Koch Bros. are engineering a “merger & acquisition” of the Republican party

[kpete]

The Kochs engineer a merger and acquisition of the conservative movement

by digby

72 billion can pay for a whole lot of wingnut welfare:

The billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch are convening some of the country’s richest Republican donors on Sunday at a resort near Palm Springs, Calif., to raise millions of dollars for efforts to shape the political landscape for years to come.

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.................. This year, the Kochs’ close allies are rolling out a new, more integrated approach to politics. That includes wading into Republican primaries for the first time to ensure their ideal candidates end up on the ticket, and also centralizing control of their network to limit headache-inducing freelancing by affiliated operatives.

The shift is best illustrated in the expansion of three pieces of the Koch political network expected to be showcased or represented at the three-day meeting in Palm Springs, whose evolving roles were described to POLITICO by several sources.

• Center for Shared Services: a nonprofit recruiter and administrative support team for other Koch-backed groups, which provides assistance with everything from scouting office space to accounting to furniture and security.

• Freedom Partners: a nonprofit hub that doled out $236 million in 2012 to an array of conservative nonprofits that is now expanding its own operation so that it can fulfill many of the functions of past grantees.

• Aegis Strategic: a political consulting firm started last year by Koch-allied operatives who will recruit, train and support candidates who espouse free-market philosophies like those beloved by the Kochs, and will also work with nonprofit groups in the Koch network, like Freedom Partners, with which it has a contract to provide policy analysis.

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The meeting tomorrow is to persuade other moneybags greedheads to kick in a few bucks and the report says they are eager to sign on. But the Kochs don't really need them. They could double their investment from 2012 and not even notice the difference.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-kochs-engineer-merger-and.html

[snot]

1. Somebody needs to force-feed this info to the Supremes.

[SamKnause]

2. Why ????

The majority of the "Supremes" are on the side of the Koch brothers.

Corporations are people (corporations now have more rights than living breathing humans)
Citizens United (money equals free speech)

[Electric Monk]

3. So they can...

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