, from Marquette University and built it into a firm that handled robocalls and voter outreach. He hired Simon Lewis and Kyle Maichle who were active in college conservative politics in Wisconsin when Connors was the leader of campus Republicans at Marquette. has worked for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, David Koch's Americans for Prosperity (AFP), and the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. Connors was also titular President of Citizens for a Strong America (CSA), a front group that was active in the 2011-2012 Wisconsin recall elections, supporting Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Republican state Senators. CSA was bankrolled by Wisconsin Club for Growth, and both were subjects of a long-running John Doe investigation into potentially illegal campaign coordination between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's campaign and ostensibly independent groups. Connors was President of Citizens for a Strong America, a group that first drew attention after an expensive ad buy in the 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court race. CSA spent an estimated $1.7 million on the 2011-2012 recalls, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. From 2009 to 2015, Connors was the Director of Special Projects at the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity,