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ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
31. Most of Koch spending is on negative attack ads.
Mon Sep 15, 2014, 02:21 PM
Sep 2014

On the Dem candidates or issues. I think their main goal is to keep as many people from voting as possible or at least for that candidate.
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The billionaire Koch brothers and their political network are planning to spend almost $300 million during the 2014 election cycle, some of which will go toward a renewed effort to combat unprecedented carbon regulations unveiled by the Obama administration last month.

According to The Daily Beast, industrialists Charles and David Koch will advance a new energy initiative this weekend at a California resort featuring Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and libertarian political scientist Charles Murray. While its scope isn't clear yet, the group will be spearheaded by the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, a 200-member organization that has funneled millions of dollars to various nonprofits in the Koch network.

The new push comes in the wake of proposed EPA regulations that would cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 30 percent. It also follows a February announcement from billionaire liberal investor Tom Steyer, a major advocate against the Keystone XL pipeline, that he will be undertaking his own $100 million initiative to make climate change a key issue in 2014.

Americans for Prosperity, the main political arm of the Kochs, is already planning a $125 million spending spree on other political projects across the country, according to Politico.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/14/koch-brothers-spending_n_5494963.html

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It's great to be very rich in the U.S. NT Trillo Sep 2014 #1
Everybody's your friend when you're rich. Octafish Sep 2014 #20
USA is number one! For billionaires and mega-millionaires. nt valerief Sep 2014 #2
Some believe it's our duty to make the world safe for them. Octafish Sep 2014 #21
And almost all of them are republicans bigdarryl Sep 2014 #3
or libertarian - which to me is the crazy wing of the crazy party rurallib Sep 2014 #5
ironically enough, there used to be a moderate wing to that party hfojvt Sep 2014 #12
I often wonder if many of those became blue-dog dems or rurallib Sep 2014 #13
Hillary was a Rockefeller Republican Laughing Mirror Sep 2014 #37
she worked for Goldwater IIRC rurallib Sep 2014 #41
Ha! Alice Walton big-time supporter of Hillary Clinton. closeupready Sep 2014 #4
That begs the question I haven't considered before: ChisolmTrailDem Sep 2014 #7
If you want a friend in Washington, buy a dog Demeter Sep 2014 #18
Those people don't frequent the same places I do. JEB Sep 2014 #6
Almost all are old, white men. chervilant Sep 2014 #8
Neither did the Koch Bros or Donald Trump geardaddy Sep 2014 #9
Except here's a news flash: Sam Walton sucked also. HughBeaumont Sep 2014 #35
Not initially... chervilant Sep 2014 #36
Billionaires ought to be taxed out of existence. hunter Sep 2014 #10
+several brazillion Demeter Sep 2014 #17
^^This!^^ BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #30
A perfect analogy. hifiguy Sep 2014 #34
"control everything" hfojvt Sep 2014 #11
Lenin declared that “A few hundred multi-millionaires and millionaires OnyxCollie Sep 2014 #14
that must have been hfojvt Sep 2014 #15
You mentioned Pete Peterson, OnyxCollie Sep 2014 #23
I'm halfway between you and the OP. It definitely is not 'control' but there is heavy influence stevenleser Sep 2014 #19
That's a reasonable number of targets Demeter Sep 2014 #16
vs. the police forces they've militarized? moondust Sep 2014 #28
Oh, they did. It's just that they were outnumbered Demeter Sep 2014 #38
Donald Trump is a Billionaire? Says who ?? flying-skeleton Sep 2014 #22
A number of those persons support some progressive causes JPZenger Sep 2014 #24
You need a better example. OnyxCollie Sep 2014 #25
serving as a neolib in a neolib's neolib Cabinet is not "progressive" nor "giving something back" MisterP Sep 2014 #33
Penny gave herself back all the cash she put into Obama's campaign Demeter Sep 2014 #39
K&R Cleita Sep 2014 #26
Kochs probably spend more than all others COMBINED. ErikJ Sep 2014 #27
What amazes me the Koch money is an outright personal buy for influence in the Political Elite. gordianot Sep 2014 #29
Most of Koch spending is on negative attack ads. ErikJ Sep 2014 #31
Brookings can't convince me those other billionaires aren't also buying senators valerief Sep 2014 #32
Marc Andreessen is one of the biggest pigs walking. HughBeaumont Sep 2014 #40
George Carlin was right. It's a big club and we're not in it. Initech Sep 2014 #42
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