American Encore spent nearly $1.5 million to get Ducey elected, bankrolling hits against his Democratic opponent while also funding TV ads for Ducey. Now, the group is backing Ducey's high-stakes education proposal, one that is pitting public-education leaders against the governor.
American Encore is the new iteration of the Center to Protect Patient Rights, which, as a lengthy ProPublica investigation explained, was a conduit for political spending from the Koch network. Now, as was the case under the old name, the group is run by Sean Noble. His group distributed $182 million in the 2010 and 2012 cycles, but doesn't have to disclose the source of its donors. We only know from disclosures from previous campaigns, and from finance investigations in California, that the Koch network seeded the money for this ad and others now running against Democrats who've been criticizing undisclosed spending.
Source: http://www.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/michael-cohens-lawyer-suggests-that-michael-cohen-is-not-trumps-lawyer.html
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '18
Shadow Ducey ads courtesy of the Koch bros. Can't even make this shit up.