The latest evidence that the Koch brothers’ shameless self-interest knows no bounds: Charles and David are struggling to find American supporters of their selfish agenda — so they’re looking overseas. In 2014 alone, Demeter Analytics — the holding company for the Kochs’ voter file data firm, i360 — applied for 7 H-1B visas, which allow employers to hire foreign workers for temporary employment in “specialty occupations.” Yes, the two billionaires are effectively outsourcing their attacks on middle class American families.
i360 is instrumental to the Kochs’ 2016 plans because it aggregates voter information from the range of Koch front groups and contracts out access to Ben Carson and much of the rest of the GOP field. (The one notable exception is Donald Trump, to whom the Kochs have refused access.)
The brothers use Koch network organizations like their sham Latino outreach group, the LIBRE Initiative, to amass voter data at candidate forums and other events, and even use the “driving classes, tax-preparation help, or health checkups that Libre offers” to bolster their ever-growing list. Voters’ personal information then “flows back into an enormous voter database owned and controlled” by i360, where it is aggregated with data from “other groups in the network — Americans for Prosperity, Concerned Veterans for America, [and] Concerned Women for America,” according to National Review.
Yes, Charles and David Koch are desperate and willing to do anything — and spend any amount — to expand their influence and advance their selfish agenda. And to our ever-expanding list of above-and-beyond Koch efforts to get what they want, we can now add: “Outsourcing their attacks on the interests of working American families.” We know Charles and David’s priorities are both selfish and unpopular — remember: the more people learn about the two brothers and their agenda, the more they dislike them — but who would have thought they would be forced to look overseas to find willing accomplices in their political machinations?