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2 Aug 2011

Wisconsin Dems file complaint over ‘Koch brothers-funded scheme to suppress votes’

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin filed a complaint on Tuesday seeking to stop what it called a Koch brothers-funded scheme to suppress Democratic votes in upcoming Republican recall elections.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin filed a complaint on Tuesday seeking to stop what it called a Koch brothers-funded...
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15 Aug 2012

The alliance that killed the Kansas moderate

The political decimation of the moderate Republican in Kansas has been getting a lot of national press. The showdown has been seen as inevitable since the election of Kansas first radically conservative Governor. So how did the state of Kathleen Sebelius and Nancy Kassebaum turn into the state of Brownbackistan? It is hard to fathom, especially in light of Governor Brownback s dismal polling. The following is from Kansas political scientist Dr. H Edward Flentje.
The political decimation of the moderate Republican in Kansas has been getting a lot of national press. The showdown has...
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31 May 2012

GOP groups plan record $1 billion blitz

Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives - including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November s elections for the White House and control of Congress, according to officials familiar with the groups internal operations.
Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives - including Karl...
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1 Aug 2012

Kochs Take Tip From Soros Investing in Voter Registration

The door-knockers wearing matching T- shirts and carrying electronic tablets loaded with maps and survey scripts fanned out on a recent evening across Hillsborough County, a Florida enclave that has backed the winning presidential candidate in each of the last three elections
The door-knockers wearing matching T- shirts and carrying electronic tablets loaded with maps and survey scripts fanned...
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30 Jun 2012

Trump, Koch brothers among megadonors looking down-ticket

Conservative megadonors Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers and Donald Trump aren t stopping with their efforts to swing the presidential election. Now, they re shoveling cash into down-ticket races. Their big checks have helped state-focused GOP groups more than double the cash haul of their Democratic counterparts and open up another front that could help Mitt Romney beat President Barack Obama.
Conservative megadonors Sheldon Adelson, the Koch brothers and Donald Trump aren t stopping with their efforts to swing...
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15 Jun 2012

Inside the Koch World convention

Many of the dozens of rich conservative invitees are expected to write huge checks to a pool of cash distributed among Koch-approved groups, potentially boosting the Kochs 2012 spending plan beyond their historic $395 million goal. And it s also a chance for the Kochs to show off their increasingly robust political machine, including a growing voter database project called Themis that played a major role in conservatives recent efforts in Wisconsin and in which POLITICO has learned Koch operatives have discussed investing $20 million.
Many of the dozens of rich conservative invitees are expected to write huge checks to a pool of cash distributed among...
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24 Apr 2012

Koch Industries, lightning rod in American politics, donates to Tim Knopp’s legislative race

The firm for the first time is reaching into an Oregon legislative race by giving $5,000 to former House Majority Leader Tim Knopp for his primary race against Sen. Chris Telfer, R-Bend. Koch Industries does have a direct interest in Oregon: it owns Georgia-Pacific, which was once headquartered in Portland and still has nine facilities with more than 2,200 employees in the state. But, according to the secretary of state's campaign-finance database, this is the first time Koch Industries has given money to a legislative candidate here (at least going back to 2007, which is when the database was established).
The firm for the first time is reaching into an Oregon legislative race by giving $5,000 to former House Majority Leader...
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2 Oct 2012

Arkansas: A Koch brothers case study

When the history of the influence of money in the 2012 election is written, Arkansas may be an interesting case study. Despite the focus on the flood of money unleashed by the Citizens United decision on the presidential and congressional races, some of the more lasting results may be felt at the local level. There is a rule in political spending: the lower the category of interest a race holds for the voters, the more influence money can have. A voter considering a presidential or senate candidate will have multiple sources of information and may have a long history of regular voting at that level of the ballot. But what about as they move further down ballot? How many people know who their state legislator is, or their county supervisor, or their local judges? How many care?
When the history of the influence of money in the 2012 election is written, Arkansas may be an interesting case study....
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4 Aug 2011

WI Dems have filed complaints against Alberta Darling alleging multiple felonies.

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin today filed complaints in multiple jurisdictions alleging that state Sen. Alberta Darling has committed multiple felonies as part of a collusion and obstruction conspiracy. The complaints also name the corporate front group Americans For Prosperity, Wisconsin Family Action, Wisconsin Right to Life and the lobbying arm of for-profit education corporations, the so-called American Federation for Children.
The Democratic Party of Wisconsin today filed complaints in multiple jurisdictions alleging that state Sen. Alberta...
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3 Jun 2012

Koch influence present in school lawsuit

Koch-funded groups recently helped push through historic tax cuts in Kansas. This week, they will battle against public schools seeking more funding. Fifty-four school districts are taking the state to court to try to recover funding that was cut by state officials during the recession. The trial, which starts Monday before a three-judge panel in the Shawnee County Courthouse, could take a month.
Koch-funded groups recently helped push through historic tax cuts in Kansas. This week, they will battle against public...
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20 Oct 2012

When plutocrats bullied voters

The Koch brothers and David Siegel aren't the only billionaires putting pressure on their employees to elect Mitt. Across America, this divide between the superrich and everyone else has become a yawning chasm that studies indicate may stifle jobs and growth for years to come. At no time in modern history has the top one hundredth of one percent owned more of our wealth or paid so low a tax rate. But in neither of the two presidential debates so far has the vastness of this astounding inequality gap been discussed. Not by Mitt Romney, who is the embodiment of the predatory world of financial capitalism, and not even by Barack Obama, whose party once fought for working men and women against the economic royalists.
The Koch brothers and David Siegel aren't the only billionaires putting pressure on their employees to elect Mitt....
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7 Aug 2012

Koch Brother Will Be Official Romney Delegate At Republican National Convention

David Koch will be an official delegate for Mitt Romney at this month s Republican National Convention and will represent the New York Republican Party, according to National Journal. Koch, an oil billionaire currently ranked number five on the Forbes U.S. billionaire list, has pledged along with his brother Charles to spend $100 million in their effort to oust President Obama this November.
David Koch will be an official delegate for Mitt Romney at this month s Republican National Convention and will...
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3 Feb 2012

Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama

At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about 250 to 300 other individuals pledged approximately $100 million to defeat President Obama in the 2012 elections. A source who was in the room when the pledges were made told The Huffington Post that, specifically, Charles Koch pledged $40 million and David pledged $20 million.
At a private three-day retreat in California last weekend, conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch and about...
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11 Oct 2012

The 6 billionairs who want Romney to be president

The following 1 percent wonders are doing just fine under Obama, but since their worldview is largely restricted to an obsession with their marginal tax rate, they can t refrain from denouncing the president and thinking of new ways to thwart his re-election bid. The Romney men desperately want to see the first financier president, a man after their own cold hearts.
The following 1 percent wonders are doing just fine under Obama, but since their worldview is largely restricted to an...
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1 Oct 2012

Koch Brothers Set Sights on Florida Supreme Court Justices

Besides backing from the Florida GOP, a conservative effort to oust three judges from the Florida Supreme Court is getting big bucks from Americans for Prosperity, a national right-wing group heavily funded by the billionaire Koch brothers.
Besides backing from the Florida GOP, a conservative effort to oust three judges from the Florida Supreme Court is...
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27 Aug 2012

Meet the Man Who’s Trying to Force Paul Ryan to Look for a Real Job

Once again, Koch brothers cash will face off against a people-powered campaign in Wisconsin this November. The race is for a House seat in the first Congressional District, a seat now held by Paul Ryan. His challenger - the first serious challenge he's faced in 14 years in Congress - is Rob Zerban, a restaurateur and County Commissioner.
Once again, Koch brothers cash will face off against a people-powered campaign in Wisconsin this November. The race is...
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9 Nov 2011

Teamster Nation AZ senate president and Koch-brother-lover recalled!

Ohio's thumping defeat of SB5 was a big loss for the Koch brothers, who poured money into the lobbying group that wrote the legislation. The Koch-funded group Americans for Prosperity also paid for misleading pro-SB5 ads that twisted the words of an Ohio great-grandmother.
Ohio's thumping defeat of SB5 was a big loss for the Koch brothers, who poured money into the lobbying group that wrote...
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19 Oct 2012

Koch-backed activists use power of data in drive to oust Obama from White House

Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party-aligned group part-funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, is building a state-of-the-art digital ground operation in Ohio and other vital battleground states to spread its anti-Obama message to voters who could decide the outcome of the presidential election.
Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party-aligned group part-funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, is building a...
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15 Oct 2012

Koch Sends Pro-Romney Mailing to 45,000 Employees While Stifling Workplace Political Speech

No longer is it good enough for the Kochs to spend unlimited money influencing elections. They are also touting candidates to employees while creating policies that have a chilling effect on employees' freedom of speech.
No longer is it good enough for the Kochs to spend unlimited money influencing elections. They are also touting...
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2 Dec 2011

Are the Koch brothers denying your vote?

Voter supression laws passed around the US will put ballot boxes out of reach of millions of americans eligible to vote, may of whom are people of color, physically disabled, students and seniros. The voting rights act gives you the authority to protect constitutional voting rights. We ask you to stop the Kochs and 21st century jim crow.
Voter supression laws passed around the US will put ballot boxes out of reach of millions of americans eligible to vote,...
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20 Sep 2012

Kochs Send Millions to Silence California Workers with Prop. 32

Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are dumping hundreds of millions of dollars in this year s elections on the national and state levels. Last week it was reported that the American Future Fund (AFF), a front group for corporate special interests that s linked to the Kochs, dropped $4 million into the effort to pass California s Prop. 32.
Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch could be the poster boys for the big money special interests that are...
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17 Aug 2012

Koch Brothers Behind Paul Ryan as VP Choice

I've waited a few days to lay out my analysis of the selection of Paul Ryan for the VP slot on the Romney ticket. Unlike politicos like Dick Morris who bad-mouths the selection privately and shills for it publicly, I'll tell you what I really think. My sources tell me David Koch played a key role in Ryan's selection and that Koch's wife Julia had been quietly lobbying for Ryan. The selection was cemented at the July 22nd fundraiser Koch held for Romney at the former's sumptuous Hamptons estate.
I've waited a few days to lay out my analysis of the selection of Paul Ryan for the VP slot on the Romney ticket. Unlike...
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15 Oct 2012

Koch Industries, other CEOs warn employees of layoffs if Obama is reelected

In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that "many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences" of voting for President Obama and other Democrats in the 2012 elections, a list of conservative candidates the company's political action committee endorses and a pair of editorials: one, by David Koch, supporting Mitt Romney, and the other, by Charles Koch, condemning Obama.
In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that "many of our...
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15 Oct 2012

Koch Industries, other CEOs warn employees of layoffs if Obama is reelected

In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that "many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences" of voting for President Obama and other Democrats in the 2012 elections, a list of conservative candidates the company's political action committee endorses and a pair of editorials: one, by David Koch, supporting Mitt Romney, and the other, by Charles Koch, condemning Obama.
In it was a letter, dated Oct. 1, from Koch Industries president Dave Robertson implicitly warning that "many of our...
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25 Sep 2012

Progressive Groups Say Koch Brothers are Attacking Rhode Island

Activists, union leaders and concerned citizens took to Kennedy Plaza Monday to warn that a national agenda put forth by billionaires Charles and David Koch will set the country and Rhode Island back if voters don t rise to the challenge this November. At a rally attended by roughly 30 Rhode Islanders, a group known as Patriot Majority explained what it calls the Koch brothers' "greed agenda," which includes advocating for tax breaks for the extraordinarily wealthy while cutting social programs.
Activists, union leaders and concerned citizens took to Kennedy Plaza Monday to warn that a national agenda put forth by...
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17 Aug 2011

Koch Brothers Fund Bogus Study Bashing Offshore Wind in New Jersey

Not content with the efforts of their group Americans For Prosperity to convince Gov. Chris Christie to derail New Jersey s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, the Koch brothers have also ramped up their efforts to ensure New Jersey s air quality continues to live up to its historic reputation. Last month, the Koch-subsidized Beacon Hill Institute, or BHI, released the latest in a series of slanted cost-benefit analyses of offshore wind energy.
Not content with the efforts of their group Americans For Prosperity to convince Gov. Chris Christie to derail New...
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6 Mar 2011

Koch Industries secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine

The US oil company Koch Industries has donated nearly US$48 million to organisations spreading anti-global warming propaganda. These findings prove environmentalists suspicions that there is a well-funded opposition to the science of climate change, says a report by Greenpeace.
The US oil company Koch Industries has donated nearly US$48 million to organisations spreading anti-global warming...
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11 Oct 2012

Trick Or Treat A Koch Brother Dresses Up As An Environmentalist In His Fight Against Cape Wind

Yesterday, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound - a group established by Koch and his cronies to wage war on Cape Wind, the first offshore wind farm proposed in U.S. waters - dredged up an old lawsuit against the project. The frivolous nature of this latest tilt at the project s offshore windmills is enough to make even Don Quixote blush.
Yesterday, the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound - a group established by Koch and his cronies to wage war on Cape...
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24 Oct 2012

Koch Brothers Produce Counterfeit Climate Report to Deceive Congress

An upcoming junk study from a Koch-funded think tank that has taken on the format and appearance of a truly scientific report from the US Government, but is loaded with lies and misrepresentation of actual climate change science. The false report is a tentacle of the Kochtopus - with oil and industrial billionaires Charles and David Koch at the head.
An upcoming junk study from a Koch-funded think tank that has taken on the format and appearance of a truly scientific...
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2 Oct 2012

Don’t Let the Koch Brothers Buy Our Elections

"Greedy Lying Bastards" investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem that is placing us on the brink of disaster. The film details the people and organizations casting doubt on climate science and claims that human behavior has no affect on greenhouse gases. Mr. Rosebraugh, a political activist, documents the impact of an industry that has continually put profits before people, waged a campaign of lies designed to thwart measures to combat climate change, used its clout to minimize infringing regulations and undermined the political process in the U.S. and abroad.
"Greedy Lying Bastards" investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the...
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26 Aug 2011

Koch Industries Fights Chemical Plant Safety Measures

Among the Koch Industries lobbying crew's many agenda items-climate change denial, school segregation, a right wing media takeover-is the company's fight against legislation that would raise US chemical plant safety standards to protect against potential terrorist attacks capable of harming millions of Americans.
Among the Koch Industries lobbying crew's many agenda items-climate change denial, school segregation, a right wing...
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29 Nov 2011

Kasich, Koch and Big-Industry Bucks: Why Ohio Is the Next Fracking Frontier

Fracking opponents in southern Ohio won a victory last week when the United States Forest Service (USFS) withdrew more than 3,000 acres of public lands from a federal oil and gas lease sale scheduled for December 7, 2012. The USFS announced that it needed more time to review the potential effects of fracking after receiving petitions and letters from local leaders who used the old-fashioned method of collecting signatures to catch the attention of government officials.
Fracking opponents in southern Ohio won a victory last week when the United States Forest Service (USFS) withdrew more...
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11 Mar 2011

Watchdog Urges Dane County District Attorney and Government Accountability Board Investigation into Walker’s Political Solicitation from ‘David Koch’

National campaign finance watchdog Public Campaign Action Fund sent a letter to the Dane County (WI) District Attorney and Wisconsin s Government Accountability Board (GAB) today urging that they open concurrent investigations into Gov. Scott Walker s (R-Wisc.) possible double violations of state campaign finance and ethics statutes.
National campaign finance watchdog Public Campaign Action Fund sent a letter to the Dane County (WI) District Attorney...
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15 Aug 2012

In Ad, voters break with Obama

Americans for Prosperity, the nonprofit political advocacy group co-founded by the conservative Koch brothers, is airing new ads explicitly attacking President Barack Obama with ex-Obama voters expressing "buyers remorse."
Americans for Prosperity, the nonprofit political advocacy group co-founded by the conservative Koch brothers, is airing...
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29 May 2012

$55 million for conservative campaigns – but where did it come from

The Center to Protect Patient Rights, is an organization with ties to Charles and David H. Koch, the billionaire brothers who bankroll a number of conservative organizations. During the 2010 midterm election, the center sent more than $55 million to 26 GOP-allied groups, tax filings show, funding opaque outfits such as American Future Fund, 60 Plus and Americans for Job Security that were behind a coordinated campaign against Democratic congressional candidates.
The Center to Protect Patient Rights, is an organization with ties to Charles and David H. Koch, the billionaire...
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22 Jun 2011

How the Koch Brothers Mess With the Texas Environment

To distort the information base from which public policy is derived, the Koch brothers have created and/or helped fund foundations and "think tanks" like the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Institute for Policy Innovation, and the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
To distort the information base from which public policy is derived, the Koch brothers have created and/or helped fund...
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4 Feb 2012

Billionaires Channel Millions to Think Tanks

Just as big money is transforming politics, it s also helping to reshape American think tanks. Members of the Forbes 400 have poured millions of dollars into research organizations that fit their social, political and/or business concerns. The conservative Heritage Foundation has received funding from libertarian Charles G. Koch, CEO of Koch Industries, as well as from Richard Mellon Scaife, owner of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and heir to the Mellon banking fortune.
Just as big money is transforming politics, it s also helping to reshape American think tanks. Members of the Forbes 400...
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28 Oct 2012

A Hostile Takeover of Our Country Treasonous, noxious, thieving, tyrannical

American democracy is under assault. In one super-PAC alone, Karl Rove and the Enron grifter Ed Gillespie, have assembled $200 million from big polluters and Wall Street moguls to buy the 2012 election. Two of the Koch Brothers, Charles and David, pledged $130 million to elect candidates who favor unrestrained corporate profiteering. The senators and congressmen they fund and elect are not representing the United States - they are representing Koch and its oil industry cronies, Big Pharma, and the Wall Street banksters currently mounting a hostile takeover of our government.
American democracy is under assault. In one super-PAC alone, Karl Rove and the Enron grifter Ed Gillespie, have...
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1 Mar 2012

Koch Brothers sue Cato Institute, president

The billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch filed a lawsuit Wednesday for control of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington. The lawsuit exposes a power struggle for one of Washington s premiere policy centers, which has been funded by millions in contributions from the Koch brothers foundations since its founding in 1974
The billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch filed a lawsuit Wednesday for control of the Cato Institute, a...
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13 Jul 2011

“Running on empty” Tour Lands in Hell This Thursday

The Americans for Prosperity Foundation's Running On Empty tour will arrive in the tiny Putnam Township hamlet of Hell this week. AFP Michigan Director Scott Hagerstrom says the tour will have several stops and aims to warn taxpayers about how President Obama s regulatory and energy polices are causing skyrocketing energy costs, particularly prices at the gas pump.
The Americans for Prosperity Foundation's Running On Empty tour will arrive in the tiny Putnam Township hamlet of Hell...
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10 Aug 2011

Americans For Prosperity ‘Running On Empty’ Rallies Are, Well, Running On Empty

Americans For Prosperity, the Tea Party astroturf group "founded and funded by infamous GOP rainmakers Charles and David Koch, rolled into Jacksonville Tuesday, and only roughly 15 people showed up" to their "Running on Empty" tour.
Americans For Prosperity, the Tea Party astroturf group "founded and funded by infamous GOP rainmakers Charles and David...
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5 Mar 2012

Cato Senior Fellow: Koch Brothers Want To Take Over Cato Because ‘Cato Wasn’t Doing Enough To Defeat’ Obama

As ThinkProgress reported last week, energy barons Charles and David Koch recently filed a lawsuit attempting to seize majority control over the libertarian Cato Institute. According to Jerry Taylor, a senior fellow at Cato, this effort is part of a longstanding effort by the Kochs to transform Cato from a warehouse for radical libertarianism into something more purely concerned with electoral politics
As ThinkProgress reported last week, energy barons Charles and David Koch recently filed a lawsuit attempting to seize...
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9 Nov 2011

Koch Brother Front Group Americans For Prosperity Pushes Smear Campaign Against Me ThinkProgress

Levi Russell, Americans for Prosperity Director of Public Affairs, contributed to a blog post calling me a liar. Russell, however, erroneously quoted the conversation and has refused to issue a correction. Yesterday, Americans for Prosperity, the corporate front group founded and financed by the Koch Brothers, posted a blog post titled: "Lee Fang Lies."
Levi Russell, Americans for Prosperity Director of Public Affairs, contributed to a blog post calling me a liar....
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29 Sep 2011

See Charles Koch Flip Flop on Social Security [VIDEO]

Charles and David Koch built an distortion machine to do their dirty work for them. Through think tanks, academic research, political donations and conservative media, the Koch brothers have steamrolled Americans into believing things that are false and into supporting policies that benefit the Koch brothers' profits.
Charles and David Koch built an distortion machine to do their dirty work for them. Through think tanks, academic...
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30 Jan 2012

Koch-Funded Group Paying Tea Partiers to Collect Voters’ Personal Info

Tea party activists have long disputed liberal charges that their movement is simply the product of a corporate Astroturf campaign designed to attack President Obama. For the most part, they've been right. But a new effort to recruit members and gather voter data by Americans for Prosperity, a conservative advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers, may serve to revive those old claims.
Tea party activists have long disputed liberal charges that their movement is simply the product of a corporate...
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27 Jun 2011

In ‘Secret Video’ Gov. Kasich Thanks Koch Brothers Union Busting Front Group Americans For Prosperity For Their Support

In an "unlisted video" which Gov. Kasich recorded using state resources, he tells the Koch Industries astroturf group Americans For Prosperity "... in the four months that I've been Governor, we've accomplished a lot in Ohio... in all of these efforts the strong support of Americans for Prosperity has made a really big difference. ...it's so important that Ohio's fighters for freedom, the grassroots leaders of Americans for Prosperity, continue to lend their support to the effort to get Ohio back on track."
In an "unlisted video" which Gov. Kasich recorded using state resources, he tells the Koch Industries astroturf group...
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3 Sep 2011

Voter Suppression

Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has been accused of attempting to suppress Democratic voter turnout in the Wisconsin Senate recall elections.
Americans for Prosperity, the conservative advocacy group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has been...
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9 Jul 2011

Koch Industries Acting Like It’s Never Given Money to the Democrats Before

If you've been listening to the Democratic Party and liberal activists over the past couple of years, then you've heard that Charles and David Koch, the wealthy industrialist brothers who have placed their inestimable financial muscle behind conservative causes and candidates, are democracy's rapists. So it may seem a bit strange that Washington senator Patty Murray, the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, recently solicited Koch Industries for a donation. An executive for Koch Industries, Philip Ellender, replied to her with an indignant letter, which he helpfully posted online as well:
If you've been listening to the Democratic Party and liberal activists over the past couple of years, then you've heard...
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25 Mar 2011

Dems Defend Taking Koch Money From Same PAC That Gave to Scott Walker

Another note on the Koch money funding Democratic campaigns. While Harry Reid and the DSCC try to raise money off the liberal animus against the Koch brothers, the DSCC and a handful of Democratic senators have given no indication that they are willing to give back the thousands of dollars their campaigns received from KOCHPAC, the political arm of Koch Industries.
Another note on the Koch money funding Democratic campaigns. While Harry Reid and the DSCC try to raise money off the...
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24 May 2011

Professors to Koch Brothers: Take Your Green Back

Times are tough for state-funded colleges like Florida State University. After four years of budget trimming, FSU now faces an additional $19 million in cuts and a $40 million deficit. So it's an inopportune moment to raise a stink over private donations of $1.5 million made three years ago.
Times are tough for state-funded colleges like Florida State University. After four years of budget trimming, FSU now...
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5 Aug 2012

Koch Brothers, GOP Mega Donors, Help Bankroll Religious Conservative’s 2012 Efforts

A conservative group led by longtime political activist Ralph Reed has budgeted $10 million for a major 2012 election push to turn out the religious right and block a second term for President Barack Obama, a top executive with his organization told the Huffington Post
A conservative group led by longtime political activist Ralph Reed has budgeted $10 million for a major 2012 election...
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27 Sep 2011

Chris Christie backers: David Koch, Kenneth Langone (Home Depot), Charles Schwab, hedge fund managers,…

The "Draft Christie committee" is a group of very wealthy backers who want Chris Christie to run for president. One of those involved is David Koch of the Koch family; the Kochs are one of the main stringpullers on the tea parties. They also fund loose borders advocates like Reason Magazine, and David Koch joined with George Soros and gave $10 million to the illegal immigration-supporting American Civil Liberties Union. That was to fight the Patriot Act, but it also freed up money that the ACLU has used to hamper immigration enforcement.
The "Draft Christie committee" is a group of very wealthy backers who want Chris Christie to run for president. One of...
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1 Jul 2011

Foreign Company Admits Illegal Cash Donations to U.S. State Campaigns

A foreign subsidiary of U.S. corporate giant Koch Industries acknowledged making thousands of dollars in illegal contributions to state candidates between 2005 and 2009 and agreed to settle a case brought by the Federal Election Commission, the agency announced Friday.
A foreign subsidiary of U.S. corporate giant Koch Industries acknowledged making thousands of dollars in illegal...
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9 Nov 2011

Why the Koch Brothers and ALEC Don’t Want You to Vote

Today residents of Mississippi will decide whether voters must produce a government-issued ID in order to cast a ballot and voters in Maine will choose whether to keep or overturn a new law banning election day voter registration, which had previously been on the books since 1973. These votes occur amidst the backdrop of an unprecedented, Republican-led war on voting. - A key component of the GOP's campaign has been orchestrated by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which receives substantial funding from the Koch brothers.
Today residents of Mississippi will decide whether voters must produce a government-issued ID in order to cast a ballot...
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2 Oct 2012

Plutocracy 2012: Koch Brothers Organization Spending $1 Million To Buy The State Of Arkansas

Americans For Prosperity (AFP), the group founded and funded by the right-wing billionaires the Koch Brothers, has its sights set on Arkansas. Having just spent big in Kansas to unseat some of the state s last moderate Republicans, AFP is now looking to swing both the House and Senate in Arkansas to the Republican Party.
Americans For Prosperity (AFP), the group founded and funded by the right-wing billionaires the Koch Brothers, has its...
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5 Mar 2012

Koch brothers aren’t just buying elections – they’re investing big in anti-science think tanks

Koch Industries spent $40 million in the 2010 election cycle, but they've vowed to spend $100 million this year. That s not counting the money that goes to think tanks such as the Cato Institute or Americans for Prosperity to engineer research - such as making voters and decision-makers "suspect of science" - that could then help elect Republicans.
Koch Industries spent $40 million in the 2010 election cycle, but they've vowed to spend $100 million this year. That s...
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17 Oct 2011

Long Ties to Koch Brothers Key to Cain’s Campaign

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital. But Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity.
Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world...
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14 Jul 2011

Koch Industries Backing Bachmann For President

With a combined total of $35 million in campaign funds, Republican presidential candidates are still falling behind President Obama s whopping $86 million fundraising haul, a deficit that no doubt has some campaign managers stressed about their financial futures.
With a combined total of $35 million in campaign funds, Republican presidential candidates are still falling behind...
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19 Sep 2012

Activists Funded By Koch Brothers Plan Protest Against ‘Occupy Wall Street Mob’

An activist group founded by the notorious Koch brothers is holding a demonstration in Midtown tomorrow to voice its opposition to President Barack Obama s economic policies and to stand up to the "Occupy Wall Street mob," according to a press release.
An activist group founded by the notorious Koch brothers is holding a demonstration in Midtown tomorrow to voice its...
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5 Aug 2012

BEST Climate Change Study Supports Koch Gas Fracking Investments

The kicker is that BEST is partly funded by the Koch brothers, who have become notorious for their financial support of the "climate change denial machine." Hence the bombshell, and with it a lesson in the perils of corporate funding for scientific research. Or is it? Take a closer look at some of the Koch brothers energy investments and pair that with another BEST funder, and it s clear that the new study works in favor of the Koch interests, not against them.
The kicker is that BEST is partly funded by the Koch brothers, who have become notorious for their financial support of...
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11 Mar 2011

Who Really Speaks for American Business

Charles and David, the third and fourth richest men in America, first gained notoriety in the fall, when a remarkable expose by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker showed how they'd funded not only the Tea Party but also the hydra-headed campaign to undermine the science of global warming, all in the service of even more profit for their oil and gas business.
Charles and David, the third and fourth richest men in America, first gained notoriety in the fall, when a remarkable...
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28 Apr 2012

U.S. Republican Koch oil billionaires help fund the Fraser Institute. Why the Fraser Institute

So why are the Koch brothers in Canada and why have they selected the Fraser Institute to be the repository of their generosity? A trip to The Fraser Institute's website offers clues, if not answers. Fraser Institute Branding: Freedom, Prosperity, Choice Fraser's website and Facebook page boldly promote a conservative political agenda. And although the Fraser Institute claims to be "independent" and "non-partisan", the institute has been a connecting point for many leading conservatives in Canada.
So why are the Koch brothers in Canada and why have they selected the Fraser Institute to be the repository of their...
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3 Aug 2012

Pro-Romney independent group tied to billionaire Koch brothers readies $25M TV ad campaign

An independent group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says it s launching a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign in several general election battleground states. People familiar with the plans say Americans for Prosperity plans to spend about $25 million on the ads beginning next week and running into early September. The ads will run in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
An independent group supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says it s launching a multimillion-dollar...
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9 Mar 2011

Lee Fang: Front Groups, Covert Funding, Koch Brothers

Lee Fang from ThinkProgress joins us to talk about the hidden and indirect funding by the Koch brothers in Wisconsin and elsewhere, and reveals that a blogger who defends the Koch brothers also works for the law firm representing them.
Lee Fang from ThinkProgress joins us to talk about the hidden and indirect funding by the Koch brothers in Wisconsin and...
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2 Mar 2011

More On Koch-Style Libertarianism

Conservatives and libertarians are very defensive about Koch funding, but this is the sort of thing that grounds liberal suspicion. Bailey, the author of "Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science To Scare us To Death," is a former journalism fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. CEI, like Reason, is backed by the Kochs.
Conservatives and libertarians are very defensive about Koch funding, but this is the sort of thing that grounds liberal...
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15 Jul 2011

Michele Bachmann: The First 2012er to Get Koch Cash

The political action committee for the Kochs' massive conglomerate, Koch Industries, has also given generously to big-name conservative politicians throughout the country at both the federal and state level. But when it comes to the 2012 presidential race, the Kochs have been more selective with their giving, with only one presidential candidate so far benefiting from their largesse: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).
The political action committee for the Kochs' massive conglomerate, Koch Industries, has also given generously to...
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13 Jul 2011

Kochs back away from Democratic candidates

The Kochs - major Republican donors who have come under attack from the left in recent months - have donated to Democrats before, but since January their PAC has contributed only to West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin and four House campaigns:
The Kochs - major Republican donors who have come under attack from the left in recent months - have donated...
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24 Apr 2012

Bill Koch’s Company Donates Another $1 Million to Romney’s Super PAC

Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire who criticized his brothers' support of libertarian causes and has long escaped notice on the national political stage, is emerging as a major supporter of Mitt Romney. Huron Carbon, a subsidiary of Koch's West Palm Beach-based Oxbow Corp., donated $1 million to Romney's Restore Our Future "super PAC" last month. That brings Koch's Restore Our Future donations to a total of $2 million, including $750,000 Oxbow contributed last year and $250,000 Koch gave on his own.
Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire who criticized his brothers' support of libertarian causes and has long escaped...
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29 Jul 2011

How Shadowy Right-Wing Front Groups Engineered Our National Embrace Of Debt Reduction Over Job Creation

For the entire year, as a sluggish economy sputters by and states continue to struggle with falling revenue, the conversation in Congress has centered solely on spending reduction. Earlier this year, we witnessed looming government-showdown duels between competing spending reduction plans. Now with the debt ceiling debate, the only two options are a choice between a package of painful cuts and a package of deeply draconian cuts. There has been no lively discussion of new policy ideas for job creation, foreclosure mitigation, or how to spur demand, the key driver of economic recovery.
For the entire year, as a sluggish economy sputters by and states continue to struggle with falling revenue, the...
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8 Sep 2011

Chris Christie Lets Loose at Secret Koch Brothers Confab

"We know the answers. They're painful answers. We're going to have to reduce Medicare benefits. We're going to have to reduce Medicaid benefits. We're going to have to raise the Social Security age. We're going to have to do these things. We're going to have to cut all types of other government programs that some people in this room might like."
"We know the answers. They're painful answers. We're going to have to reduce Medicare benefits. We're going to have to...
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8 Mar 2011

Maddow: ‘Every time you turn over a political rock’ the Koch brothers are there

Last night on her eponymous show, Rachel Maddow explored the Koch brothers donations to Republican candidates like Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) and Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI), Americans for Prosperity and a variety of other causes that benefit their business. She noted that one of the recipients of their donations, Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), ran a xenophobic campaign against his Indian-American opponent and then opposed an online consumer product safety database that the Koch brothers opposed.
Last night on her eponymous show, Rachel Maddow explored the Koch brothers donations to Republican candidates like Sen....
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1 Mar 2012

Are the Koch Brothers Funding Rush Limbaugh

Just in time for the release of Brave New Foundation's new film, Koch Brothers Exposed, Rush Limbaugh has thrown in with Charles and David Koch in their letter war with Obama campaign manager Jim Messina. No surprise there; Rush has made his fortune defending the rich and powerful against the 99%. But does Rush actually have a vested interest in the Koch brothers' success?
Just in time for the release of Brave New Foundation's new film, Koch Brothers Exposed, Rush Limbaugh has thrown in with...
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4 Apr 2011

Leader Of Koch Front Group Is Behind Ads Supporting Wisconsin Justice David Prosser

As of last Friday, just three groups have spent nearly $1.4 million to keep Gov. Scott Walker s (R) ally David Prosser on the Wisconsin Supreme Court 40 percent more than Prosser s opponents have spent to defeat him. Moreover, new evidence unearthed by the Center for Media and Democracy suggests that Prosser s advantage comes from a familiar source
As of last Friday, just three groups have spent nearly $1.4 million to keep Gov. Scott Walker s (R) ally David Prosser...
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3 Apr 2011

Koch Brothers’ Heavy Hand Behind Anti-Kloppenburg Ad, Everything Else In Wisconsin

A shadowy group called Citizens for a Strong America (CSA) has run an TV ad against JoAnne Kloppenburg, a candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Said ad was recently evaluated by PolitiFact Wisconsin and was found to be "ridiculously false" and was thus given the dubious "Pants on Fire" rating
A shadowy group called Citizens for a Strong America (CSA) has run an TV ad against JoAnne Kloppenburg, a candidate for...
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2 Oct 2012

George Soros donates to democratic super pac hoping to-match the koch brothers

George Soros, the liberal billionaire and champion for liberal causes, has donated $1.5 million to three Democratic Super PACs. $1 million will go to Obama s Super PAC Priorities USA and $500,000 will go to two congressional PACs. That brings Soros total donations this year to $4.3 million. The NY Times reported that Soros made his contribution at a luncheon where donors committed to an additional $10 million in Democratic campaign financing.
George Soros, the liberal billionaire and champion for liberal causes, has donated $1.5 million to three Democratic...
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22 Oct 2011

Climate study, funded in part by conservative group, confirms global warming

A new climate study shows that since the mid-1950s, global average temperatures over land have risen by 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit), confirming previous studies that have found a climate that has been warming - in fits and starts - since around 1900.
A new climate study shows that since the mid-1950s, global average temperatures over land have risen by 0.9 degrees...
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1 Apr 2011

Koch-Funded Climate Skeptic’s Own Data Confirms Warming

This week, a climate hearing was held in the US House of Reps. Six 'experts' on climate were brought in, but only three were scientists. And it turns out that one of the GOP's star witnesses -- a scientist who's been vocal in his skepticism of global temperature records, the physicist Richard Muller, of University of California, Berkeley, didn't quite help them disprove climate change. Quite the opposite, in fact.
This week, a climate hearing was held in the US House of Reps. Six 'experts' on climate were brought in, but only three...
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31 Oct 2011

Richard Muller, Koch brothers-funded scientist, declares global warming is real

One of the most prominent global warming skeptics is changing is his tune. Richard Muller, a physicist who spent two years trying to see if mainstream climate scientists were wrong about the earth's climate changes, determined that they were right, the Associated Press reported. His findings showed the temperature had risen about 1.6 degrees since the 1950s.
One of the most prominent global warming skeptics is changing is his tune. Richard Muller, a physicist who spent two...
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1 Jul 2011

Top Climate Change-Denying Scientist Found to Be on Exxon, Koch Brothers’ Payroll

Dr. Willie Soon is certainly entitled to his theory that global warming is caused by solar variations rather than CO2, especially given his field of study within astrophysics - Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences. But getting paid $1 million in grants by the Koch Brothers, Exxon and a fleet of other energy industry giants makes Soone a stooge.
Dr. Willie Soon is certainly entitled to his theory that global warming is caused by solar variations rather than CO2,...
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31 Oct 2011

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Who’s behind the ‘information attacks’ on climate scientists?

This week, in a courtroom in Prince William County, Virginia, a hearing will take place that could have implications for the privacy rights of scientists at colleges and universities across the country. It's part of a lawsuit brought by the American Tradition Institute, a free-market think tank part of a broader network of groups with close ties to energy interests that have long fought greenhouse gas regulation. Our investigation also finds that ATI has connections with the Koch brothers, Art Pope and other conservative donors seeking to expand their political influence.
This week, in a courtroom in Prince William County, Virginia, a hearing will take place that could have implications for...
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9 Nov 2011

Dirty Oil and Dirty Politics Make Interesting Bedfellows; 2012 Documentary Film Exposes Koch Brothers

The documentary "Greedy Lying Bastards," set for release in 2012, reports Koch Industries and Exxon Oil have each spent nearly $25 million to dispel claims of global warming. It is tough to right the wrongs of the fossil fuel industry when it wields so much influence over energy and environmental policies in the U.S. and around the world.
The documentary "Greedy Lying Bastards," set for release in 2012, reports Koch Industries and Exxon Oil have each spent...
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20 Oct 2011

Herman Cain and the Kochs

The Associated Press broke an interesting story recently noting that Herman Cain, who has portrayed himself as an outsider to politics, has in fact worked closely since 2005 with Americans for Prosperity, a corporate front group organized and funded in large part by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, long-time financiers of America s conservative movement.
The Associated Press broke an interesting story recently noting that Herman Cain, who has portrayed himself as an...
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