WASHINGTON — Top officials in the Koch brothers' political organization Monday released a staggering $889 million budget to fund the activities of the billionaires' sprawling network ahead of the 2016 presidential contest.
The budget, which pays for everything from advertising and data-gathering technology to grass-roots activism, was released to donors attending the annual winter meeting of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, according to an attendee.
Freedom Partners sits at the center of the vast operation, and in 2012 alone, spent nearly $240 million as it funded nearly three dozen organizations, ranging from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to smaller Tea Party groups.
The fundraising target is the latest indication that the industrialists at the center of the network, Charles and David Koch, intend to continue building an operation that could exceed the national political parties in size and scope to help advance their libertarian principles. The spending, unrivaled for an outside organization, represents more than double the nearly $400 million the Republican National Committee (RNC) raised and spent during the 2012 presidential election cycle......

 




SOME THOUGHTS OF A KOCH BROTHER FOR 2015/6

Je ne suis pas Charlie Hebdo,

and obviously I've got lots of dough.

 Instead I'm  a contrarian

and, though non sectarian,

I believe  that liberty of choice

 is essentially  Divine,

especially when the choice is  mine.

So I'll   use  889 million dollars to amplify my voice.



 Now I don't think that's really   extravagancy.

It'll   save many a politician from vagrancy,

besides, whoever said "this is the land of the free"

never tried to run a big company.


And  another thing that's nice is

at least  it won't be going to ISIS

to save the head of some  Japanese fellow

whose skin, I'd bet ,  is    yellow. 

hzl
1/27/15