Inside the Koch Brothers’ Multi-Million Dollar Campaign to Win Over Latinos

*LIBRE Initiative leaders say the organization is non-partisan. They don’t tell people who to vote for, but they do tell them who to not vote for. And they’ve got the Koch Brothers’ millions to back them. VL

By Alice Ollstein, Think Progress

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA—On a sweltering summer afternoon in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, a small group of local Latino business owners and their families gathered in an upscale venue called Venue. Sitting at half-empty tables amidst faux western decor and flanked by banners reading “LIMITED GOVERNMENT, UNLIMITED OPPORTUNITIES,” they heard from a group of panelists and experts on the challenges of starting a family business.

Nowhere in the packets handed out to the attendees or in the presentations was it disclosed that the host organization, LIBRE, is a pet project of the Koch Brothers—the billionaire fossil fuel magnates currently bankrolling Republican candidates and conservative initiatives around the country. But hints were there: speakers heaping praise on Walmart as a successful “family business,” a video backed by dramatic music saying those who take welfare have “condemned their children to life of mediocrity and subsistence,” a flyer listing the ways the Obama Administration has made life worse for Latinos over the past five years.

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[Photo courtesy of LIBRE Initiatice Feacebook]

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