Lets not forget the real evil that haunts our nation..


https://ourfuture.org/fact_sheet/koch-brothers-exposed-why-we-must-act-and-how


The Koch brothers have been behind:

A $45 million effort to buy control of Congress. That’s the amount of money Forbes magazine says Americans for Prosperity spent in the 2010 e******ns. That money helped Republicans control the House with the most extreme group of conservatives elected in modern history. With this group firmly in control, every effort by the Obama administration to move legislation to revive the economy has been thwarted and previous successes in health care and financial reform have come under unrelenting attack. The stream of anti-regulation, anti-labor legislation passed by the Tea Party-besotted House is pretty much lifted straight from the Koch brothers legislative agenda.
The destructive efforts of the American Legislative Exchange Council to co-opt state and local governments. Rather than promoting state and local governments as entities that are particularly equipped to respond to the public interest because of their proximity to the people, ALEC mounts campaigns that leave state and local governments facilitating private greed rather than serving the public good. In August The Nation’s Lisa Graves explained that “of all the Kochs’ investments in right-wing organizations, ALEC provides some of the best returns: it gives the Kochs a way to make their brand of free-market fundamentalism legally binding.” Examples include legislation that allows energy companies to avoid fines for polluting, that push privatization of public education, and that prevent states and localities from regulating the rogue behavior of financial institutions.
ALEC’s efforts to suppress v**er turnout. The Koch brothers’ fingerprints are all over the efforts by various Republican governors and legislatures to pass v**er ID laws that use trumped-up allegations of v***r f***d to deliberately disenfranchise v**ers most likely to oppose their agenda. “It was ALEC’s draft legislation that inspired a spate of recently passed v**er ID laws that, if allowed to stand, are expected to marginalize the impact of students and people of color at the polls in Texas, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Tennessee and Kansas,” Adele Stan reported for the AFL-CIO blog. Patrick Caldwell at the American Prospect wrote that “the rules are often configured specifically to favor the Republican base at the expense of excluding likely Democrats.”
Their assault on public workers. Scott Walker won the governorship of Wisconsin and the ability to execute his attack on public workers there with the help of $43,000 in direct contributions from the Koch Industries political action committee and indirectly through the $1 million that Koch’s PAC gave to the Republican Governors Association. The Kochs are also major supporters of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who earlier this year credited “the strong support” of Americans for Prosperity for his now faltering attempt to strip Ohio state workers of their bargaining rights.
The dominance of extremist candidates in the 2012 p**********l race. Koch bothers money can be found in the pockets of at least three of the most extreme Republican p**********l candidates: Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and, especially, Herman Cain. Rachel Maddow reported that the Cain connections include a campaign manager from the Wisconsin chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a now ex-spokesperson from another Americans for Prosperity affiliate, and the economic advisor who came up with Cain’s infamous “9-9-9” tax plan, who was a member of Americans for Prosperity’s advisory board. This is no surprise, because, as the Associated Press has reported, Cain has historically been a shill for the Americans for Prosperity legislative agenda.
A planned multimillion-dollar effort by the 1 Percent to determine the outcome of the 2012 p**********l e******n. The Koch brothers and a core group of super-rich conservatives earlier this year commandeered a hotel near Palm Springs, Calif., and together pledged $100 million to oppose President Obama’s re-e******n, with the Koch brothers pledging $60 million of the total. That’s just the start: POLITICO reported that the billionaire Koch brothers alone have announced their intention to spend more than $200 million on e******ns this fall and “potentially much more” through Americans for Prosperity and other fronts. That money, along with hundreds of millions more from other Wall Street and corporate titans, will prop up a Republican opponent who has so far failed to generate the levels of grassroots financial support the party’s candidates received in 2008. We’ve already seen how a single billionaire can keep a failed campaign on life support. Imagine a general e******n in which the voices and contributions of millions of people can be trumped by the bankrolls of a handful of moguls in a single hotel meeting room.