In 2008 and just a freshman at Sheboygan South High School, Asher Heimermann raised $13,780 from 337 people for Barack Obama's presidential campaign. Despite false information, 100% of the contributions went directly to the campaign since the fundraising page is hosted on barackobama.com, the campaign's official website.
He was prohibited by law from contributing to the campaign himself but he became one of the campaign’s most successful “micro-bundlers" by fundraising using the campaign's website.
At just 21 years old, Asher created a GoFundMe page to collect donations for Wisconsin State Trooper Trevor Casper's family after he was shot and killed in a Fond du Lac shoot out in March 2015. In just one month, 804 people donated a total of $42,550 surpassing Asher's goal of $20,000 for the family. The donations collected were transferred to Kiel Police Chief David Funkhouser to ensure the funds made it to the family.
Asher photographs motor vehicle accidents, fire scenes, crime scenes, police cars, fire trucks, public safety events and training for Incident Response. As a member of the media, Asher photographs incidents from public sidewalks and roads without interfering with the operations of first responders. Asher has a good working relationship with area fire and police departments. Asher does not remove pictures taken in public of first responders for any reason whatsoever and does not demand or request money for the removal of such content. Television stations and newspaper do the same exact thing Asher does, cover the news -- photographing and filming incident scenes.
What Asher does is completely legal and Asher is not the only photograph in the State of Wisconsin or in the United States who photographs incidents as they unfold. There is OnScene, LOUDLABS, CapturedNews, countless fire photographers and television stations and newspapers. Beyond photographing incidents, Asher photographs fire departments' drills, school programs, promotions and events because he supports what firefighters, paramedics, first responders and law enforcement officers do
