A newly surfaced recording shows a senior adviser to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell conspiring with the Koch brothers’ network and other conservative groups to torpedo sweeping voting rights legislation.
The Jan. 8 recording obtained by The New Yorker reveals leading conservative activists are alarmed by public support for House Resolution 1 and Senate Bill 1, commonly known as the For The People Act, and they privately admitted they had no effective way to counter the argument that billionaires should be able to buy elections.
“When presented with a very neutral description” of the bill, “people were generally supportive,” Kyle McKenzie, the research director for the Koch-run advocacy group Stand Together. “The most worrisome part . . . is that conservatives were actually as supportive as the general public was when they read the neutral description.”