Koch Brothers Rival GOP With Plans To Spend $900 Million In 2016
Via NPR
The political network led by industrialists Charles and David Koch plans to spend $889 million for the 2016 elections. In modern politics, it’s more than just a ton of money.
It’s about as much as the entire national Republican Party spent in the last presidential election cycle, four years ago. And as Sheila Krumholz — director of the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks politicians and donors — pointed out in an interview, it’s double what the Koch brothers and their network spent in 2012.
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