Koch Political Universe Vaster Than Previously Known

[hedda_foil]

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25108-koch-political-universe-vaster-than-previously-known

Direct Koch and Koch Industries Donations Offer Snapshot Into Koch Network

These documents do not provide a comprehensive list of private Koch donations, but instead offer a glimpse into the nearly incomprehensible breadth of the Koch political universe. That universe goes beyond the $400 million the Kochs and their operatives raise and spend through the Freedom Partners/Center to Protect Patient Rights network.

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It is likely that both David Koch himself and Koch Industries have given more to the groups discussed below and to others in additional years, but those records have not been made available.
Known donations from David Koch himself include:

-$850,000 to Americans for Prosperity in 2003 (making him the top donor that year),

-$1 million to AFP in 2001, and $1 million to AFP's predecessor Citizens for a Sound Economy in 2000


-$100,000 to the Competitive Enterprise Institute in 2009

- $125,000 to the Massachusetts-based State Policy Network member think tank Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research in 2007 (making Koch the largest single donor that year),

- and $100,000 to the Pioneer Institute in 2005

Much, much more.
[link:http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/25108-koch-political-universe-vaster-than-previously-known|

[daleo]

1. Oligarchs.

[KoKo]

2. K&R! Whole article worth a read....

[Initech]

3. The Koch roaches are the real terrorists in this world.

When they have more wealth than entire continents and are buying politicians to ensure that they'll get it all, that's terrorism.

[hedda_foil]

4. kick

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, hedda_foil.

[Takket]

6. They are a fungus spreading through the roots of the "tree of liberty"...

... that they so falsely claim to defend.

[xchrom]

7. du rec.