“On the policy front, Adelson’s political agenda has long been dominated by his ardor for Israel and his hawkish views on defense and national security — subjects that are less important to many of the Koch network’s libertarian-leaning donors, who have often pushed for fewer foreign entanglements and tighter defense budgets. But other domestic ideological and bottom-line concerns, as well as political exigencies, seem to have brought the multibillionaires’ agendas closer together.
Adelson, the Koch brothers and a number of the network’s wealthy donors, for instance, are said to be strong foes of estate taxes, which in the last year have increasingly become a target of AFP and some other Koch-backed groups. Likewise, both the casino mogul and the Koch brothers have poured big bucks over the years into efforts to curb union clout, in part by backing the various campaigns of Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) as he has fought to limit public sector unions’ bargaining power.
A few Koch network groups, including AFP and 60 Plus, have in the past year expanded lobbying drives at the federal and state levels to pressure lawmakers to kill estate taxes. This spring, the House passed a bill calling for an end to death taxes after a lobbying blitz by a coalition that included a few Koch-backed advocacy groups and other powerhouses like Americans for Tax Reform and the American Conservative Union. A similar bill is pending in the Senate, but Democrats may filibuster it and the White House is firmly opposed.
Another area of overlapping political interest is the Koch network’s multimillion-dollar funding for Concerned Veterans for America, an advocacy group launched in 2012 that focuses heavily on health care reform for veterans and the need for tougher national security policies. The group’s founder, Pete Hegseth, previously ran another outfit, Vets for Freedom, which received $1.4 million from the Adelson-backed group Freedom’s Watch and spent close to $5 million during the 2008 election season, according to public records.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/14/sheldon-adelson-koch-brothers_n_7563866.html
Of course the HuffPost isn’t going to point out the big area of Adelson/Koch agreement: cheap (illegal) immigrant labor.
Yeah, Walker worked part-time at IBM while he was in college, before dropping out. Then he got stuck working for the Red Cross (the “Dreaded Private Sector” as Boston’s Howie Carr puts it, even though it was a nonprofit/NGO) because he lost his first bid to crack the Wisconsin state legislature. But he made it in three years later and hasn’t left government service since.