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so in 2012 course the Koch brothers spent a tremendous amount of money
in politics in fact over $200 million of
an amazing depends on if you're counting the dark money
and all their affiliated groups that number might actually be significantly
higher
so how are they doing this time around well they're actually spending
ten times as much as them a all democratic group combine
in the 2014 elections the democrats actually don't even know what hit him be
like Jesus crisis started so early we haven't even had a chance to catch up
yet
we haven't had a chance to run a single ad these guys worry spent about $30
million dollars
unbelievable this early in an election cycle
so now last time in 2012
their place and work out so are the democrats kept the senate now BC
President Obama got reelected
so what do they do afterwards well be recalibrated
an they took in a lot of data and became new conclusions
and I'm Rick Wilson a Republican strategist six plays
there was an awful lot of introspection their Americans for Prosperity which is
on their main group
is dedicated to research their dedicated to doing this
quantifiable way so they didn't now so the research and the data to see what
went wrong
so here's our conclusions among the most recognizable changes from 2012 is that
Americans for Prosperity is now producing
testimonial style as an carry out an elaborate
field effort spending more than 30 million dollars already in at least
eight states with crucial senate races and is somehow
districts as well so at two things that they realize there is
we but need to put a fake
face in front of people and say holds personal and in fact if you've noticed
all the ads will be showing from the Koch brothers in this election cycle
have been almost all women by the way going out there saying
I'll Obama nearly killed me I had leukemia
we took a one-point want it so bad *** Spencer
know and I might die that was literally an ad and of course upon further
research it was
go found out that that woman actually would pay
less under Obamacare but banks are not the issues will explain a little bit
here
so put in a friendly face on it pretend tell real story
story even though or most the people in their ads
are actors and the ones that are not actors have been proven to be
like Democrats and others have challenged the specifics of the ads
and the use of actors in some spots but Americans for Prosperity
has not retreated of course they have effect look the point wasn't to tell the
truth
the point was figuring out our new weight to trick people
so what other ways is to tell these big stories now
second way is to do more field operations that will present Obama's
team was really good at
turns out in or do they appeal word they've hired 200 full-time
paid staff members in field offices and at least thirty-two states
you know what kinda money you have to have to hide that many people that many
states
but these guys have course billions of dollars to spend because they see
billions of dollars
in lower taxes and less regulation when they get the politicians that they paid
for
so they've just one the area
with field workers to compete with democrats now
here's an important question why you know
it this is been burrowing in the back of my mind as to why the OPP
Koch brothers cared so much about Obamacare why spend so much did
peep this when they're not primarily in the health care industry
even back to when they were running the bus is the pic the people and
air brought them to the end the Obamacare rallies in and the big
like painted hands on their get your hands off up our health care and all
that stuff
they're mainly in the energy industry why do they care about this an issue so
much well
this New York Times piece explains that quote they're also trip are trying to
present the law
as a case study in government ineptitude to change the way voters think
about the role of government for years to come in other words
no it's not that they care so much about Obamacare
d1 destroy Obamacare so that
if this president or any other president
propose a new government plan for example
to fight climate change which would affect the energy industry
a lot then they can come back op this
inept government that brought you Obama Care & that damn
bahco you're going to trust them to her tackle climate change
no no no no no no you see the government is terrible at
everything song make sure they do not regulate the energy industry
okay now that make sense that's the open
battle plan that's the end game in this the chessboard
alright in fact let me quote Tim Phillips
the the president Americans for Prosperity that's the Koch brothers
group
we have a broader cautionary tale the president's
out there touting billions of dollars on climate change
we want americans the thing about what they promised with the last social
welfare boondoggle
a look at what the actual results this in other words
yes our plan all along has been to kill Obamacare
so he doesn't come anywhere near doing climate change
or touching the energy industry because that's where their bread is buttered
so they will spend as much as they need to the have as many feel workers as
they need to and they will run as many misleading as
as as they need to to make sure that the defeat
any government proposal because the one thing they don't want the government to
do
is to regulate them