Koch money aids in Wisconsin right-wing agenda

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Americans for Prosperity, the right-wing front group for conservative billionaire David Koch, a supporter of Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and beneficiary of many of his policies, has run hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of pro-Walker TV ads in Wisconsin.

But in the just-concluded state Senate recall election, they took their fight directly to the voters, mailing forms that looked like absentee ballots to at least 10,000 solidly Democratic voters. Not only were those forms not absentee ballots, they also told the reader to return the ballot by August 11, two days after the recall election was held. Additionally, the last page of the mailer was registered to the Wisconsin Family Action PAC, a far-right-wing advocacy organization that, like Americans for Prosperity, is not an absentee ballot processing center.

Democrats, understandably, were outraged. The Democratic Party of Wisconsin started legal action to force the Koch organization to cease distribution of these mailers, which they call a "dirty trick." Charles Shultz, a man from North Hudson, Wis., received the Koch mailer on July 28. After recognizing the obvious misinformation on the forms, he filed a voter suppression complaint against Americans for Prosperity, saying he believed their intended purpose was to discount his vote, and that he was targeted because he was a Democrat and a senior citizen.

For their part, the Wisconsin chapter of Americans for Prosperity blamed the (numerous) factual errors on a "typo."

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