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Jane Mayer on The Koch Brothers' Plan to 'in Effect, Buy America'
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Jane Mayer on The Koch Brothers' Plan to 'in Effect, Buy America'
By Eric Black
11/23/16
MinnPost
https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2016/11/
jane-mayer-koch-brothers-plan-effect-buy-america
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/jnt9xh6
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In her journalistic work for The New Yorker magazine, and in her most
recent book, Dark Money, Mayer has assembled the various sightings of a
tentacle here and there into a story about the Kochs plan to in effect,
buy America, and to do it without attracting too much attention. She spoke
about it yesterday at a forum hosted by the Center for the Study of
Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School
of Public Affairs.
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The Koch Bros. are not so much Republicans as ultraconservative
libertarians. (David Koch was actually the vice-presidential nominee on
the Libertarian Party ticket in 1980 the year Ronald Reagan was elected.
The younger Koch ran on a platform that called for the abolition or at
least privatization of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.) Mayer said
the Kochs come from a far-right element that derives from the John Birch
Society of the 1950s and '60s.
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That Libertarian ticket ran a distant fourth, with 1 percent of the
popular vote. And, since then, the Kochs have worked, assiduously and
pretty effectively, to develop and implement what Mayer called a strategy
for, in effect, buying America.
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By buying America, Mayer seems to mean buying elections and buying them on
behalf of candidates representing the right wing of the Republican Party
much further right than Reagan, the defining conservative of his era, was
and believing more radically than Reagan did in a very small government
and a very large role for the wants and needs and power of the wealthy.
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The politically astute portion of the population has heard and read a bit
about the Koch brothers, but the Kochs generally stay out of the spotlight
and they have developed ways and means of operating in the dark, which is
why Mayers book is called Dark Money.
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'An invitation to corruption'
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One of their favorite methods, she said, is what she calls weaponizing
philanthropy. This is a method, which Im sure youve heard about, of
exploiting loopholes in the campaign finance laws to set up organizations
with names that sound like philanthropies but which have ways of injecting
huge sums of money into political advertising. These methods, aided by
Supreme Court rulings, have exploded just since 2013, to the point where
Mayer estimates that for about two-thirds of all the money spent on
political messaging, you cant tell whos behind the spending.
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Secret money in politics, she added, is an invitation to corruption.
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Over recent years, Mayer said, you can see the influence that these
weaponized
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Over recent years, Mayer said, you can see the influence that these
weaponized philanthropies are having in, for example, a growing number of
Americans who say that human-caused global warming is not happening.
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The Kochs are big-time players in the oil industry (they own a big
refinery in Rosemount). Mayer stipulated that the Kochs may be very
sincere in their policy goal, but the effect of many of their policy
crusades definitely helps them financially as well.
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One of the big money-in-politics stories in the mainstream press this year
was that the Koch brothers were not active in the presidential race.
Donald Trump disagrees with their view on many issues, and Trump found
ways to win with a much lower level of actual campaign spending than
Hillary Clinton spent or than Republican nominee Mitt Romney spent in
2008. Mayer said the fact that Trump won while spending substantially less
than his opponent has caused some to wonder whether money is really as big
a deal in politics as weve been told. Its a good, but complicated
question. Part of the answer is that tweets are free and TV commercials
are expensive. But, anyway, we were talking about the Koch Bros.
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When they decided not to play in the presidential race, the Kochs focused
on down-ballot races and, Mayer believes, Koch-influenced spending is a
big part of the reason that so many houses of so many legislatures flipped
from Democratic to Republican control over recent cycles, including this
year.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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