The Koch Brothers Are Going To Shell Out $889 Million In The 2016 Elections

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http://www.businessinsider.com/r-koch-brothers-political-network-planning-889-million-of-spending-in-2016-2015-1

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative political advocacy groups supported by the billionaire Koch brothers plan to spend $889 million in the 2016 U.S. elections, more than double what they raised in 2012, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

The newspaper said the goal was announced to donors at a weekend meeting in Rancho Mirage, California, hosted by Freedom Partners, a business lobby at the center of the Koch brothers' political operation. The Post cited a person who attended the gathering.

The money will be doled out by a network of 17 organizations funded by industrialists Charles and David Koch, who have become a major force in conservative politics in recent years, and other wealthy donors. The network raised $407 million for the 2012 campaign.

During the 2012 election cycle, the national Republican Party collectively spent about $675 million, according to election data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.



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[Orrex]

1. But if we raise their taxes by 1%, it'll bankrupt them. Apparently.

[HereSince1628]

3. Worse...it'd infringe on their rights to be the oligarchs the Founders

so greatly feared.

There seems to be no attempt to even hide it anymore.

[wyldwolf]

2. Progressives opt to forfeit 2016

... Rather than try to competent with that kind if money. Story at 11.

[TheKentuckian]

7. The cost of competing with that kind of cash is being corporate conservative or even regressive.

It requires becoming much of what we oppose to attract the money not just to offset here but from all sources.

Capital isn't on our side, cannot be on our side. To get that money and keep it flowing the cost is serving capital which cannot be done and serve the interests of working people.

One cannot serve two masters.

[wyldwolf]

8. Progressives opt to forfeit 2016

... Rather than try to compete with that kind if money. Story at 11.

[TheKentuckian]

9. Nobody calls for forfeiting anything. It was you that decided winning is determined by

who gets the biggest pile of corporate cash.

[wyldwolf]

10. I decided that? WOW! I'm more powerful than I thought.

[TheKentuckian]

12. I'm not making the argument.

[Man from Pickens]

4. Ross Perot was almost right

here comes that giant sucking sound we were warned about

[KamaAina]

5. Cheapskates. Isn't democracy worth at least a full billion?

[Orsino]

6. "Hello, sailor!" n/t

[jwirr]

11. The true defense for that is to convince the American voter that he/she is being bought. Turn this

in to a disgrace.