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(California) Group With Koch Brothers Ties Gives $4 Million to Proposition 32...
Source: LOS ANGELES TIMES
A group with ties to the conservative billionaire Koch brothers has dropped $4 million to pass a ballot measure that would severely limit the political activity of labor unions.
The new committee has just one donation -- $4 million from the American Future Fund, a conservative non-profit organization whose stated mission is to promote “conservative and free-market principles.”
The new committee, the California Future Fund for Free Markets, was opened Friday.
A spokesman for the Yes on 32 camapign noted that the money came into a separate committee, and that the official campaign sponsors knew nothing about the donation. "We have absolutely nothing to do with it," said Yes on 32 spokesman Jake Suski...
The new committee has just one donation -- $4 million from the American Future Fund, a conservative non-profit organization whose stated mission is to promote “conservative and free-market principles.”
The new committee, the California Future Fund for Free Markets, was opened Friday.
A spokesman for the Yes on 32 camapign noted that the money came into a separate committee, and that the official campaign sponsors knew nothing about the donation. "We have absolutely nothing to do with it," said Yes on 32 spokesman Jake Suski...
Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/09/group-with-koch-brothers-ties-gives-4-million-to-proposition-32.html
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...buy the governorship. Didn't work then...won't work now. 
