Missouri's top GOP Senate recruit huddles with Koch network in New York

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Source: McClatchy Washington Bureau

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley huddled with influential conservative policymakers and donors at a seminar hosted by the billionaire Koch brothers’ advocacy group at a posh New York City hotel on Friday, less than a week after Hawley officially launched his U.S. Senate bid.

It was the second time this year that Hawley has attended one of the Kochs’ exclusive retreats. Hawley spoke in January at a Koch-sponsored seminar at a swanky resort near Palm Springs, California. At the time, a spokesman for Hawley said it was a “personal trip.”

Koch Industries, owned by the billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, contributed $20,000 to Hawley’s campaign for attorney general last year.

Their invitation-only gatherings historically are a chance for the conservative fundraising elite to size up candidates they can support. It’s estimated the Kochs’ network will spend at least $300 million to promote its agenda in the 2018 election cycle.

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1. Hawley is seeking to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., regarded as one of the nations most vulne

Getting money out of campaign's should be everyone's priority but this issue is not even on the far radar screen.



.......Hawley is seeking to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., regarded as one of the nation’s most vulnerable Senate Democrats, and has been courting conservative support.

Shortly before announcing his Senate bid Tuesday, Hawley spoke on the phone with former White House strategist Steve Bannon, the Breitbart executive promoting Republican candidates willing to challenge the GOP establishment.

The New York seminar Friday at the St. Regis Hotel focused heavily on what the Kochs’ conservative advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity, considers its top priority: An overhaul of the nation’s tax system.

Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned that Republicans could lose big in 2018 if they don’t get major tax cuts through Congress.

Hawley participated in a panel discussion on “advancing policy issues” at the state level with Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb, R-Okla. and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, R-Miss. Both are likely future gubernatorial candidates. Their remarks were closed to the press, but reporters were allowed to attend other presentations.

Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, said the group respects Hawley and invited him to Friday’s seminar as a guest in his official capacity as attorney general. Hawley’s spokesman said travel expenses for the trip were covered by his newly launched Senate campaign...............................................

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[cstanleytech]

3. Yea big in that the bribe money will shift around that is what they are really concerned about as it

is clear that the Repugnants in Congress only care about the bribe money they can get ahold of and not about the average american.

[turbinetree]

2. FUCK YOU KOCH"S

And lets not forget conservative fucking U.S. Supreme Courts justices have gone to these events

[Zambero]

4. Courted by Bannon and then the Kochs???

It sounds as if the GOP's "anti-" and "establishment elite" factions are not all that far apart, as some would have us believe.

[CanonRay]

5. He's getting his marching orders

and they are tying the strings to him, attached to their filthy money.

[lastlib]

6. Reading this prompted me to write another check to the McCaskill campaign.

Not that I can really afford to, but I can't afford not to. Claire is my Senator; I can't afford to lose her. She's the only one I have. Roy Blunt is a wholly-owned subsidiary of RightWingNutJobs, Inc.

I hope we can do with small donations what the Koch-suckers do with big $$.