By Maggie Severns
With just weeks to go (click here) before the midterm elections, the massive Koch network is adding a new super PAC to its political arsenal.
The new super PAC, AFP Action, will give the Koch network’s largest arm — Americans for Prosperity — significantly more leeway to push lawmakers directly on political issues, adding another tool to AFP’s arsenal at a moment when the Koch network is trying to assert its power in Washington....
Does Paul Ryan get to run this one? Too soon, huh?
AFP Action App (click here)
You can donate. Oh, look, they have career options. Nothing like working for a Dark Money arm of the Koch bros.
Any newly minted Democrats want a job? Go do this thing! Go join the fight! Everyday is a fight for the Kochs.
Wow, people can even volunteer. Of course.
Careers (click here)
Go to work for the Kochs, the largest $400 million sleazebag outfit in the USA!
...Americans for Prosperity’s existing organization, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, is required by law to spend a significant amount of money on “social welfare” activities and cannot expressly urge voters to cast ballots for or against a member of Congress. But the new AFP Action super PAC can expand that work by spending unlimited sums of money on political activities....
“Our mission is to help improve lives by breaking the barriers holding people back, and that requires building the policy coalitions in Washington to get it done,” Riggs said. “Americans for Prosperity has been a difference-maker supporting policy champions in tight races, and AFP Action is a new tool that will allow us to expand those efforts and make an even larger impact.”
That is a lie. The largest number of employees that work for Koch in jobs that actually pay a living wage are family. The Kochs don't mean a word of this. It should read:
“Our mission is to help ourselves to deregulation that kills people by breaking the barriers holding the Koch Industries hostage to the climate crisis and that requires building the policy coalitions in Washington to get it done,” Riggs said. “Americans for Prosperity has been a difference-maker supporting policy champions in tight races, and AFP Action is a new tool that will allow us to expand those efforts and make an even larger impact.”
August 14, 2018
...The new infusion of Koch cash into China (click here) comes in addition to more than $600 million INVISTA has invested in China over the past five years.
Koch Industries certainly has the money. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which slashed tax rates for corporations and the wealthy, is expected to provide the Kochs, as individuals and as partners in Koch Industries, with a windfall of as much as $1.4 billion per year.
Meanwhile, Koch subsidiaries in the United States have announced hundreds of layoffs this year....
