New Republic: Conservatives Are Sacrificing Scott Walker for a Higher Cause (In the News)

June 23, 2014   •  By Generic User
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By Bruce Murphy

O’Keefe is independently wealthy and has worked for decades as a political activist crusading against the power of political incumbency, in favor of term limits and against the post-Watergate campaign-finance law, whose “actual intent … was to handicap challengers and therefore entrench incumbents,” he has written. David Koch felt the same way: The law “makes my blood boil,” he wrote in a letter to Libertarian Party members. O’Keefe went on to join, fund, and often found a long list of interconnected political organizations, many also connected to the Koch brothers, including the Center for Competitive Politics, one of the leading right-wing groups fighting against limits on money in politics.

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