Kochs' "Grassroots Leadership Academy" Is Training an Astroturf Army
With no clear favorite in the 2016 U.S. presidential primary race -- following Gov. Scott Walker's early exit and Trump's march toward the nomination -- the Koch brothers have turned their attention (and opened their wallets) to races for the U.S. Senate, U.S. House and state governorships.
But with the Kochs having already spent at least $400 million of $889 million committed to the 2016 election cycle, according to news reports, where is that money being spent?
An under-covered arm of the Koch political operations is a likely recipient of some of that cash and it's called Americans for Prosperity's "Grassroots Leadership Academy."
Koch Ground Troops
The Republican Party has long been disadvantaged in the electoral ground game. It does not have as many community-based institutions to knock on doors and pass out literature as the Democratic Party, which enjoys broad backing from unions and other community-based organizations.
This is why the Kochs built the multi-million dollar political operation, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), which spends millions on phony "issue ads" in the election cycle and also recruits the Kochs' "grassroots."
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/36059-kochs-grassroots-leadership-academy-training-astroturf-army
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