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...Koch Industries, a petrol-to-paper towels conglomerate owned by the billionaire Republican donors Charles and David Koch, warned in December that the plan would “distort” the market....
...The eventual Republican nominee will be aided enormously by the king-making brothers Charles and David Koch, the rightwing donors who inherited an oil-refining empire. And the Clintons?...
...Meanwhile, Charles Koch, a bogeyman to liberals, is also advocating for liberalisation across the US....
...Billionaire mega-donors like the Koch Brothers have already pledged to raise nearly $900m through their own sprawling political network, to back conservative candidates....
...Mr Walker follows Rick Perry, the former Texas governor, whose campaign imploded earlier this month because of a lack of money. His departure still leaves 15 Republicans vying for the nomination....
...He will also target Florida’s Republican governor Rick Scott, who NextGen calls a “climate denier”, and the Republican governors of Maine and Pennsylvania....
...That means the money will probably go to a Christian conservative such as Rick Santorum, who is fanatical enough to tarnish his party’s electability....
...The speedy passage of two laws that would prevent workers from having to pay mandatory dues to their unions in the public and private sector, which was signed by Governor Rick Snyder after it was passed...
...During the Republican primaries, outside groups helped struggling candidates that would otherwise have been forced to withdraw – notably Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich – stay in the race....
...Rick Snyder, a pragmatic Republican governor elected in 2010, is touring the state to defeat measures that would require a two-thirds majority in the legislature to raise taxes and enshrine collective bargaining...
...Credit Rick Santorum with accepting the obvious: he lost. Despite winning 11 primaries, he was always more of an irritant than a plausible contender for the Republican nomination to be US president....
...Foster Friess has no doubt that Rick Santorum is the best man to be president in the field of Republican contenders. “Rick Santorum is a young, vibrant guy....
...The Kochs are white and Mr Cain is black....
...The conservative industrialist Koch brothers have vowed to spend as much as $400m this election year through super-Pacs to support politicians with whom they are sympathetic....
...Reclusive billionaires such as the Koch brothers and Art Pope of North Carolina will doubtless be splashing out....
...In any case, the Republican nominee is already friends with the likes of Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas gaming billionaire, and the Koch brothers....
...Some Wall Street titans and influential Republican donors turned off their televisions and picked up their telephones following last week’s shaky debate performance by Rick Perry, the presumed frontrunner...
...The candidates for the Republican nomination who are true to the movement’s roots – fiscal and social conservatives such as Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry – have crashed in the polls, and Herman Cain looks...
...Governor Rick Perry of Texas, big hair and lantern-jawed, was the flavour of last month but appalling performances in debates and the nasty little question of the hunting property he leased in Texas that...
...Because at that point forward, the Soviets and the communists knew Ronald Reagan was not a pushover,” Mr Walker told a blogger posing as David Koch, the industrial magnate and an important financial backer...
...“There are very few people in a business school environment doing research in these areas, and people’s research tends to drive what they teach,” says Rick Bunch, managing director of The Erb Institute....
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