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Dear Sir or Madam: AFP was co-founded by David Koch; he chairs its board and works closely with his right-hand man there, Tim Phillips. The idea that Koch is a distant board member at AFP completely misunderstands his role there. It's his organization, his money that has laid the foundation for its work, and his vision that animates its agenda, even if he has obtained financial commitments from his friends to help bring his dream of AFP's role to fruition. And, AFP boasted that it was going to spend at least $10 million in the state, in addition to what it had previously spent buttressing Walker in 2009. As for the RGA, statements that accompanied his million dollar check this spring indicated that it was to help Walker, the only governor in the country running for election this spring. Regarding the million to RGA in 2010, it helped subsidize RGA's ads in Wisconsin and probably other states. All told, $12 million is a fair estimate based on the publicly available information. And that does not even count all the groups Charles and David fund that helped provide support to Walker in various ways. What's absurd is trying to split hairs to claim that AFP's $10 million in Wisconsin is not attributable to Koch and the operation he has nurtured and built.

True, money is fungible so it's not clear whether Koch's exact $$ went to supporting Walker, however, the fact that their organization spent so much ads, and they gave so much $ to the RGA who spent so much on ads at least warrants a "half-true" rating from politifact. P.S. chairperson*