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The Nation
June 19, 2005
Max Blumenthal
In June 1996...Triad Management Services, a shady, for-profit corporation run by a veteran Republican fundraiser...funneled cash to Brownback's campaign through its scores of clients...Triad's finance director even accompanied Brownback to Republican headquarters to dial for dollars.
Under federal election law, corporations are not allowed to make direct contributions or provide free services (like fundraising help) to politicians...Triad steered $410,000 to a front group, Citizens for the Republic Education Fund, that ran a single attack ad against Docking [Brownback's opponent] repeatedly throughout a two-week period, propelling Brownback to victory. Democratic Senate investigators believe this money came almost entirely from the Wichita-based Koch Industries, America's largest privately owned energy company, which had already contributed more than $30,000 to Brownback's campaign.
...Brownback...has been the darling of the Koch Family Foundation...[he] has a 100 percent rating from the Cato Institute, [a] think tank founded by Charles Koch, who directs it along with his brother David...Brownback [wrote a blurb for] a Cato-published book promoting the privatization of Social Security, and he supports Cato's efforts to gut environmental regulations like the Oil Pollution Act and the Clean Water Act, which have been used to levy $35 million in fines against Koch Industries for illegally dumping waste across the country. The Koch family [donated] $64,000 to his 2002 re-election campaign and $30,000 to his Restore America PAC. That same year, Brownback was fined by the Federal Election Commission for violating election guidelines in 1996 through his dealings with Triad Management.
Also see:
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation 
Cato Institute
Cato Institute Triad Management Services at SourceWatch
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