[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM : LIBRETARIANISM : Quixotic '80 Campaign Gave Birth to Kochs Powerful Network
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM :
LIBRETARIANISM :
Quixotic '80 Campaign Gave Birth to Kochs Powerful Network
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Quixotic '80 Campaign Gave Birth to Kochs Powerful Network
By Nicholas Confessore
May 17, 2014
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/politics/
quixotic-80-campaign-gave-birth-to-kochs-powerful-network.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/laanjsj
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He backed the full legalization of abortion and the repeal of laws that
criminalized drug use, prostitution and homosexuality. He attacked
campaign donation limits and assailed the Republican star Ronald Reagan as
a hypocrite who represented "no change whatsoever from Jimmy Carter and
the Democrats."
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It was 1980, and the candidate was David H. Koch, a 40-year-old bachelor
living in a rent-stabilized apartment in New York City. Mr. Koch, the
vice-presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party, and his older brother
Charles, one of the party's leading funders, were mounting a long-shot
assault on the fracturing American political establishment.
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The Kochs had invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in the burgeoning
libertarian movement. In the waning days of the 1970s, in the wake of
Watergate, Vietnam and a counterculture challenging traditional social
mores, they set out to test just how many Americans would embrace what was
then a radical brand of politics.
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It was the first and only bid for high office by a Koch family member. But
much of what occurred in that quixotic campaign shaped what the Kochs have
become today - a formidable political and ideological force determined to
remake American politics, driven by opposition to government power and
hostility to restrictions on money in campaigns.
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That election also handed the Kochs their first political setback, driving
them to rethink their approach to libertarian ideas. Since then, they have
built a powerful network of political nonprofit groups that is exempt from
most campaign reporting requirements and contribution limits but will
spend tens of millions of dollars to influence the 2014 election. They
have exerted enormous influence on American politics, battling government
regulation and casting doubt on the urgency of climate change. Instead of
replacing the Republican Party, they have helped to profoundly reshape it.
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"The 1980 campaign was instructive in helping them learn what ideas
resonated," said Robert A. Tappan, a Koch Industries spokesman, "and at
the same time, giving them an understanding of the implications of the
electoral political process."
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Business Meets Politics
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The Kochs, heirs to a family oil refining and marketing business, were
unlikely entrants in a presidential campaign.
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Politics was a dangerous game for those in business, Charles Koch argued
in a 1974 speech to libertarian thinkers and business leaders in Dallas.
Subsidies and special treatment demanded by corporations had helped turn
Americans against free enterprise. Business had colluded with the Nixon
administration to design price controls and other "socialistic measures."
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The most effective response was not political action, Mr. Koch argued, but
investment in pro-capitalist research and educational programs.
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"The development of a well-financed cadre of sound proponents of the free
enterprise philosophy is the most critical need facing us today," he said,
according to a copy of his speech in a Libertarian Party archive at the
University of Virginia, one of thousands of documents reviewed by The New
York Times for this article. The Times was alerted to the archive by
American Bridge, a liberal political organization that has been critical
of the Kochs.
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By the end of 1974, Mr. Koch had helped found what would become the Cato
Institute, today one of the country's leading libertarian research
institutions. He was joined in that effort by Ed Crane, chairman of the
three-year-old Libertarian Party.
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