Billionaire Koch brothers attack Beto O'Rourke... and Ted Cruz

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON -- Groups affiliated with the billionaire Koch brothers —better known for their history of bankrolling Republican candidates — are taking the unusual step of knocking both of Texas’s Senate hopefuls in ads launched this week.

The LIBRE Initiative, a Koch-backed group aimed at engaging Latino voters, launched mail ads Thursday urging Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, to get behind a DACA solution the Kochs want, but that the senator has vehemently opposed.

Meanwhile, a different Koch group, Americans for Prosperity, sent out postcards criticizing Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, for supporting Congress’s sweeping spending bill, which the group says was full of wasteful spending.

A spokesman for the Koch network declined to share what the group was spending on the ads. Both are part of larger, nationwide mail campaigns that target lawmakers from both parties.

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[flamin lib]

1. Suppress the vote. Kill top if the ticket turnout

And kill down ticket turnout. Meanwhile old white Republican men will walk through fire to vote straight ticket.

Crazy like a fox.

[Gothmog]

2. Who is surprised by this?

Of course the kochs would attack Beto