How the nyt views the Koch Bros.
Posted on 04/20/2015 2:32:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Charles G. and David H. Koch, the influential and big-spending conservative donors, have a favorite in the race for the Republican nomination: Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin.
On Monday, at a fund-raising event in Manhattan for the New York State Republican Party, David Koch told donors that he and his brother, who oversee one of the biggest private political organizations in the country, believed that Mr. Walker was the Republican Party’s best hope for recapturing the White House.
“We will support whoever the candidate is,” said Mr. Koch, according to two people who attended the event. “But it should be Scott Walker.”
The remark — made before dozens of top New York donors who had gathered to hear Mr. Walker speak at the Union League Club — could effectively end one of the most closely watched contests in the “invisible primary,” a period where candidates crisscross the country seeking not the support of voters but the blessing of their party’s biggest donors and fund-raisers.
Most of the leading Republican candidates have aggressively courted the Kochs, who control a network of political nonprofits, “super PACs” and hundreds of like-minded donors, all of which are planning to spend almost $900 million over the next two years advancing conservative candidates and policies.
But while the Kochs are influential among their peers, it is unclear whether they will favor Mr. Walker with more than good will.
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Have we found the GOPe candidate?
Yes. Ted Cruz.
Cruz is the GOPe candidate? Am I missing something? I daresay Cruz is far from the GOP Establishment.
Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm should be able to round up conservatives nation-wide in early morning raids, and ship them to the camps.
How the nyt views the Koch Bros.
I think our GOPe candidate is Walker. A Cruz/Walker, Walker/Cruz ticket wouldn’t be too shabby. As compared to a Clinton/Castro, Warren/Castro ticket.
Right on schedule for their amnesty plans.
Koch brothers are liberal-tarians and yet will not even back Paul who is also a liberal-tarian.
Paul must not be happy knowing he stands no chance of anything and has let daddy down.
Still he will run again at the next election to siphon votes
> all of which are planning to spend almost $900 million over the next two years
Peanuts compared to the clinton warchest.
Cruz is the candidate, regardless of what the GOPe thinks
I can get on board with that. :)
Yep.
What’s amazing is that the GOP could have a dozen-plus candidates in it, without a half-way legitimate one that isn’t pro-amnesty. (Cruz is the best so far, but even he would legalize the 20 million-plus here illegally.)
The GOPe has a pretty effective filter, and money drives it all.
I’ve not decided on him but Governor Walker gives me a pre-2000 George W. Bush vibe.
He portends to be a conservative but I’ve yet to find an issue that puts him at odds with the Wall Street/Chamber of Commerce types.
We’ll see
Peanuts compared to the clinton warchest.
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That’s true but how does it compare to the GOP candidates war chest. That
money would go a long way towards the funding of a primary run/win.
The Koch’s aren’t conservatives. They’re libertarians when it suits them. Like most BigBiz guys they believe in free market economics when it isn’t in their sector; otherwise special favors rule.
Not if its Walker. I’m already sick of having him crammed down my throat and he hasn’t even announced yet.
Ted Cruz. Accept no substitute.
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