Karl Rove, Koch Brothers -- on your TV, in your mailbox

By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

The Crossroads GPS political committee, co-founded by Bush guru Karl Rove, is in my mailbox, on my TV screen and now on my radio at Whidbey Island. But it tells me nothing about who's putting up money to sway me.

Crossroads GPS will butt in a lot more next year: GPS and its partner American Crossroads have set out to raise $120 million to defeat President Obama, help Republicans capture the U.S. Senate and keep the House.

Karl has company. Charles and David Koch, billionaire heads of an oil-and-business conglomerate, plan to give and steer $88 million toward right-wing politicians and conservative causes in 2012. (Kudos to Ken Vogel of Politico for smoking out their plans.)

A Koch front is already advertising to bolster Wiscon's increasingly unpopular Gov. Scott Walter in his bid to deprive public employee unions of collective bargaining rights (and defund a potent Democratic contributor).

Crossroads GPS is already on the air with radio ads, targeting 22 congressional districts. It's taking Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., to task for having the nerve, gall and presumption to oppose gutting such programs as Women, Infants and Children and the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
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The best way to put these slimeballs out of business is to make it a costly proposition for them to buy elections. Make 'em spend koch's millions along with his other cronies and then work hard to expose their spending and then beat their asses at the ballot box.

As long as the rich feel they can buy elections (and Democrats stay home) they'll spend more and more. Make 'em feel its a waste of their money and we're one step closer to put thse losers to pasture...

These creeps make me sick. The only thing we can do is keep trying to expose them for what they are.