President Barack Obama has made it clear that he despises the tax-exempt nonprofit groups that play in politics. Yet now his own campaign is becoming one of them. The nonprofit Americans for Prosperity — a frequent target of Obama’s criticism...
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Americans for Prosperity Group activists attend a rally in Manhattan on Sept. 20, 2012 in New York City.
Anti-Obama Nonprofit Calls Out Pro-Obama Nonprofit: ‘Hypocrisy’
Hundreds of supporters signed the American Energy Alliance bus, a project by led by Sean Noble. Photograph by Allie Robinson/Bristol Herald Courier via AP Photo
Koch Network Rides to Rescue of … Koch Business Interests
The Center to Protect Patient Rights funneled $62 million into a series of nonprofit groups for the 2010 elections. The sources of the money were hidden from public view, Bloomberg reports. The center was headed by Sean Noble, a former...
Read more »Secretly Funded Democratic Group Targets Koch Brothers for Secrecy
It has come to this in a campaign season awash with money from unknown sources: A secretly funded Democratic group is running a TV ad naming the Koch brothers as the secret donors of Republican groups. In a 30-second spot...
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David Koch, executive vice president of chemical technology for Koch Industries Inc., center, at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
David Koch Named as Romney Convention Delegate From New York
Billionaire industrialist — not to mention major financial supporter of Republican causes — David Koch has been named as one of Mitt Romney’s delegates to the convention later this month in Tampa. Koch, 72, is one of 95 delegates chosen...
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Protestors from MoveOn.org, the Occupy Movement and the Long Island Progressive during a fundraiser for Mitt Romney on July 8, 2012, in Southampton, N.Y.
Romney’s `Koch Problem:’ $3 Million
Protesters unfurled a “Koch Kills” banner and shouted “shame on you” as wealthy donors to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney rounded a corner in Range Rovers, Denalis and other dark-colored luxury vehicles on their way to a fundraiser at...
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