Totally unknown Koch-funded group was largest sugar daddy for conservatives in last election

[Triana]

An Arlington, Va.-based conservative group, whose existence until now was unknown to almost everyone in politics, raised and spent $250 million in 2012 to shape political and policy debate nationwide.

The group, Freedom Partners, and its president, Marc Short, serve as an outlet for the ideas and funds of the mysterious Koch brothers, cutting checks as large as $63 million to groups promoting conservative causes, according to an IRS document to be filed shortly.

The 38-page IRS filing amounts to the Rosetta Stone of the vast web of conservative groups — some prominent, some obscure — that spend time, money and resources to influence public debate, especially over Obamacare.

The group has about 200 donors, each paying at least $100,000 in annual dues. It raised $256 million in the year after its creation in November 2011, the document shows. And it made grants of $236 million — meaning a totally unknown group was the largest sugar daddy for conservative groups in the last election, second in total spending only to Karl Rove’s American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, which together spent about $300 million.

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[meow2u3]

1. The Kochs have to operate in the shadows: they're unconvicted criminals

Their relentless pursuit of dictatorial power has to be hid behind freedom (to pollute, to exploit workers, to kill) and liberty (read: liberty to flout the law with impunity) in order to try to con us into turning over the fruits of our labor to them.