Koch-backed network aims to spend nearly $1 billion on 2016 elections

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Koch-backed network aims to spend nearly $1 billion on 2016 elections

By Matea Gold at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-backed-network-aims-to-spend-nearly-1-billion-on-2016-elections/2015/01/26/77a44654-a513-11e4-a06b-9df2002b86a0_story.html?postshare=2531422306006736

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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — A network of conservative advocacy groups backed by Charles and David Koch aims to spend a staggering $889 million in advance of the next White House election, part of an expansive strategy to build on its 2014 victories that may involve jumping into the Republican primaries.

The massive financial goal was revealed to donors here Monday during an annual winter meeting hosted by Freedom Partners, the tax-exempt business lobby that serves as the hub of the Koch-backed political operation, according to an attendee. The amount is more than double the $407 million that 17 allied groups in the network raised during the 2012 campaign.

The figure comes close to the $1 billion that each of the two major parties’ presidential nominees are expected to spend in 2016, and it cements the network’s standing as one of the country’s most potent political forces. With its resources and capabilities — including a national field operation and cutting-edge technology — it is challenging the primacy of the official parties. In the 2012 elections, the Republican National Committee spent $404 million, while the Democratic National Committee shelled out $319 million.

The new $889 million goal reflects the anticipated budgets of all the allied groups that the network funds. Those resources will go into field operations, new data-driven technology and policy work, among other projects, along with likely media campaigns aimed at shaping the congressional and White House elections.




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[Fred Sanders]

1. But America wants to know if there is a snowstorm in January happening. The media is on it.

How much do you think ABC's Jonathon Karl was paid by the Koch's this past weekend to carry water for them as they met secretly behind high security closed doors?

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/30/white-house-press-office-beats-misinformed-fox-contributor.html

[KamaAina]

3. And who deflated Tom Brady's balls.

Could it have been Gisele?

[KamaAina]

2. Cheapskates. Isn't democracy worth at least a full billion?