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  • Koch Brothers to spend $889 mil on 2016

    Posted by btomba_77 on January 26, 2015 at 6:41 pm

    [link=http://politicalwire.com/2015/01/26/koch-brothers-will-spend-889-million-2016-elections/]http://politicalwire.com/…illion-2016-elections/[/link]
     

     
    The Koch brothers political operation intends to spend $889 million in the run-up to the 2016 elections,[link=http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/koch-2016-spending-goal-114604.html#ixzz3PxqaK48M]Politico[/link] reports.
    The spending goal, shared with donors at a Monday morning session at the Rancho Mirage Ritz Carlton, reflects the sweeping ambition of a private conservative political network that in many ways has eclipsed the power of the official Republican Party. The $889 million spending goal dwarfs the $404 million the Republican National Committee spent during the 2012 election and the $188 million it dropped during last years midterm campaign.

    kayla.meyer_144 replied 3 years, 11 months ago 6 Members · 16 Replies
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  • kaldridgewv2211

    Member
    January 27, 2015 at 9:32 am

    I was listening to some talk radio about this on the drive in.  Plutocracy at work.  Who needs campaign finance reform?

    • ruszja

      Member
      January 27, 2015 at 10:36 am

      Good!

      • Unknown Member

        Deleted User
        January 27, 2015 at 12:18 pm

        I will vote for who they want me to fir 5 million in cash

  • btomba_77

    Member
    August 3, 2015 at 4:56 am

    [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/at-donor-meeting-charles-koch-urges-wealthy-conservatives-to-do-even-more/2015/08/02/8146b7f2-38d2-11e5-b673-1df005a0fb28_story.html] Who’da thunk it?! The Kochs are civil rights leaders![/url]

    Look at the American revolution, the anti-slavery movement, the womens suffrage movement, the civil rights movement.  All of these struck a moral chord with the American people. They all sought to overcome an injustice. And we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.

           ~ Charles Koch, Dana Point, CA,  Aug 2, 2015

    • kayla.meyer_144

      Member
      August 3, 2015 at 6:47 am

      Last I recall the Libertarians thought the Civil Rights laws and Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was all government over-reach. They struck a chord all right with the South.

      • eyoab2011_711

        Member
        August 3, 2015 at 9:43 am

        Interesting that the Koch’s went to liberal California to have their conference.  No nice hotels in Wichita?

        • kayla.meyer_144

          Member
          August 3, 2015 at 10:02 am

          Kansas is going bankrupt due to Brownbackonomics. Kochs don’t want to remind anyone how well conservative economic “solutions” work. Outlook not looking up either.
           
          [link=http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article29850430.html]http://www.kansascity.com…s/article29850430.html[/link]
           
           

          • ruszja

            Member
            August 3, 2015 at 12:34 pm

            Quote from Frumious

            Kansas is going bankrupt due to Brownbackonomics. Kochs don’t want to remind anyone how well conservative economic “solutions” work. Outlook not looking up either.

            [link=http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article29850430.html]http://www.kansascity.com…s/article29850430.html[/link]

            The article you link says nothing to that effect.

            Ag and energy are slowing down. No suprise the states with big ag involvement are slowing.

          • btomba_77

            Member
            August 3, 2015 at 1:17 pm

            [link=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/us/politics/donald-trump-attacks-as-republican-rivals-court-donors-at-koch-retreat.html?_r=0]http://www.nytimes.com/20…koch-retreat.html?_r=0[/link]
             
             
            I wish good luck to all of the Republican candidates that traveled to California to beg for money etc. from the Koch Brothers. …Puppets?”    ~Donald Trump
             
             
             
            love it

            • btomba_77

              Member
              August 4, 2015 at 4:36 am

              [img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CLfoXN2WUAAkU3s.jpg[/img]
               
               
              Scott Walker gets punked in New Hampshire.  He thinks he’s posing with supporters, but they are actually environmental acitvists holding a fake check.     HAH!

              • Unknown Member

                Deleted User
                August 4, 2015 at 4:55 am

                Walker is a douchebag
                 

                • kaldridgewv2211

                  Member
                  August 4, 2015 at 8:16 am

                  Any big names behind Trump?  I did a google search and the top results are about Trump funding his own campaign and an article about a few small donations.
                   
                  I’m starting to get the phone calls more and more at home now.  Like Ben Carson would like to send me his book for a $100 or more donation.  No thanks Ben.

                  • btomba_77

                    Member
                    August 4, 2015 at 11:26 am

                    Quote from DICOM_Dan

                    Any big names behind Trump?  I did a google search and the top results are about Trump funding his own campaign and an article about a few small donations.

                    I’m starting to get the phone calls more and more at home now.  Like Ben Carson would like to send me his book for a $100 or more donation.  No thanks Ben.

                    For now he is self funding… but he is indeed building a real campaign apparatus.
                     
                    He has a massive advantage in that he can, for the cost $0.00, lead the news cycle on any given day he chooses.  
                     
                    At some point though the nuts and bolts of paying staffers will have to be done and Trump has openly stated he will be self-funding his campaign.

                    • kaldridgewv2211

                      Member
                      August 4, 2015 at 1:06 pm

                      surprising because the last few elections have taken about a billion in campaign money to win.  That’s a lot of money to pull out of the piggy bank.

                    • btomba_77

                      Member
                      November 15, 2020 at 5:01 am

                      [link=https://www.wsj.com/articles/charles-koch-says-his-partisanship-was-a-mistake-11605286893]https://www.wsj.com/artic…-a-mistake-11605286893[/link]
                       
                      [b]Charles Koch Says His Partisanship Was a Mistake[/b]
                       
                      In a rare interview, the libertarian billionaire concedes that his GOP partisanship and activism badly deepened Americas divisions. As he puts it in his new book, Boy, did we screw up! What a mess!  
                       
                       

                    • kayla.meyer_144

                      Member
                      November 15, 2020 at 6:56 am

                      Oops, I burned down the house.
                       
                      But we did get everything we were after while burning it down!
                       
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