NY Post Reporter Covering Wisconsin Also Paid By Wisconsin GOP
In June, the New York Post, the conservative paper run by right wing Rupert Murdoch, started running stories about congressional and senatorial races in battleground states. In Wisconsin, Murdoch picked Amy Sikma for the job.
But by no stretch of the imagination could one say that her reporting was fair and balanced. In fact, it was fairly unbalanced:
Records show Sikma was paid $2,500 in consulting fees by the state GOP in March and April 2023. She also received $4,200 for campaign consulting work for Kelly, a conservative candidate who lost to now-state Supreme Court Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal.
Sikma also said on her LinkedIn page that she was the campaign manager for Jennifer Meinhardt, a Republican who ran unsuccessfully for the state Assembly in 2021.
In one of her first jobs, Sikma was a research writer for Wisconsin Family Action, a conservative Christian group led by activist Julaine Appling, who helped lead the effort in 2006 to pass a constitutional amendment in Wisconsin banning same-sex marriage and civil unions. In 2014, a federal judge overturned the ban.
She also a history of writing for hightly partisan sites such as The Federalist.
When asked whether the fact that she is writing articles that are favorable to the GOP when she has a history of being paid by them, she naturally lied, of course: