All that Koch money not going to Donald Trump is being spent on Senate races, including against Catherine Cortez Masto, the Democrat who hopes to replace outgoing Sen. Harry Reid in Nevada. The Kochs are spending more than $1 million running an ad against her alleging that she used fancy-pants lawyers to sue Bank of America for foreclosure fraud, and then took campaign contributions from those lawyers. The Kochs say this was a "cozy relationship."
The Las Vegas Review-Journal says this was Masto doing her job. Because that outside firm she hired "successfully forced one of the largest banks in the country to pay the state millions to compensate for alleged wrongdoing." That settlement was $38 million.
Embarrassingly enough for the Kochs, the Republican they're boosting in the race is on the record touting the settlement.
Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., said he is "happy to see that an agreement was reached. At a time when Nevada families are struggling the most to make ends meet, I have high hopes that this settlement will provide them much needed relief."
That's, of course, once the settlement was reached. While the whole mess was going on Heck was pretty uninvolved, saying the crisis was just "a blip on the radar." A blip that forced thousands of Nevadans out of their homes and almost took down the global economy. Good priorities Heck has there.
It's another instance in which a Koch ad has backfired, launching an attack on a Democrat that results in more scrutiny on the Republican they're trying to prop up. Don't expect being caught in big lies to stop the Kochs, however. It never has before.
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