As their fortunes grew, Charles and David Koch became the primary underwriters of hard-line libertarian politics in America.
After the 1980 election, Charles and David Koch receded from the public arena.
Men like Charles and David Koch were among the first on the right to grasp the implications of this.
Actually, it is trying to delegitimize the funding by free market heroes such as Charles and David Koch while sanitizing its own.
The company has garnered a lot of attention in the past few years due to the political activities of Charles and David Koch.
You may have heard the news last Thursday that Charles and David Koch had filed a lawsuit seeking to take control of the Cato Institute.
Oil billionaires Charles and David Koch, the richest brothers in America, spent millions making sure the Republicans took back the House at the midterm elections.
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Charles and David Koch are attacked by left-wingers for their free-market politics, which strike some who dwell in more liberal circles as being extreme and even vaguely anti-American.
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Liberals are working on a shopping app that will allow them to spot and shun products made by the sprawling conglomerate owned by conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch.
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Tuesday's ruling in Washington was also cheered by two of the biggest-spending outside groups in the 2012 presidential and congressional campaigns: Americans for Prosperity, founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, and Crossroads GPS, run by former President George W. Bush's aide Karl Rove.
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The Brave New Foundation, founded and led by documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald, is calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to halt a Canada-to-Texas pipeline being built by TransCanada that will benefit the business interests of billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, claiming it is railroading homeowners and posing a threat to the vast freshwater aquifer supplying midwestern states.
"I buy very little at auctions today because I'm tired of buying fake wine, " said Koch, the brother of industrialists and conservative political supporters David and Charles Koch.
Koch, a Palm Beach resident and the brother of industrialists and conservative political supporters David and Charles Koch, conceded on the witness stand that the wine he bought from Greenberg was not his first encounter with fakes.
Mr Koch, an energy magnate and brother of major US industrialists David and Charles Koch, also said he would use the settlement to help eliminate fraud in the wine auction market and would create a website to help spot fake wines and their dealers.
Howard III backed William and Frederick Koch in a fight against their brothers Charles and David for control of Koch Industries.
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Forbes ranks it as the second-largest private company in the country, after Cargill, and its consistent profitability has made David and Charles Koch who, years ago, bought out two other brothers among the richest men in America.
Throughout the seventies, Charles and David continued to build Koch Industries.
Apparently, David and Charles Koch refused a request from Waxman and Rush to supply these documents.
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Indeed, it boggles the mind when one considers that Rick Santorum, along with other professed Catholics such as David and Charles Koch who operate many coal burning plants, would take so strong a position against this particular government regulation when their church so clearly disagrees not to mention the requirements of basic, human morality.
Sons Charles, David, Frederick and William inherited Koch Industries after father's death.
But, the controversial billionaire Koch brothers (Charles and David) are no newcomers to this (tea)party.
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