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>...George Soros, who's donated far more money and influenced far more country's politics... Prior to 2012, that was probably true: http://www.opensecrets.org
by mtviewdave 10y ago
>...George Soros, who's donated far more money and influenced far more country's politics...
Prior to 2012, that was probably true:
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/opensecrets-battle-koch-brothers/ http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/opensecrets-battle-k...
But since then, the Koch brothers really ramped it up. The Koch brothers spent an estimated $412MM in the 2012 election alone, about an order of magnitude more than the amount Soros spent in the entire previous decade:
http://www.thenation.com/article/koch-brothers-spent-twice-much-2012-election-top-ten-unions-combined/ http://www.thenation.com/article/koch-brothers-spent-twice-m...
Combine the $412MM they spent in 2012 with the $900MM they want to spend in 2016, and that's ~$1.3 billion this decade, compared to Soros's ~$40 million in the last. That's not even close to the same level. And I haven't found any evidence that Soros is spending at the same level as the Koch brothers this decade.
- jtuente 10y agoYou wouldn't happen to have a breakdown of the $412M spent by the Koch brothers would you? Like who, what, where, how much. Because that number includes $5M spent by the Koch brothers PAC and $407M spent by undisclosed campaign entities. Even of the $5M spent by the Koch brothers PAC, not all of that is necessarily Koch brothers' money. As such, using the $412M figure is rather disingenuous at best.