Koch Party Wins Big, Planet in Peril

[rurallib]

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2014/11/12662/koch-party-wins-big-planet-peril

The Koch Party The Koch's Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit dark money group that does not disclose its donors, is reported to have spent some $77 million on competitive Senate and House races, says a spokesman. The Koch's new Freedom Partners Action Fund, a super PAC that discloses some of its donors, spent some $25 million. Not all Koch candidates won their races, but the Kochs were ranked big winners in the Sunlight Foundation's post-election "return on investment" analysis.

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And the Kochs purchased a ground game that puts the Chicago machine to shame. "In many places, [AFP] has more trained and paid operatives than the traditional political parties have. Nowhere is this more obvious than Florida, where the group has 10 offices, its single largest field operation," reports Salon.

In the hotly contested North Carolina Senate race between Kay Hagan and ALEC stalwart Thom Tillis, AFP "had 45 paid staffers who knocked on 186,000 doors and made at least 1 million phone calls," says the Washington Post.

The Kochs are not your average oligarchs, they are a political party.

comment - the Koch party now owns the the US House, Senate and most of the governorships in this country. That makes them smile:

[notadmblnd]

1. Their Aunt Ilse would be proud.

[a kennedy]

2. and it makes me sick to death......I just don't know what the dems can do......

and I'm really tired of hearing who's fault it was they lost......I want to know what can they do now?? My heart just breaks listening to all the crap about the power shift, and the first order of business is dismantling ACA, the stupid agenda of the repubs. I'm sick, I can't listen to any news show, national or local, it's just so d*mn depressing.....I want to move out of this country until this nightmare is over, whenever that'll be. 2 years?? 4 years?? forever?? I'm sick. Just sick, and I weep for my country. It's been 8 days and I'm still just as ill as I was when I woke up on Nov 5th.