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Title: Koch-Backed Network to Dump $889 Million into 2016 Election Post by: jaysabi on January 28, 2015, 08:25:25 PM https://i.imgur.com/LSUyTCQ.jpg
The figure is more than double the amount spent by the RNC in the 2012 election. Told of the $889 million goal, Mark McKinnon, a veteran GOP operative who has worked to rally Republican support to reduce the role of money in politics, quipped: “For that kind of money, you could buy yourself a president. Oh, right. That’s the point.” Read more: Politico (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/koch-2016-spending-goal-114604.htm) / Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-backed-network-aims-to-spend-nearly-1-billion-on-2016-elections/2015/01/26/77a44654-a513-11e4-a06b-9df2002b86a0_story.html) / New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html) |
