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C Moon

(13,737 posts)
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:00 AM Mar 2016

The Koch Brothers have been creepily quiet in this primary...

I guess they're waiting to see how they can spin their little webs, once the GOP has decided on a candidate.
Either that, or they are setting up their scurvy little spiders elsewhere: the senate and house races.

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C Moon

(13,737 posts)
3. Agreed. But usually we hear about their focus. I haven't heard anything this election.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:11 AM
Mar 2016
 

HooptieWagon

(17,064 posts)
2. They poured a boatload of money down the sewer with Walker.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:10 AM
Mar 2016

Might be a bit gunshy, and just backing House and Senate candidates for the time being.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
5. They probably have to wonder what 900 million clams have bought them already?
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:40 AM
Mar 2016

Some dumb rich guys.

hay rick

(9,719 posts)
6. If I was them...
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 01:51 AM
Mar 2016

I would work on shrouding my activities more carefully. One of the great mysteries of our gun-crazy times is that nobody has bothered to exterminate the Koch roaches. I expect they have had the same thought.

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)
9. They announced last year that they were going to concentrate on local and state races.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 02:30 AM
Mar 2016

Which is extremely dangerous given the track record of the 3rd-Way and DWS. I doubt they are watching.

Wounded Bear

(64,637 posts)
11. It's like when you send your kids to their room...
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 03:39 AM
Mar 2016

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if it's too quiet, you know they're up to something.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
13. According to this Story, the Kochs are lining up behind Rubio...;.
Tue Mar 1, 2016, 05:38 PM
Mar 2016
BOMBSHELL: Ted Cruz Makes Plan To DROP OUT OF THE RACE!

Read more: http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/breaking-senator-ted-cruz-makes-plan-to-drop-out-of-the-race/#ixzz41gpAINfZ
This is unprecedented, but Cruz has to be well aware that the political establishment is lining up behind Rubio. Fox News has a pro-Rubio tilt, and the powerful Koch brothers just sent a number of their top operatives to Team Rubio in hopes of defeating Trump during a contentious convention fight.

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