Koch Network to spend $400 million on 2018 Midterm Elections
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ZoeGod
I’m from Brooklyn a place where stars are born.
No worries. The grassroots progressive movement will prevail.[/QUOTE
The DNC better get their shyt together or 2018 and 2020 is gonna be major setbacks.
these dudes operate independent of the RNC. they were like fukk the RNC we want this direction so we'll fund our own counter operation. who is doing that on the left?
What wouldnt the charges be?!!?
Yeah, donating to PACs and lobbying isn't illegal.
ZoeGod
I’m from Brooklyn a place where stars are born.
Young Turks
they just had a 2 part interview on Freakonomics about this. They admitted this and said they'd continue but they have to get more strategic.
More money doesn't mean victory. Word to Hillary. Or Ossoff. Or any number of others. Hell, Dems might still have more money in various districts even with the Kochs financing some of these Repubs.
freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-1/
http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-hate-koch-brothers-part-2/
I hate these fakkits
newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Well damn 
“We fully expected a repeal vote,” Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips said. | POLITICO Screen grab
Koch-backed group calls health fight in Congress 'humbling'
By KEVIN ROBILLARD
06/25/2017 09:15 PM EDT
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The head of the the Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity admitted to donors on Sunday that the group was caught “flat-footed" by the fight in Congress to replace Obamacare, as the group seeks to influence Republican proposals it says do not go far enough to repeal the 2010 law.
“We fully expected a repeal vote,” Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips told hundreds of donors at the Koch network’s annual seminar at the Broadmoor Resort. “We were caught flat-footed when it didn’t happen."
He added: “This has been humbling for us.”
Americans for Prosperity and other Koch network groups have been critical of the GOP replacement efforts, arguing they don’t do enough to rein in costs or undo President Barack Obama's signature achievement. The group opposed the first House repeal attempt but backed a later version negotiated by House Freedom Caucus Chair Mark Meadows and New Jersey Rep. Tom MacArthur.
The group has been critical of the Senate’s draft, with Phillips telling reporters on Saturday the proposal was “disappointing,” but has stopped short of out-and-out opposing the law.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), speaking to a donor lunch, declined to take a position on the legislation. But he pointed out Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn in the crowd and said he had a bruise on his collarbone from Cornyn putting his thumb on him. Two other senators in attendance, Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas, have said they oppose the current version of the legislation.
CONGRESS
Senate Republicans skeptical Obamacare repeal can pass this week
By ELANA SCHOR and SEUNG MIN KIM
Meadows said President Donald Trump told him he doesn't support the tax either.
"The speaker now understands that he does not have the votes on the BAT," he said of Ryan.
Network leaders said they also were pleased with the Trump administration’s efforts on the federal judiciary, regulatory reform, education reform and in other areas. But the group warned donors significant losses in the midterm elections could block progress.
“This midterm election cycle is far more difficult than in recent years,” said Emily Seidel, a top official at Freedom Partners, another Koch-backed organization. She said liberal political groups were seeing donations booming and had growing budgets to match the donors’ largesse. “We are facing a reinvigorated left.”
Koch-backed group calls health fight in Congress 'humbling'
"Network leaders said they also were pleased with the Trump administration’s efforts on the federal judiciary, regulatory reform, education reform and in other areas."
it's what the trump voters and the non-voters asked for. he's delivering.
it's what the trump voters and the non-voters asked for. he's delivering.Bernie can only win in a small unimportant stateIf only the whole country was full of educated landowners like Vermont
WHY ARENT THESE TWO BROUGHT UP ON FEDERAL CHARGES!!!????they do this shyt so blatantly and people wonder why the system so corrupt...
Its not illegal. And anyone who up-voted this comment is an idiot.
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It used to be illegal until the govt found their work around with lobbying rules....lets no be obtuse....
in the real world this would be BRIBERY plain and simple...
