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DES MOINES — Before the 2016 election, political advocacy groups funded by billionaire brothers from Kansas donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican candidates for the Iowa Legislature and reached hundreds of thousands of Iowa homes with campaign mailers, phone calls and door-knocking.
During the recently concluded 2017 legislative session, those groups provided templates for and advocated for multiple conservative bills that became Iowa law.
Throughout this year’s legislative session, Iowa Democrats accused their Republican counterparts of passing several state laws that were the will of out-of-state groups funded by Charles and David Koch, billionaire industrialists and big-money conservative donors from Kansas.
Read the full article at The Gazette.
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