Americans for Prosperity Foundation
TROY, MI - FEBRUARY 25: Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney listens as his wife Ann Romney addresses the Americans for Prosperity Presidential Forum on February 25, 2012 in Troy, Michigan. Michigan residents will go to the polls on February 28 to vote their choice for the Republican presidential nominee.
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The Koch brothers were involved in the founding of Americans for Prosperity and contribute to it, but they are just two out of 90,000 donors.
The way David [Koch] put it was, ‘We would like you to provide intellectual ammunition that we can then use at Americans for Prosperity and our allied organizations.’ AFP and others would apply Cato’s work to advance their electoral goals.
You are all probably aware by now of the unfortunate development with Charles and David Koch. They are in the process of trying to take over the Cato Institute and, in my opinion, reduce it to a partisan adjunct to Americans for Prosperity, the activist GOP group they control.More quotes »
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Koch Brothers' Americans For Prosperity Goes All Out in Wisconsin Recall--And Denies It!
special interest group Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is busing-in out-of-state Tea Partiers and spending millions on advertisements, rallies, and phone banks in the weeks before recall elections for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, from AlterNet.org Read more »
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Scott Rasmussen, Jonah Goldberg, Dana Loesch, SE Cupp to Speak at 2012...
Americans for Prosperity Foundation announced that pollster Scott Rasmussen, writer Jonah Goldberg, Big Journalism editor Dana Loesch, and blogger SE Cupp will speak at the fifth annual RightOnline Conference (http://www.RightOnline.com) to be held in Las from PRWeb Read more »
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Romney Narrows Obama Fund-Raising Edge
spent through tax-exempt issue-advocacy organizations that are not required to disclose their spending, like Americans for Prosperity, founded by the billionaire Koch brothers, who have reportedly pledged to steer at least $200 million to conservative advocacy from The New York Times Read more »
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Obradovich: Obama could fuel a Culver comeback
of his own. Culver held a conference call with reporters earlier this month in response to events sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, an issue-advocacy group that opposes Obamas green-energy agenda. Last week, Culver traveled to Kansas City for an event from Des Moines Register Read more »
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AFP drops $260K on Kerrey attack ad in Nebraska
for Prosperity, a conservative group headed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has spent $260,000 for a new statewide television ad dubbing Kerrey "Bailout Bob" for supporting the 2008 $700 billion bank bailout. The ad, which began airing across the state from San Antonio Express Read more »
