I do not know who they are, but they’re well funded. An astroturf group calling themselves the “Judicial Crisis Network” at judicialnetwork.com is spending $10 Million to promote DT’s new Supreme Court nominee. There is a slick ad out on the internet tonight promoting Gorsuch, who was just officially nominated tonight. Maybe these people have enough money to throw around that they had multiple slick ads created and ready to go for every nominee on Bannon’s short list. Maybe they had advance notice. Who knows? But I wanted to get out a quick diary showing how fast and well funded our opposition really is. I have never seen an astroturf group get something out this fast before. Is this another Koch front group? I hope other people on DK can follow the money to find out who are funding these marketers.
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Yes, this astroturf group was investigated by both Think Progress and the Daily Beast, with the former tracing the two ad companies which are the biggest part of this “organization” and the latter tracing the funding to Wellspring Committee, which gets most of its money from the Koch brothers.
www.thedailybeast.com/...