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riversedge

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Sat Aug 6, 2016, 05:47 PM Aug 2016

Koch group back into Wisconsin Senate race with $1M ad buy--for teabagger Sen Johnson

Crap!! CRAP!!

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The Koch brothers are back in Wisconsin, making it all the more important for us to support @russfeingold. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-group-back-into-wisconsin-senate-race-with-1m-ad-buy/2016/08/04/4b79cc7e-5a80-11e6-8b48-0cb344221131_story.html … #p2



Koch group back into Wisconsin Senate race with $1M ad buy
By Erica Werner?|?AP August 4

WASHINGTON — A group backed by the billionaire Koch Brothers announced Thursday it is getting back into the Wisconsin Senate race with an ad buy on behalf of GOP incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson, just two weeks after canceling ad reservations in the state.

A spokesman for the group, Freedom Partners Action Fund, cited “some shifts in the polls” in explaining the new $1 million buy boosting Johnson’s record on veterans’ issues, and attacking Democrat Russ Feingold.

The group’s earlier decision to cancel $2 million in ad reservations in Wisconsin was widely seen as evidence Republicans were giving up on Johnson, who has consistently lagged Feingold in their rematch in a state likely to favor Democrats in a presidential election year.

Freedom Partners fund spokesman James Davis said it was a “false interpretation” to see the earlier move as a negative reflection on Johnson’s prospects. “We make these decisions on an evolving basis,” he said......

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Koch group back into Wisconsin Senate race with $1M ad buy--for teabagger Sen Johnson (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2016 OP
And another way a rich powerful guy interferes in our elections. MichiganVote Aug 2016 #1
The Koch brothers have been spending huuuuge amonts of money in doc03 Aug 2016 #2

doc03

(35,349 posts)
2. The Koch brothers have been spending huuuuge amonts of money in
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 05:56 PM
Aug 2016

Ohio against Ted Strickland that is running for Rob Portman's office. I don't remember seeing one Ted Strickland ad
to date.

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