Neither Charles nor David Koch fund the Tea Parties. They are involved with and support an organization, which in turn has involvement with some Tea Party members. Koch Industries encourages all citizens, including Tea Party members, to engage in civil discourse concerning the important public policy issues in the United States, most importantly the grave financial issues presented by the rampant overspending and growth of government in the past 10 years.

For many months now, your colleagues in the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee leadership have engaged in a series of disparagements and ad hominem attacks about us, apparently as part of a concerted political and fundraising strategy. Just recently, Senator Reid wrote in a DSCC fundraising letter that Republicans are trying to "force through their extreme agenda faster than you can say 'Koch Brothers.'"

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