Saturday, March 5, 2016

“The Kochs’ crisscrossing interests are evident in the multiple roles of Mark Holden who sits on the boards of both Americans for Prosperity, whose foundation is overseeing the Bridge to Wellbeing programs for the poor, and the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, a business league formed by the Kochs’ anonymous-donor network to distribute hundreds of millions of dollars in the hope of defeating liberals. Holden heads both the Kochs’ campaign to reduce sentences for nonviolent drug offenders and the legal defense of the company’s inner-city pet-coke piles.”

JANE MAYER, “New Koch” in the New Yorker, January 25, 2016, page 47.