The party had about $142,000 in debt at the end of March, according to federal campaign finance filings.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel first reported the state party’s problems with debt based off a leaked version of an earlier draft of the report. That report, according to the newspaper, showed the party went so far in debt it missed payments to insurers and accrued almost $600 a month in interest on a maxed-out credit card.

The more recent version of the report the Republican Party provided to the State Journal does not include details of the party’s missed payments.

Instead, the version says that while “the party was accruing debt by financing campaign expenditures, it was also accruing debt by not paying its own bills.”

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The report says there was an unsatisfactory effort to inform party leadership about party debt, and that “questions about finances were deflected by pointing to a positive cash balance” the party held.