American Bridge starts Koch project

American Bridge 21st Century Foundation on Thursday will announce a research and rapid-response digital project aimed at the Koch brothers, launching with a national and D.C. cable ad buy and three full-time staffers.

American Bridge founder and chairman David Brock called the project “a research-and-communications, first-of-its-kind war room that’s targeting the Koch brothers and also the GOP candidates who are benefiting” from their spending.


”Senator Reid and the Senate leadership have raised this as an issue,” Brock said in an interview with “Open Mike”. “This is the party of Koch, and we want Americans to understand what that means in their daily lives. It will basically have two aspects to it. One is expose and rebut … their self-serving policy agenda, not only nationally, but in the states.”

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Brock added, “Secondly, we’re going to do some really deep-dive research into Koch industries and related entities and their businesses practices. And at the end of the day what we’re going to show is that the Kochs are leaders of a freakish ideological cult that is designed to rig the system to their benefit and to rob Americans of Social Security and decent wages. … I think that the Kochs don’t view their investments politically as investments in the country but in their companies.”

Koch Industries senior vice president and general counsel Mark Holden responded Thursday by saying this isn’t the first time his company had seen “dishonest political attacks”.

“This is nothing new, as American Bridge has falsely attacked us in the past. They are part of the well-funded, concerted, and dishonest political attacks against us that have been going on for the past four years. Despite these cynical attacks, Koch will continue to advocate for policies that will help all people improve their lives and that promote a free society.”