This Week on RealKochFacts.com

http://realkochfacts.com/ Dear Friend: American Bridge has your weekly recap of all things Koch. This week? The Kochs helped kill renewable energy in Ohio, Americans For Prosperity threw a party for Thom Tillis's anti-middle class policy agenda, and we took a look back in time to see what's changed between the Kochs' agenda 30 years ago and today (hint: not much). Read below for your weekly dose of Real Koch Facts. Sincerely, Brad Woodhouse American Bridge 21st Century Then & Now: Koch Attacks on Medicare In David Koch's 1980 VP bid, his ticket supported cutting payments to Medicare contractors in half. Over 30 years later, the Kochs are still at it. AFP has backed budgets that "would essentially end Medicare" according to the Wall Street Journal... Read More AFP Holds Rallies To Celebrate Thom Tillis’s Extreme Policies In NC The Koch brothers, by way of their political group Americans for Prosperity, have made North Carolina one one of their flagship states for pushing their extreme agenda. They helped pour money into races in 2010 and 2012 to fill the state legislature with Republicans who would push their ultra-conservative policies, and it worked. Now, Speaker of the NC House and US Senate candidate Thom Tillis is running the show... Read More Then & Now: Koch Efforts to Deregulate Wall Street In 1980, the Ed Clark-David Koch ticket sent out a white paper calling for abolishing the SEC and deregulating the securities markets. Three decades later, AFP has repeatedly key voted against consumer protection legislation, scaring Republicans into pushing the Kochs' self-serving agenda... Read More Then & Now: Koch Support for Tax Cuts for the Wealthy In 1980, the Ed Clark-David Koch campaign proposed cutting capital gains tax rates in half and rolling back taxes on big oil companies like Koch Industries. Nothing has changed. AFP has consistently scored votes in favor of reducing taxes for the wealthy and shifting more of the tax burden onto the middle class... Read More Kochs Help Deal Defeat To Renewable Energy In Ohio Score another victory for the Kochs in their self-serving campaign to protect oil profits at all costs. Ohio’s burgeoning renewable energy industry was dealt a major blow yesterday as the Cleveland Dispatch announced that Governor Kasich would sign the AFP-backed bill to freeze energy efficiency incentives... Read More This Just In: Koch brothers back for more in Wisconsin In 2011 and 2012, the Koch brothers-backed Americans for Prosperity spent $10 million backing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s policies, and this election year is shaping up to be no different. AFP is kicking off a major paid media blitz in Wisconsin this week in support of Walker in the midst of what many polls show is a tightening reelection race this fall... Read More National Review: Hey, You Forgot To Mention How Successful The Kochs’ Self-Serving Crusade Has Been! It’s good to know that there is bipartisan consensus that the Kochs have been on a decades-long self-serving crusade to augment their oil fortune. National Review just wants you to know that it’s been successful... Read More