Koch-Supporting Texas Billionaires Explain What Richest Americans Are After They complain and complain, but can't recognize themselves in the mirror. By Steven Rosenfeld / AlterNet This is rich. Some of the wealthiest Texans who attended the Koch brothers’ political donor conference last month—where participants set a goal of raising $889 million for the 2016 elections—are saying that all the Kochs really want is to end “special interests” influence in Washington.
“We attended that meeting — and we have an answer,” wrote Doug and Holly Deason of Dallas, in a Dallas Morning News column co-signed by eight other wealthy Texans. “We want Washington to do what it hasn’t done for years: work for, not against, the American people.”
Um, nice try. But if you are as wealthy and powerful as s
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