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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by tsotha on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @05:26AM (#10337648)
>Tu quoque fallacy. Maybe the Kochs are an easy target because they do it at a scale never before imagined - their annual spending on their political projects easily eclipses Steyer's entire net worth...

Oh? They spend more than a billion dollars every year? Please, sign me up for your newsletter.

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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:06AM (#10337815)
Their "Freedom Partners" group publicly announced a budget of $889 million for 2016.

I'm not sure what Steyer is worth, he's referred to as a billionaire so that would suggest slightly more than that figure, but it's not so far away as to require a sarcastic response.

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Re:How the Koch brothers and the super-rich are buying their... by tsotha on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:31AM (#10337894)
Eh... no. The total spending of all the groups the Koch brothers support (including Freedom Partners) is $889m. But that's not what the Koch brothers are spending, that's the total spending of all the groups they support. The amount of money they spent is a tiny fraction of that number.

For more realistic numbers this is a good place to start:

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/09/opensecrets-battle-k...

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