hint, look for the hotel where all the rooms are booked and suddenly the restaurant is inexplicably off limits. politico.com broke the news on friday about the kochs pitch this year. this year the companys close allies are rolling out a new more integrate add proech to politics. that includes wading into republican primaries for the first time to ensure their ideal candidates end up on the ticket and also centralizing control of their network to limit headache-inducing freelancing by affiliated operatives. so the kochs are reportedly selling more influence over which candidates are running and more control over the network. all the non-profits with the hard to follow anonymous-sounding names that have been freelancing out there, right? more control. and good on politico for being able to report that out in advance of the meetings this weekend. because we know how secret they like to keep this stuff. i ve got to say, though, when that story broke i always wonder now, every time i se
david coke get together with other very wealthy people around palm springs. they try to hold the seminars in as much secrecy as possible. this was outside the coke s desert summit in 2011, and that was an off year for politics. but that year people did find out in advance where they were going to and when they were going to be there, and there was sort of a welcome party in reverse for the cokes and thash rich allies that year. that was 2011 when the cokes and their friends were presumably planning their strategy for the next election cycle. the next election cycle, of course, was 2012. a few weeks ago the washington post tallied up all the money the cokes and their network raised for the 2012 election cycle. and by the post s accounting, it looks like something on the order of about $400 million just for the 2012 election torn down into a warrant of most with