Billionaire Koch Industries, The Owners Of The Wisconsin Governor, Instructed 50,000 Employees How They Were Supposed To Vote In 2010 Elections

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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his owners, the Billionaire Koch Brothers

Writing today in the Nation, Mark Ames and Mike Elk reveal that Koch Industries mailed a letters to 50,000 employees instructing them on who to vote for in the 2010 midterm elections.

The Koch packet given to employees included candidate names, a letter from a Koch lobbyist, and a right-wing screed from the company and the Washington Examiner, an outlet owned by Phil Anschutz, a billionaire who is close to the Koch family. (View a copy of the packet here.)

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Billionaire Koch Industries, owners of union-busting Wisconsin Governor, buying ads to refute news stories

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Charles and David Koch, owners of Koch Industries, were principle financiers of Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker and the tea party movement. They are also supporters of groups like Americans for Prosperity, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and the Reason Foundation.

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