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Statement from Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC in Response to Obama Campaign Remarks

WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- We will exercise our First Amendment rights and not be intimidated or silenced by the President's aides and his allies who criticize private citizens that disagree with the President's policies.

The Obama campaign's decision to embrace Super PACs is similar to the President's hypocrisy in 2008 when he broke his promise to use public campaign financing, and became the first major party presidential candidate in history to turn down public financing in a general election. It is worth noting that President Obama outraised and outspent his opponent by hundreds of millions of dollars in the 2008 Presidential campaign, relying in large part on the same corporate executive funding sources whose productivity, business practices, and profitability he pretends to denounce.

Apparently, the President and his allies do not want to lose that perceived fundraising advantage during the 2012 Presidential campaign, and are trying to intimidate into silence those who may disagree with them and who may decide to support other candidates.

-- Philip Ellender, president and COO
Government and Public Affairs
Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC

SOURCE Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC