Americans for Prosperity has 2.3 million members, according to Wikipedia. Current headline, "The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for public tran

Americans for Prosperity has 2.3 million members, according to Wikipedia. Current headline, "The Koch brothers are campaigning against tax rises for public transit projects", is an improvement over original NYT insane "How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country" but still misleading. Kochs are financing a 2.3 million organization, which in part - by activities of their local activists, going door to door, which is impossible without wide support on the ground - opposes some public transportation projects. Which sometimes are a colossal waste of taxpayer money. For example: https://reason.com/blog/2018/05/22/corruption-incompetence-characterize-los https://reason.com/blog/2018/05/22/corruption-incompetence-c... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-construction-costs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-... https://reason.com/blog/2017/09/18/seattles-sound-transit-pays-100000-for-a https://reason.com/blog/2017/09/18/seattles-sound-transit-pa... https://www.aei.org/publication/whod-a-thunk-it-like-most-central-planning-public-transit-systems-often-fail-without-massive-taxpayer-subsidies/ https://www.aei.org/publication/whod-a-thunk-it-like-most-ce... and many more. From the article itself: Early polling here had suggested that the $5.4 billion transit plan would easily pass. It was backed by the city’s popular mayor and a coalition of businesses. Its supporters had outspent the opposition So the evil Koch's money was actually less than the benevolent whoever-that-was-NYT-is-not-going-to-tell-us's money. So how did it happen? “This is why grass roots works,” said Tori Venable, Tennessee state director for Americans for Prosperity, which made almost 42,000 phone calls and knocked on more than 6,000 doors. So it's not nefarious Koch Brothers and their dark magic. It's people on the ground making phone calls and knocking doors and convincing people that they are right. This is how democracy is supposed to work. But of course for NYT it is anathema since their side lost this time, so they would present it as some kind of dark magic of evil Satan brothers. I would want to say I expect better from NYT, but the times when I did has long passed.