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applegrove

(118,900 posts)
Sat Feb 8, 2014, 10:26 PM Feb 2014

"Dems seriously alarmed by Koch money"

Dems seriously alarmed by Koch money

By Greg Sargent at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/02/05/dems-seriously-alarmed-by-koch-money/

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As of this week, Americans for Prosperity has spent more than $27 million on ads since August, putting it on pace to far outstrip its overall $38.5 million budget for the 2010 midterms.

And it’s only February. So where’s the response from Dem groups and wealthy Dem donors?

The main outside group counter-balancing AFP is the Senate Majority PAC, which spends to elect Dems to the Senate. Ty Matsdorf, a spokesman for the group, says this:


“It’s unprecedented. It means that groups like ours have to go up early as well. We can’t let those attacks go unchallenged.”






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"Dems seriously alarmed by Koch money" (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2014 OP
best democracy money can buy spanone Feb 2014 #1
The Koch brothers should be a household word. Attack them by name. jsr Feb 2014 #2
I agree. Shine the light on those two bastards, they scurry like cockroaches when that happens. bluestate10 Feb 2014 #3
The Amendment: Loudly Feb 2014 #4

bluestate10

(10,942 posts)
3. I agree. Shine the light on those two bastards, they scurry like cockroaches when that happens.
Sat Feb 8, 2014, 10:43 PM
Feb 2014

When Rachel Maddow tags them with facts about their underhanded shit, they go off like the complaining pigs they are.

 

Loudly

(2,436 posts)
4. The Amendment:
Sat Feb 8, 2014, 11:06 PM
Feb 2014
It shall not be an infringement of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution for Congress to limit by law the raising and expenditure of money in public elections.
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