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The Koch Brothers Give to Democrats Too
Townhall ^ | 3/22/14 | Heather Ginsberg

Posted on 03/22/2014 2:31:53 PM PDT by Libloather

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The KochPAC gave almost $200,000 to Democratic candidates and committees, including just most recently in 2010. This included a $30,000 donation to the DSCC.

But isn’t it funny how top Democrats like Harry Reid harp on how the Kochs are ruining politics and complain about their partisan allegiances? Since 2000 KochPAC has given more than $1.4 million to Democratic candidates, leadership PACs and committees. Who’s partisan now?

Now, this is not to say that the Kochs haven’t been a huge part of funding Republican ideas, but it must be awfully frustrating for them to have people constantly criticizing them. The whole point of funding political interests is to support those ideas and people that you like. Clearly, the Democrats that were receiving help from the KochPAC had something of interest to the brothers.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brothers; democrats; koch; kochbrothers; reid
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RE :”But his voters, they are dumb and they love to hear rich people get bashed. The dems give them what they want when they vilify the Koch brothers.”

This is just one of many Dems strategies to try to limit the electoral bloodbath that will happen in November.

The Dems only hope is to turn out votes again, but the Koch brothers are not much motivation for them.

21 posted on 03/22/2014 7:42:59 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
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