Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity plans $125 million spending spree
Source: Politico
By KENNETH P. VOGEL
The Koch brothers main political arm intends to spend more than $125 million this year on an aggressive ground, air and data operation benefiting conservatives, according to a memo distributed to major donors and sources familiar with the group.
The projected budget for Americans for Prosperity would be unprecedented for a private political group in a midterm, and would likely rival even the spending of the Republican and Democratic parties congressional campaign arms.
The group already has spent more than $35 million on ads attacking vulnerable Democrats in key Senate and House races, according to sources, including Sens. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. The $125 million projection comes from a memo obtained by POLITICO, labeled as a Confidential Investor Update provided to major donors in March, but a source familiar with AFP called the figure a very conservative estimate. Were on track for more than that..
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/koch-brothers-americans-for-prosperity-2014-elections-106520.html
$125M exceeds the total 2012 fundraising totals of both the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)Chump change, walkin' around money, call it what you will...
markmyword
(180 posts)What laws are on the books for people who are trying to OVERTHROW our Democracy?
We're so worried about terrorists, what about terrorists trying to undermine the Constitution, buying and stealing elections?
The Justice Department should start prosecuting our own home grown TERRORISTS, the KOCH BROTHERS! they're a real threat to our country.
Initech
(100,079 posts)rurallib
(62,420 posts)hardly a month's pay.
Hard to imagine people so fucking rich.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)These fuckers would side with the Redcoats.
Initech
(100,079 posts)pam4water
(2,916 posts)Loudly
(2,436 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)pam4water
(2,916 posts)LarryNM
(493 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)The Republicans are simply trying to buy the election. We need to contribute to Democrats that we support to give them a fighting chance.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,392 posts)mostly attacking Hagan. Oh, they were obnoxious.
I am hopeful, though, that Hagan will spank Tillis big-time.
There have been a lot of Republican women--teachers, nurses--
totally put off by the hard right turn of the Repub state government
here and Tillis is hugely responsible for that.
I hope I'm right.