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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Dems seriously alarmed by Koch money"
Dems seriously alarmed by Koch moneyBy Greg Sargent at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/02/05/dems-seriously-alarmed-by-koch-money/
"SNIP......................................
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 its only February. So wheres 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:
Its unprecedented. It means that groups like ours have to go up early as well. We cant let those attacks go unchallenged.
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applegrove
Feb 2014
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I agree. Shine the light on those two bastards, they scurry like cockroaches when that happens.
bluestate10
Feb 2014
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spanone
(137,268 posts)1. best democracy money can buy
jsr
(7,712 posts)2. The Koch brothers should be a household word. Attack them by name.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)3. I agree. Shine the light on those two bastards, they scurry like cockroaches when that happens.
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:
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.