Koch Brothers Will Spend Millions to Support Republicans Who Vote Against Health Care Bill

[babylonsister]

http://time.com/4710418/koch-brothers-donald-trump-republican-health-care/

Koch Brothers Will Spend Millions to Support Republicans Who Vote Against Health Care Bill
Associated Press
Mar 22, 2017


The conservative Koch network is promising to spend millions of dollars to defeat the health care overhaul backed by President Donald Trump and top House Republicans.

The network's leading groups, Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners, announced late Wednesday the creation of a special fund to support House members who vote against the bill.

Spokesman James Davis says the current proposal doesn't do enough to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law. He says, "We're going to be there to help these people for taking a principled stand."

Davis describes the fund as "seven figures" to provide paid ads and other grassroots support in the 2018 election.

The announcement marks the Koch network's most aggressive move against the Trump-backed health care proposal, which is under attack from the right and left.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Thanks, Citizens United.

[enough]

2. No more pretending. Sheer blatant explicit vote-buying. NT

[Initech]

7. The sooner the Kochs and the Mercers are thrown in jail, the better we'll be.

[beachbum bob]

3. any time we see conservatives go at each other...its a great time for us...sit back and enjoy

this is the beginning...

[babylonsister]

4. I suppose, but the way they see it, this healthcare travesty isn't

cruel enough for them. That's disheartening.

[beachbum bob]

5. the mad dog element of the conservatives want no benefits for americans....and pure profit

for insurance companies...the way it used to be

throwing americans out in the street to die is really of no great concern to the mad dog types,,,and why reasoned discussion and debate has ZERO impact

they just don't give a damn

[Initech]

6. When the revolution happens, we know who to go after.

Keep following the money, eventually we will be free.

[titaniumsalute]

8. Well most republicans are supporting it so the Kocks will be mad