One of the 4,900 Koch ads run in Michigan, the debunked Julie Boonstra.
There are 36 Senate seats up for grabs this cycle. Think how many political ads that means, even considering that many of the seats just aren't competitive. That makes the fact that the Koch brothers' networks is responsible for
one in 10 of all the ads run so far this cycle—in Senate races alone—astounding. As is the sheer number of ads they've pushed.
The secretive political network of conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch has aired more than 43,900 television ads this election cycle in an attempt to help Republicans take control of the Senate in the upcoming November election. That amounts to nearly 1 out of every 10 TV ads in the 2014 battle for the Senate. […]
No other right-leaning coalition has been as active. Even the two main big-money committees co-founded by GOP strategist Karl Rove—American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS—have only aired about half as many ads to date as these six Koch-connected groups. In all, Americans for Prosperity, the Koch brothers' flagship political operation, alone has aired more than 27,000 ads in a combined nine battleground states, according to Kantar Media/CMAG. […]
Through the end of August, this spending spree has included about 8,600 ads in North Carolina, 6,900 ads in Louisiana, 5,800 ads in Iowa, 4,900 ads in Michigan, 4,700 ads in Arkansas, 4,600 ads in Colorado, 3,600 ads in Alaska, and 2,400 ads in Oregon, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of Kantar Media/CMAG data.
It's beginning to look
more and more like the GOP is just a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kochs.