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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolitical Operatives Abandon Koch Network For Donald Trump
(The Intercept) After investing a sizable fortune into building a political machine that now rivals the size and budgets of both major political parties, the conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are seeing some of their top operatives take jobs with the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
The fact that many of Trumps political positions are at odds with those of the Koch brothers does not seem to be a factor.
Take Corey Lewandowski, Trumps campaign manager, who spent many years of his career working for the Koch political network, first as an assistant at the Koch-led group Citizens for a Sound Economy in 1997 and from 2008 through earlier this year as a senior staff member to the Kochs primary grassroots group, Americans for Prosperity. Over the last seven years, Lewandowski helped the Koch network organize Tea Party events and get-out-the-vote efforts for Republican candidates for office.
Alan Cobb, a strategic consultant for Trump, is the former director of Kansas public affairs for Koch Industries and also worked for years as a vice president at Americans for Prosperity.
Trump is being counseled by lawyer Donald F. McGahn, the former Federal Election Commission chair who just months ago represented the Koch political network during hearings with the FEC. McGahn is listed as affiliated with Freedom Partners Action Fund, the Super PAC set up by the Koch brothers and their lobbyists. ..................(more)
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/27/koch-operatives-trump/
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Political Operatives Abandon Koch Network For Donald Trump (Original Post)
marmar
Aug 2015
OP
Renew Deal
(81,846 posts)1. They're opportunists that want to pick a winner
And ride them into WH jobs
bemildred
(90,061 posts)3. +1. nt
ericson00
(2,707 posts)2. the more division in the Republican Party, the better
eom