Super PAC backing Ron DeSantis picks up disillusioned Koch network staffers

[libertybele]

Super PAC backing Ron DeSantis picks up disillusioned Koch network staffers

A top New Hampshire political operative who worked for Americans for Prosperity's political arm and was upset with the group's endorsement of Nikki Haley is joining a super PAC supporting Ron DeSantis.

Chris Maidment is the latest staffer with AFP — a branch of the powerful Koch network — to leave and join the DeSantis effort after it decided to back Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, last week. He will be Never Back Down's New Hampshire political director.

AFP's decision to endorse Haley confounded many longtime Koch-world operatives, who view her not only as someone with little chance to win the Republican presidential nomination but also as someone who is out of step with many of their beliefs — particularly because of her interventionist foreign policy instincts.

Maidment, who had been a director of grassroots operations in New Hampshire for AFP, spoke out on X after the endorsement that he opposed the group's decision and would not be helping it elect her. .............

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-super-pac-never-back-down-americans-for-prosperity-koch-rcna128675

[jmyrlefuller]

And before Trumpland comes in and screams "see! I told you he was in bed with the Koch brothers!"

Let me remind y'all that AFP was one of the first, if not THE first, of the major conservative organizations to give backing to the Tea Party.