Senator Pat Toomey has voted with the Koch agenda 100% of the time this Congress.

In return, Charles and David Koch have used their network to drop over $10 million into the Pennsylvania Senate race on Toomey’s behalf.

The billionaire Kochs’ policy agenda is grounded in nothing but pure self-interest — they couldn’t care less about what’s best for Pennsylvania families.

So it’s telling that Pat Toomey has taken the Koch agenda and made it his own. And so long as Toomey keeps putting the Kochs first at the expense of Pennsylvania, Charles and David will spend whatever it takes to keep him in Washington.

Pennsylvanians deserve a senator who will put them first, and spineless Koch lackey Pat Toomey just doesn’t meet that description.

Background:

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In An Independent Expenditure Report Filing From November 3rd, Americans For Prosperity Reported Spending $2,540,644 On The Pennsylvania Senate Race. According to an FEC Schedule 5-E filing, Americans for […]

An explosion on the Koch owned Colonial Pipeline killed one person and sent five to a hospital Monday. The explosion burned 31 acres and the fire burned for nearly two days. This is the second time in two months that the critical pipeline has been shut down due to an accident in Alabama.

Koch Industries is the largest owner of Colonial Pipeline and makes an estimated $85 million a year in dividends from its operation. While Koch Industries makes a profit from their stake in the company, they will likely not face any charges for accidents on the pipeline because they have no liability associated with the company. House Democrats have called for a federal investigation into the latest explosion to try to get some answers.

Colonial Pipeline is a major artery for delivering oil from the Gulf to the East Coast. When accidents happen on the pipeline, consumers pay the price. […]

The Koch network’s faux-intellectual cover for the GOP-controlled Senate’s Supreme Court obstructionism reached a new pinnacle today. Cato Institute Senior Fellow Ilya Shapiro penned a piece arguing that–following a Clinton electoral victory–the Senate should, “vote against essentially every judicial nominee she names.” Shapiro laughably described this approach as “decent” and “honorable.” Shapiro’s editorial crescendoed to the claim that the Senate, “is fully within its powers to let the Supreme Court die out, literally.”

This is far from the first time that Koch-funded Cato has provided cover for McConnell’s refusal to even consider Supreme Court nominations. In February, Cato Institute Director of Health Policy Studies Michael Canon argued that the Senate didn’t have a responsibility to consider an Obama nomination and that the body can “withhold its consent anyway it wants.”

Fully pulling the mask away on the Cato Institute’s willingness to politicize the Court, Research Fellow Trevor Burrus suggested that the […]

Donald Trump’s “election protection” operation will be run by Mike Roman, former head of the Koch brothers’ “internal intelligence agency” and Vice President of Research at Freedom Partners.  Roman’s “cloak and dagger” operation inside the Koch universe sought to track and infiltrate opponents’ political activities while also rooting out “moles” inside the Koch universe.

Roman is also well known as someone willing to embrace the kind of “rigged election” narrative pushed by the Trump campaign. Rick Hasen, a election law professor at the University of California, Irvine, described Roman as, “Somebody who has been more willing to put forth more outrageous statements about voter fraud and election process.”

The Trump campaign’s accusations of widespread voter fraud and “rigged elections” are sure to intensify with the hiring of the Kochs’ Mike Roman.