Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Party of the Koch Brothers
Brothers David and Charles Koch are two of the biggest, most controversial players in conservative politics because of the massive amount of money and influence they wield. Now the Kochs have given Democrats a new reason to hate/fear them: they and their network of donors have announced they’ll be spending $889 million on the election in 2016.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readBrothers David and Charles Koch are two of the biggest, most controversial players in conservative politics because of the massive amount of money and influence they wield. Now the Kochs have given Democrats a new reason to hate/fear them: they and their network of donors have announced they’ll be spending $889 million on the election in 2016. That figure more than doubles what the actual Republican National Committee spent in the last Presidential race.
