“At the January meeting of the Koch brothers’ donor network, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) scoffed at the idea that the deep-pocketed contributors he had come to court for his presidential bid want anything in return for all the money they pump into politics. “I don’t know a single person in this room has ever been to my office,” he told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, who was moderating a panel that included Rubio.
Maybe.
The attendees at that event were not publicly identified, but a number of major donors to the Koch network and participants in earlier conferences organized by the billionaire brothers spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying Washington last year. And a number of lobbyists employed by organizations represented at Koch confabs have donated to Rubio—and hosted fundraisers for him.
It’s possible the donors Rubio was hoping to impress at the January conference—organized by the Koch brothers as part of their effort to raise as much as $890 million to sway the 2016 elections—are writing checks to candidates for purely altruistic reasons.”
Read more here:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/marco-rubio-koch-network-lobbying
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) & John Iadarola (Think Tank; http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola) of the Young Turks break it down.
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