GOPYachtSale.com Updates: DC Leah Joins Bidding War, Hovde Paid $0 State Taxes in 2015, Schneider Bows Out

MADISON, Wis., June 29 -- The Wisconsin Democratic Party issued the following news:

The GOPYachtSale.com site has been updated to reflect a busy week of bidding.

First, former ALEC chairwoman and tea party state Senator Leah Vukmir said she's giving a run for U.S. Senate "prayerful consideration," and we know what that means. She's taking her time, shoring up big donors, like her buddies Charles and David Koch and Diane Hendricks, before she jumps into the yacht sale primary. Check out more at https://gopyachtsale.com/2017/06/28/leah-vukmir/

Then, millionaire Nicole Schneider dropped out of the bidding war and is no longer considering a run for Senate.

And yesterday the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel uncovered millionaire hedge fund manager Eric Hovde's tax history included paying $0 in taxes to the state of Wisconsin in 2015. While Hovde complained about the amount of taxes he paid in previous years, he did not address the goose egg in 2015. And the news that he avoided paying anything to the state in 2015 followed his comment on the Senate plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act saying, "I just got back from a trip from California and I don't know anything about it."

Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesman Brandon Weathersby commented, "If Eric Hovde is smart enough to get out of paying any taxes to the state of Wisconsin, it's shocking that he wasn't able to catch up on news of the Senate bill poised to strip health care access from 22 million people while in California."