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Line 72: ====Governor Scott Walker contributions==== According to ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'', Koch Industries' [[Political Action Committee]] (PAC) contributed the second largest donation to [[Scott Walker (politician)|Scott Walker]]'s [[Wisconsin gubernatorial election, 2010|2010 campaign]] for governor of Wisconsin. It donated $43,000, second in size only to PAC donations of $43,125 from both the Wisconsin realtors and the Wisconsin home builders.<ref name=MJ>{{cite magazine|url=http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/wisconsin-scott-walker-koch-brothers|title=Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: Funded by the Koch Bros|magazine=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]|date=2011-02-18|access-date=2011-04-15}}</ref><ref name="gab.wi.gov">{{cite web|title=Campaign Finance Limits and Deadlines|url=http://gab.wi.gov/campaign-finance/limits-deadlines|publisher=Wisconsin Government Accountability Board|access-date=November 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014173636/http://www.gab.wi.gov/campaign-finance/limits-deadlines|archive-date=October 14, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> That contribution amounted to less than 0.5% of Walker's campaign total<ref name=Continetti>{{cite news |first=Matthew |last=Continetti |author-link=Matthew Continetti |title=The Paranoid Style in Liberal Politics|work=[[The Weekly Standard]]|date=April 4, 2011|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/paranoid-style-liberal-politics_555525.html?nopager=1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110329092753/http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/paranoid-style-liberal-politics_555525.html?nopager=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 29, 2011}}</ref> because of the limits placed on campaign contributions.<ref name="gab.wi.gov"/> Most support for Walker was in the form of expenditures estimated at $3 million from Americans for Prosperity (AFP).<ref>{{cite web|title=The Koch brothers alone gave twice as much money to Scott Walker as the total amount of money raised by Tom Barrett|url=http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2012/jun/20/debbie-wasserman-schultz/billionaire-koch-brothers-gave-8-million-wisconsin/|publisher=PolitiFact|access-date=November 5, 2013}}</ref> Due to Koch's contribution to Walker's campaign, David Koch became a symbolic target for the protests.<ref name=Continetti/> According to the ''Palm Beach Post'', David Koch was active in Wisconsin politics. Americans for Prosperity reportedly spent $700,000 on ads supporting Governor Scott Walker's changes to collective bargaining.<ref>[http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/david-koch-intends-to-cure-cancer-in-his-2185046.html?page=2 "David Koch intends to cure cancer in his lifetime and remake American politics"], ''The Palm Beach Post'', February 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Carey|first=Nick|title=Money flows into Wisconsin governor recall fight|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-campaign-wisconsin-idUSTRE81F12L20120216|work=Reuters|access-date=November 5, 2013|date=February 16, 2012}}</ref> Line 240: Koch brothers-funded groups including Americans for Prosperity, [[Pacific Research Institute]], [[Center to Protect Patient Rights]], and [[Generation Opportunity]] opposed the 2010 [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]] (PPACA) commonly called Obamacare, favoring a free-market approach.<ref name=Franke-Ruta /><ref name=Ungar>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/12/27/koch-brothers-financed-research-institute-steps-up-obamacare-attacks/ | title=Koch Brothers Financed 'Research' Institute Steps Up Misleading Obamacare Attacks | magazine=[[Forbes]] | date=December 27, 2011 | access-date=September 21, 2013 | author=Ungar, Rick}}</ref> Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity and Generation Opportunity<ref name=Confessore-130430>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/us/politics/koch-brothers-plan-more-political-involvement-for-their-conservative-network.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 | title=Koch Brothers Plan More Political Involvement for Their Conservative Network | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=April 30, 2013 | access-date=September 21, 2013 | author=Confessore, Nicholas}}</ref> ran more than $3 million worth of advertisements opposing the Affordable Care Act, including a series of ads in which [[Uncle Sam]] was depicted as a "creepy" doctor. The ads are directed at women and young adults and are designed to "undermine confidence"<ref name=Condon>{{cite news | url= ===Criminal justice reform=== Line 263: === Gay rights === David Koch voiced support for gay marriage; in 2015 signed an [[amicus curiae]] in the ''[[DeBoer v. Snyder]]'' case which supported [[Same-sex marriage|same-sex couples constitutional right to marry]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lerner |first=Adam |date=3 April 2015 |title=David Koch to sign amicus brief supporting gay marriage |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/david-koch-gay-marriage-amicus-brief-115752?_amp=true |access-date= |website=[[Politico]]}}</ref> Some gay rights advocates have complained that despite the brothers' vocal ideological libertarian stand against "government ‘intrusions,’ including ... laws that criminalized homosexuality", their devotion to conservative causes sometimes led them to support anti-gay rights politicians, (such as former Vice President Mike Pence, whose two campaigns for governor of Indiana the network "contributed heavily to"), and organizations (such as the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]], which "at least in its early years, strongly opposed LGBTQ equality").<ref name="RING-2019">{{cite news |last1=RING |first1=TRUDY |title=David Koch, Whose Money Harmed LGBTQ People, Dead at 79 |url=https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/8/23/david-koch-whose-money-harmed-lgbtq-people-dead-79 |access-date=17 December 2022 |agency=Advocate |date=23 August 2019}}</ref> === Abortion === | |||