Similar meetings took place between business people in other states and leaders of other AFP chapters in Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Most of the meetings also featured executives of Koch Industries.

Mother Jones explains the significance of the document:

“In the past, Koch Industries has distanced itself from AFP and its political activities. The company has said the group is just one of 'hundreds of organizations' that receive funding from the Kochs and that it operates 'independently' of Koch Industries. But the document suggests a close collaboration between officials of Koch Industries, AFP and Freedom Partners, whose staff and board are stacked with numerous current and former Koch Industries employees.”

Ever since Gov. Scott Walker’s election in 2010, the Kochs have been an ever-present political force in Wisconsin. Americans for Prosperity boasted that it spent over $10 million on efforts to boost Republican recall candidates and it and Koch Industries have mounted aggressive lobbying efforts in support of a controversial mining bill that Walker signed into law last year.

While the Kochs support of many Walker policies, from gutting collective bargaining for public workers to cutting corporate taxes, which are in line with their longtime advocacy for libertarian or conservative economic solutions, some suspect that the Kochs have a particular interest in Wisconsin because of the potential the state’s frac sand reserves holds for the Kochs’ oil businesses.

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