6/27/2023 0 Comments Dark money mayer![]() They have a bigger budget and payroll than the Republican National Committee, yet they’re private citizens.” “They’ve built up something that hasn’t really existed before in the country’s politics, which is a huge, multi-state, private political machine,” says Mayer about the Kochs. In her book, Mayer traces the history of the family and its political strategies, and examines the rise of untraceable “dark” money in the political system. The two brothers, the scions of Koch Industries, have spent decades funding conservative candidates and causes. ![]() ![]() Mayer, a staff writer for The New Yorker, worked for more than three years on the book, an expansion of an article she wrote on Charles and David Koch for The New Yorker in 2010. Host Marcia Franklin talks with investigative journalist Jane Mayer, the author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. ![]()
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