"The Original Koch Brothers Campaign"

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The Original Koch Brothers Campaign

by Sam Stein at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/19/koch-brothers_n_4992982.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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A review of newspaper records shows that the first real mention of the brothers came in 1979, when David Koch wrote a check for $1,000 to the Libertarian Party's Ed Clark. Five months later, Clark picked Koch as his running mate and Koch "returned the favor" –- as the Associated Press put it –- giving more than $1 million of his personal wealth to the ticket.

Shortly thereafter, a young E.J. Dionne Jr. (currently a columnist for The Washington Post, then a reporter with The New York Times) dug in a bit on the brother's network of political influence. The name was pronounced "coke" he wrote, and they were "not related to New York City's Mayor." But they were players.


Many of the Koch-financed efforts have been designed to increase the Libertarians' attractiveness to liberals and the left and to dispel the reputation that Libertarians have as eccentrics. This reputation has been fostered by the advocacy by some Libertarians of arcane theories about gold and money and by the involvement of other Libertarians in plans to start island republics of their own, something a group of people calling themselves Libertarians tried to do recently in the New Hebrides.



In 1984, The New York Times ran a piece on David Koch titled "Man Without a Candidate," in which he would profess to being done with the sharp-elbowed politics.




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