MITT ROMNEY HAS M E L B O R P ” H C O K “ A Facts about one of the candidate’s largest supporters, David Koch 1.) David Koch, through his group Americans for Prosperity, has spent nearly $11 million to help Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union and anti-public education agenda. 2.) David Koch has spent millions fighting against expanded healthcare access, through Americans for Prosperity and has bought intentionally deceptive ad space to confuse voters on the facts surrounding expanded healthcare initiatives. 3.) The Koch brothers have given nearly $100 million to right-wing think tanks, so they can push their regressive policies on legislators in both Washington and across the country. 4.) The Koch brothers have spent millions supporting Citizens United, a court ruling which opened the floodgates for corporations to have unlimited influence on elections. 5.) The Koch Brothers are one of the nation’s biggest funders of efforts to prevent reductions in fossil fuel use. They actively spend to defend the interests of Koch Industries which has grossed billions for the Koch Brothers despite having more than 300 spills in 6 states, and one of the largest fines ever imposed upon a US corporation. 6.) David and Charles Koch have donated at the very least $1.5 million dollars to the controversial American Legislative Exchange Counsel (ALEC), authors of the infamous “Stand Your Ground” law which emboldened Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman. David and Charles Koch have continued to support ALEC as the group continues to draft model legislation to maximize Koch profits. 7.) In 2000, David and Charles Koch’ company was indicted on criminal charges related to the dumping of 91 tons of liquid benzene, a chemical linked to childhood leukemia, into a stream in Corpus Christie, Texas. After successfully lobbying the newly appointed Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2001 David and Charles reduced their criminal counts to a $350 million dollar fine for falsifying documents related to the dumping. 8.) In 2011 David & Charles Koch pledged to donate $100 million dollars to whoever runs against president Obama and expanded their promise by saying they would fundraise 10 times that of the Obama campaign. 9.) David Koch has spent $3.6 million on misleading ads blaming specific government officials for high gasoline prices despite knowing that the governing bodies that regulate prices are autonomous from any political group in the United States. 10.) David Koch thinks democracy is something that can be bought and sold to the highest bidder.
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