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A Frustrated Koch Brother Decides It's Time to 'Spout Off'
This is from the Wall Street Journal via MSN. (WSJ, requires subscription)
Part way in:
He plans to wait until year-end to determine how much he will spend on 2016 elections, including the White House contest. How much I give to the political side will depend on to what extent the candidates out there are going to make a difference on the things I care about, he said.
Mr. Koch and his brother David havent endorsed a presidential candidate, and unlike other wealthy donors, Mr. Koch said they arent necessarily shopping for a candidate to support. He bristles at news reports that suggested they have a favored contender. Instead, their alliance is focused on groups that advance free-market, small-government ideals, he said. Some are more educational than political.
But many of these organizations have a political aim. Americans for Prosperity, for example, which started with money from the Kochs, has built an army of grass roots volunteers to push issues and candidates at the local, state and federal level. Republican candidates and officeholders regularly turn out to these events because the groups can attract big crowds of voters and activists.
Asked whether he thinks the rise, and media coverage, of Donald Trump in the GOP field has distracted from serious policy discussions, he said, Well, yeah. I mean, critical for a free society is tolerance, an apparent reference to Mr. Trumps comments about immigrants and women that some have called insensitive.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/a-frustrated-koch-brother-decides-its-time-to-spout-off/ar-BBmsW4x?li=AAa0dzB&ocid=iehp
The rest of the story is just Chuck trying to clear the Koch name bullshit.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)What do you do when the prognosis says you can't win a fair election?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)How desperately unhappy the Kochs must be.
librechik
(30,674 posts)poor baby
kimbutgar
(21,128 posts)And I hope it blows up in his face.
sub.theory
(652 posts)You created the monster and now you've lost control of it. Hope it ends up destroying you.