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applegrove

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Sat Feb 8, 2014, 09:26 PM Feb 2014

"Dems seriously alarmed by Koch money" [View all]

Dems seriously alarmed by Koch money

By Greg Sargent at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/02/05/dems-seriously-alarmed-by-koch-money/

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As of this week, Americans for Prosperity has spent more than $27 million on ads since August, putting it on pace to far outstrip its overall $38.5 million budget for the 2010 midterms.

And it’s only February. So where’s the response from Dem groups and wealthy Dem donors?

The main outside group counter-balancing AFP is the Senate Majority PAC, which spends to elect Dems to the Senate. Ty Matsdorf, a spokesman for the group, says this:


“It’s unprecedented. It means that groups like ours have to go up early as well. We can’t let those attacks go unchallenged.”






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