A devoted husband. Were being totally ourselves. as well as other partner offers and accept our, Bo Rader/Wichita Eagle/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories, Billionaire industrialist and conservative mega-donor David Koch has died at age 79. Either way, Charles Koch financially contributed to an institution that employed Nazi sympathizers and routinely published their work. growing. Their father. The rustic log-cabin campus nestled in the Rocky Mountains was like a far-right libertarian sleep-away camp a corrective, perhaps, to the Boy Scouts, which LeFevre worried was succumbing to communist influence. Evidently, confusion with the more famous Kochs has been something of a constant problem for the Minnesota company, to the point where on most of its websites, it's had to publish a disclaimer that reads: To our valued customers and visitors: In response to numerous inquiries, we wish to advise that we are not in any way associated, related, affiliated nor a part of the much larger "Koch Industries, Inc." located in Wichita, Kansas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_industries). The Koch Brothers Want To Scare The Obamacare Out Of You Dem Leader Admits Koch Brothers Make 'Me Toss and Turn at Night' "I think the Koch brothers are really expecting laws to go in their favor," Karen says in the new 30-second ad, first obtained by ABC News. [Would you like to follow me on Twitter? Their influence has only increased and become more scrutinized since the Citizens United Supreme Court decision in 2010, which allowed corporations to make an unlimited number of donations to candidates. His If you want to do the same, please share this and other Timeline stories and join us on Facebook and Twitter. brought out a light (lowcalorie) beer in 2002. "I started making . KAREN: Its not worth my time. Were either of you hesitant, or were you immediately on board? As the 2014 midterms approach, the billionaire industrialists and politically conservative uber-donors known as the Koch Brothers continue to loom large in our political discourse. September 1, 2003, pp. BusinessWeek, Plus, most 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. It didn't work. In 1998, New York Times Magazine described Julia Koch as a young woman of manners and social ambition from Conway, Ark., much admired in her Upper East Side circle for marrying one of the richest men in America. At the time she was 34. The father was gone doing business, and the mother was a very active socialite and was gone much of the time, and so she and the father placed the child rearing in the hands of a hired nanny. Instead he said, Koch Industries: Company Facts - Greenpeace USA Koch brothers: secretive billionaires to launch vast database with 2012 Consulting Group.
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