TN: Koch Brothers Group Begins Ad Blitz Against Nashville Transit Referendum Week from Election

    April 24, 2018
    With one week before Nashville's historic transit referendum election, a group funded by the conservative Koch network has launched its first set of ads urging defeat of the controversial proposal.

    Source Tennessean

    With one week before Nashville's historic transit referendum election, a group funded by the conservative Koch network has launched its first set of ads urging defeat of the controversial proposal.

    A mailer that hit mailboxes over the weekend encourages Nashvillians to vote against the transit plan, arguing it would make the city's sales tax the highest in the nation and won't fix traffic.

    The ads were paid for by Americans for Prosperity, which is part of the political network funded by billionaire brothers David H. Koch and Charles Koch of Koch Industries, based in Wichita, Kansas. 

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