Koch Brothers Super PAC Donors Revealed, Are a Lot Like the Koch Brothers

[Triana]

Conservative billionaires David Koch and Charles "Chazzdawg"* Koch run a variety of political activism funds that don't have to disclose the names of their donors because they don't explicitly advocate for the election of specific candidates. But they've now launched a super PAC called the Freedom Partners Action Fund that does back individual candidates, and as such the identities of the group's donors are public. Politico takes the opportunity to examine the kinds of donors motivated to join the Kochs' money network, which is expected to spend more during this election cycle than either party's national committee spent in 2010. The answer seems to be, generally, "heartland industrialists"—no surprise given the Kochs' backgrounds as Kansas oil and engineering tycoons:

The group received $1 million apiece from Arkansas poultry producer Ronnie Cameron, Wisconsin roofing billionaire Diane Hendricks and Nebraska trucking magnate Clarence Werner...

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Other ID'd donors:

Stanley Hubbard, Minnesota media mogul
Jack Biltis, founder of an Arizona human-resources company
John W. Childs, founder of Massachusetts private equity firm
Ned Diefenthal, Louisiana chemical and manufacturing CEO

THE REST:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/10/14/koch_brothers_super_pac_donors_identities_revealed.html

[Scuba]

1. Hendricks is a Scott Walker backer, the one who asked him how he was going to ...

... make Wisconsin a right-to-work state. In response he made his infamous "divide and conquer" statement.

[2naSalit]

2. K&R!!!!