Source: The Guardian

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
Thursday November 3 2011 03.08 GMT

The conservative oil billionaires Charles and David Koch are spending millions on television ads meant to turn the failure of the Solyndra solar energy company into an election liability for Barack Obama.

The group Americans for Prosperity, which is funded by the Koches, said on Wednesday it was spending $2.4m on television ads accusing Obama of putting billions of taxpayer dollars at risk to help political donors.

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The same group helped organise the Tea Party protests against Obama in 2009. It has said the ads will run for two weeks on stations in Florida, Michigan, Virginia, and New Mexico. All are battleground states in the 2012 presidential election.

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In the last few years the brothers have spent more than $50m to advance their political agenda, supporting foundations such as Americans for Prosperity, which opposes pollution controls and has worked to discredit the science on climate change.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/0...

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Great to see more exposure of the Koch's involvement in AFP, the "Tea Party" etc.