Secret Koch memo details plans to buy the Republican Party and the 2016 Presidential election
The Koch brothers’ political machine is expanding into new states and recruiting new donors as it seeks to shape the Republican Party — and its presidential field — headed into 2016, according to interviews with multiple sources, as well as confidential donor briefing documents obtained by POLITICO.
The documents detail plans to beef up the network’s state-of-the-art data system, and pay hundreds of staff embedded in local communities across the country in preparation for get-out-the-vote efforts that are unprecedented from a third-party group.
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Sources familiar with the thinking in the Koch network say it will turn later this year toward issue-based attacks on Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, then will decide early next year whether to intervene in the Republican presidential primary. But they caution that such intervention likely would only happen if the final field pitted a candidate seen as aligned with the Koch’s small-government ideology – such as Walker or Paul — against one considered anathema to it — such as South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham.
It’s a delicate balance for an operation created out of frustration with what its donors view as reckless spending and government expansion unchecked by either party. While the groups in the Kochs’ network have increasingly waded into electoral politics in support of Republicans, they have almost entirely avoided GOP primary battles.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/koch-brothers-2016-election-memo-117238.html?hp=t1_r
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Looks like GOP candidates will have to kiss their rings if they want to have any hope of winning the primaries.
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