Today, Marco Rubio released his energy plan, promising to help American “take full advantage of our energy potential.” But his plan reads like a Koch Industries wishlist: Rubio pushes to end the oil export ban, build Keystone despite environmental concerns, and phase out the Renewable Fuel Standard.

In response to Rubio’s plan, American Bridge President Jessica Mackler released the following statement:

“Marco Rubio says his energy plan will bring the country into a the 21st century. However, the ever-absent senator’s policies aren’t original or groundbreaking. Rubio is advocating for outdated practices that would take us back decades in addressing climate change. Just like Jeb Bush and the rest of the GOP field, Marco Rubio’s plan promises to protect big oil and the Koch brothers, instead of growing clean energy and protecting the environment.”
Rubio And The Kochs

AFP’s 2015 “Wish List” Includes “Approve The Keystone XL Pipeline, Repeal The Oil Export Ban, Fight The New EPA […]

In his new book out today, Good Profit, Charles Koch sets out to deceive readers that the Koch family’s prominence and wealth has been built on sound, ethical, and even patriotic principles. In reality, the Koch brothers and their business empire has been built on a foundation of what Koch describes as “bad profit.”

Good Profit is just another attempt by Koch to pull the wool over the American public’s eyes and hide the fact that the billionaire Koch brothers and their profit driven business and political philosophy hurts real families and working people across the country.

If you’re picking up a copy of Good Profit today, you might want to think twice. Publisher’s Weekly gave Koch’s book a brutal early review calling it a “rambling rah-rah for his company’s operating philosophy,” “a book-length advertisement for Koch Industries’ products, and for himself as a businessman,” and “self-congratulatory and slim.”

This week as the Koch PR machine […]

The Kochs’ massive failure of a youth outreach front group is still around, apparently. And Generation Opportunity’s latest effort at encouraging “creative disruption” looks suspiciously like encouraging “law breaking.”

With a recent blog post entitled, “How Food Trucks Are Using Social Media to Get Around Government Regulators,” Generation Opportunity cleverly taps into millennials’ well-documented weakness for food trucks, while subtly emphasizing the perils of “burdensome government regulations.”

Such regulations are of course also known as “laws” — and the Generation Opportunity post is all about “innovat[ing]…around” them. Or, as the practice is more popularly known: “Breaking the law.”

But then again, in characteristic Koch front-group fashion, Generation Opportunity has never had the best interests of its target audience at heart. From opposition to student loan forgiveness and Medicaid expansions, to actively discouraging young people from getting health insurance, Generation Opportunity has consistently weighed Charles and David’s priorities — and bottom […]

The Columbus Dispatch reports that half a million more Ohioans have health insurance thanks to Medicaid expansion in the Buckeye state– and it’s costing a whopping $2 billion less than anticipated.

This is exactly what happens when you don’t listen to the Kochs, who staged a full court press against expanding Medicaid. It’s clear the Kochs were only concerned about their own interests, not the half a million Ohioans who now have health insurance.

Columbus Dispatch: Ohio’s Medicaid costs $2 billion less than estimates