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doxydad

(1,363 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 02:18 PM Jun 2014

Washington Post: Kochs' Americans for Prosperity nation's third-biggest party

Here's a fact that will blow your mind. The $300 million the Kochs plan to spend in the 2014 election cycle could replace the annual income for 5,270 American households. And it's barely a drop in the bucket of what these guys and their cronies have to draw upon to buy themselves a Congress. They've got so much money and staff invested in this—240 full-time employees in 32 states—the Washington Post Fix team determines, that they're the nation's third-biggest political party.

Courtesy Daily Kos, hence this edit

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