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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
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POLITICAL PROPAGANDA:
Koch-Backed Political Network,
Designed to Shield Donors,
Raised $400 Million in 2012
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Koch-Backed Political Network,
Designed to Shield Donors,
Raised $400 Million in 2012
By Matea Gold
Published: January 5, 2013
Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-backed-political-
network-built-to-shield-donors-raised-400-million-in-2012-elections/
2014/01/05/9e7cfd9a-719b-11e3-9389-09ef9944065e_story.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/k67osuy
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The political network spearheaded by conservative billionaires Charles and
David Koch has expanded into a far-reaching operation of unrivaled
complexity, built around a maze of groups that cloaks its donors,
according to an analysis of new tax returns and other documents.
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The filings show that the network of politically active nonprofit groups
backed by the Kochs and fellow donors in the 2012 elections financially
outpaced other independent groups on the right and, on its own, matched
the long-established national coalition of labor unions that serves as one
of the biggest sources of support for Democrats.
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The resources and the breadth of the organization make it singular in
American politics: an operation conducted outside the campaign finance
system, employing an array of groups aimed at stopping what its financiers
view as government overreach. Members of the coalition target different
constituencies but together have mounted attacks on the new health-care
law, federal spending and environmental regulations.
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Key players in the Koch-backed network have already begun engaging in the
2014 midterm elections, hiring new staff members to expand operations and
strafing House and Senate Democrats with hard-hitting ads over their
support for the Affordable Care Act.
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Its funders remain largely unknown; the coalition was carefully
constructed with extensive legal barriers to shield its donors.
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But they have substantial firepower. Together, the 17 conservative groups
that made up the network raised at least $407 million during the 2012
campaign, according to the analysis of tax returns by The Washington Post
and the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks
money in politics.
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A labyrinth of tax-exempt groups and limited-liability companies helps
mask the sources of the money, much of which went to voter mobilization
and television ads attacking President Obama and congressional Democrats,
according to tax filings and campaign finance reports.
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The coalitions revenue surpassed that of the Crossroads organizations, a
super PAC and nonprofit group co-founded by GOP strategist Karl Rove that
together brought in $325 million in the last cycle.
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The left has its own financial muscle, of course; unions plowed roughly
$400 million into national, state and local elections in 2012. A network
of wealthy liberal donors organized by the group Democracy Alliance
mustered about $100 million for progressive groups and super PACs in the
last election cycle, according to a source familiar with the totals.
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The donor network organized by the Kochs along with funding an array of
longtime pro-Republican groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the
National Rifle Association and Americans for Tax Reform distributed money
to a coalition of groups that share the brothers libertarian, free-market
perspective. Each group was charged with a specialized task such as youth
outreach, Latino engagement or data crunching.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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