Koch Network Alone To Spend More To Defeat Obama In 2012 Than McCain Raised In All Of 2008

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We’ve warned before that 2012 will be the greatest election bought and sold. Now, Politico is reporting that outside groups are preparing to spend upwards of $1 billion this year to defeat President Obama and elect more big business-friendly lawmakers to Congress.

To put these numbers in perspective, the Koch network alone — the political machine headed by plutocrats David and Charles Koch and funded by other billionaires — plans to spend more money this year than every dollar raised by John McCain’s campaign in 2008:

Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives – including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November’s elections for the White House and control of Congress, according to officials familiar with the groups’ internal operations.

That total includes previously undisclosed plans for newly aggressive spending by the Koch brothers, who are steering funding to build sophisticated, county-by-county operations in key states. POLITICO has learned that Koch-related organizations plan to spend about $400 million ahead of the 2012 elections – twice what they had been expected to commit. Just the spending linked to the Koch network is more than the $370 million that John McCain raised for his entire presidential campaign four years ago.

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/koch-mccain-obama/

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1. They realized in 2008 that they would never be able to beat Obama without Citizens United

and they are still going to fail.

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2. These are the people we are letting buy our elections

Report Shows Koch Brothers Made Sales to Iran,Bribed Officials,and Falsified Data
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-46840786/report-koch-brothers-made-sales-to-iran/

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3. These are people who are willing to spend more on elections than paying their taxes.

Make no mistake. They are not worried about losing any money...they are more worried about the 99% getting any.