Kochs Budget $750M to Save GOP Senate

[misterhighwasted]

Kochs to the Rescue: Billionaires Budget $750M to Save GOP Senate
By Susan Madrak August 7, 2016

Looks like the Kochs are more than a little worried that Democrats are going to take back control of the Senate — $750 million worth of worry.

The AP reports from the annual Koch summit in Colorado that the Koch donor network will spend roughly $750 million this election cycle.

The Kochs want to keep Republicans like Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, Ron Johnson, Rob Portman, and Dean Heller right where they are, so they’re ready to bail them out with big bucks.

Those funds were originally intended to elect a Republican president, but Donald seems to be a bridge too far even for the Koch brothers.

“We’re focused on the Senate,” said Mark Holden, who’s a senior VP of Koch Industries. He said none of the presidential candidates are aligned with the Koch network “from a values and beliefs and policy perspective.”

Instead, they will focus on those senate races in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Wisconsin and Florida. (The Koch network has spent $42 million so far on television and digital advertising.)


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[brooklynite]

1. Link?

[think]

2. Looks to be from Blue Nation Review:

http://bluenationreview.com/kochs-budget-750m-to-save-gop-senate/

[misterhighwasted]

3. Yes. From the AP.

Doesn't surprise me that they would heavily invest in Senate or House seats.
Isn't that where the Kochs generally have invested?
In building local, State, Senate & House seats.

With the Senate threatened in 2016 they stand to lose the grip they've enjoyed since their Tea Party emergence.

As President, Clinton would be more likely to get her policies & Supreme Ct choices passed if the GOP loses their strength in the Senate. There are also some House seats under threat of being won by Dems.

This is the issue at the heart of Koch's sudden 750 mill campaign push.

They have invested A LOT of money in buying a Senate & House that works for them.

[think]

4. It's a disgusting amount of money to influence those elections. Hopefully the American people will

see through it.

The Koch's are no strangers to playing dirty so it is certainly something to be concerned about.

[JCMach1]

5. Bring it one... throw good money after bad... the Senate was probably a lost cause long before Trump

came on the scene...

[beachbum bob]

6. hope to see them lose a lot of that on backin losing candidates...we need voters to overcome money

[Hortensis]

7. One expert said if Kochs say $1 billion, expect $1.5.

They always try to hide just how much they're spending. And don't believe it's all going to the senate races in those states. They really, really like sympathetic state legislatures and judgeships as well.

Plus, they and the hundreds (1000 yet?) of megamillionaires and billionaires in their alliance are investing most of their money in redirecting and gaining control of America elsewhere, such as through corrupting universities (recent $150 M gift to Harvard alone), changing standard practices through the judicial process, foiling attempts by locals to run their own counties, phony think tanks and political action groups to supply media with slanted information, etc.

Look at Judicial Watch alone, still churning out reams of information to hungry media on fake Clinton scandals a quarter century after its initial mandate by Richard Mellon Scaife; he's dead, but JW and the trust that funds it live on, with additional funding as needed.