Koch Brothers have already spent $1.2 million dollars in New Hampshire against Kelly Ayotte's challengers. She voted in the Senate "to protect huge tax breaks for the oil industry—costing taxpayers $40 billion." Wow, she sure did pay them back!!

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Koch brothers to again star as bogeymen in 2016 Democratic ads
By James Hohmann and Elise Viebeck, August 12, 2015

THE BIG IDEA: Senate Majority PAC, the main outside group focused on trying to regain control of the upper chamber for Democrats, will begin running its first television ad of the 2016 cycle today. And it might look familiar: a narrator says GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte puts the Koch brothers ahead of New Hampshire families.

The spot, which a source tracking the air war says is backed up by $250,000, comes in response to a much larger buy that Americans for Prosperity, part of the Koch political network, placed against Ayotte’s likely challenger last week. “Fifteen months before the election, yet the out-of-state oil billionaire Koch Brothers have already spent $1.2 million dollars here in New Hampshire to keep Kelly Ayotte in the U.S. Senate,” a narrator says. “And, back in Washington, Ayotte voted to protect huge tax breaks for the oil industry—costing taxpayers $40 billion.”

Democrats spent tens of millions of dollars last year on nearly 100 different commercials that similarly linked Republican candidates with Charles and David Koch. Majority Leader Harry Reid, who regularly railed against the brothers on the Senate floor, liked to say that the GOP was “addicted to Koch.” When Reid became the minority leader, some questioned the wisdom of this line of attack.

But leading Democratic strategists insist that correlation is not causation: just because they ran lots of ads tying Republicans to special interests and then lost does not mean it’s an ineffective attack. In fact, they believe that tying Scott Brown to the Koch’s was integral to his narrow loss against Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen in the Granite State. They point to several different surveys that show the charge is potent, especially when it comes to galvanizing the Democratic base.

With the Koch network aiming to spend $889 million in advance of the next election, Democrats promise they will only amplify their criticism of the brothers. Another outside group, American Bridge 21st Century, announced plans earlier this summer to spend heavily on efforts linking the presidential candidates with the Koch’s. We’ll monitor polling to see whether the new ad moves numbers.

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