The Dutchman

Harry (the mouth of socialism) Reid Has All The Democrats Bashing The Koch Brothers – Even The Ones Accepting Their Money
March 13, 2014 by Ben Bullard

While you may be weary of seeing the Koch brothers’ political influence called out at every turn, get ready to see a lot more of it before the year’s out.

Castigating the Koch brothers for their political action committee spending has evidently become a key Democratic Party red herring for the 2014 Congressional midterm election season, despite the Kochs’ relatively low ranking among a union-dominated list of top political donors that heavily – very heavily – favors Democrats.

And what’s fashionable doesn’t necessarily have to be right. Undoubtedly taking cues from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who is becoming increasingly fixated on blaming the Koch brothers for everything he can think of, Democrats are even beginning to criticize the wealthy oil magnates for donating to Republicans in instances in which they have, in fact, supported Democrats.

Take embattled Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat who’s facing an uphill climb to hang on to her seat this year. The Democratic Senate Majority PAC has begun slamming one of Landrieu’s Republicans challengers, Bill Cassidy, for his alleged connections with the Koch brothers.

The only problem? Koch Industries has been one of Landrieu’s biggest donors throughout her Senate career, and a Koch-funded PAC has supported her in previous election cycles. From The Washington Free Beacon Thursday:

…Sen. Landrieu has received $27,000 in campaign contributions since 2000 from Koch Industries and its subsidiaries and employees, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Koch’s political action committee has given Landrieu’s another $35,000, including $15,000 during the current election cycle, making the company one of her PAC’s top 20 donors.

While the company or its employees have not donated to Landrieu in this cycle, they have donated to the Louisiana Democrat in every other election cycle since 2000—even when she was not actually facing reelection.

Landrieu’s campaign isn’t the only example. Her colleague, Democrat Mark Pryor of Arkansas, has also taken public swings at the Koch brothers, even though his campaign accepted $5,000 from their political action committee late last year. “Pryor’s PAC took a total of $25,000 from the company,”

3jack

How does this look?


How much has Americans for Prosperity spent against Landrieu recently? According to Rebecca Shabad, its last ad buy against Landrieu was $750,000. A previous ad buy, a month earlier, cost $600,000.

That's $1.35 million from the main Koch political group in three months against Landrieu, compared with $27,000 for Landrieu in the last 14 years combined. It's almost like donors with billions of dollars to spend can afford to hedge their bets

The Dutchman

Looks like some figures you pulled out of thin air or pulled off of one of your liberal blogs.... Yep, looks as though it came from slate.com blog... Give us a break!!

3jack

Looks better and is more correct than that crap you posted.

The Dutchman

The Dutchman wrote:
Looks like some figures you pulled out of thin air or pulled off of one of your liberal blogs.... Yep, looks as though it came from slate.com blog... Give us a break!!



What I posted is fact whereas what you post is just your twisted opinion with nothing to support it

Hungry Freaks

Of course lobbyists hedge their bets. At least most try to spend ALMOST as much on both sides. The Koch Bros spent how much on Romney's campaign? What was it-like $250 million? It was far in excess of $100 million.

Or to Scott Walker's campaign.

Hey, it's a free country-they can give their money to whomever they want. You just gotta wonder what they expect in exchange for that kind of money.

All lobbyists expect something. Those spending hundreds of millions expect even more.

rumitoid

Sane people on either side object to the most dollars, not votes, determining elections. Superpacts are disgusting beyond imagining for this nation. ALL superpacts--those that helped elect Obama as well.

3jack

I never said it wasn't facts, but what I posted offset those facts with facts showing how much the Koch brothers spent AGAINST Senator Landrieu. $1.3 Million spent in 6 months against $27,000 in 14 years.

You have never posted anything with an original thought. Everything you post comes from some right wing site that specialize in embellishing points to support their views, so don't criticize someone for doing exactly what you continuously do, hypocrite.