when you think of Koch Industries you
probably think of all the products or
the millions of corporate dollars spent
for GOP candidates but now the company
is hoping to change your mind we believe
it's time time to remove the barriers to
end the divide to replace
winner-take-all with a system where we
all can win that video is part of a
campaign called in the divide it was
launched by the company on Friday and
cost for Americans to put aside partisan
politics the campaign also vowels the
company will be putting more money and
effort into enacting public policy and
social change Charles Koch told USA
Today let's stop attacking people we
disagree with and trying to silence them
let's instead try to find common ground
and learn from each other so we can
innovate the campaign hits on issues
like how the criminal justice system is
rigged and disproportionately impacts
the poor and how government regulation
hinders business growth though the
campaign may seem to be a strange fit
for the conservative billionaires the
shift has been coming for a little while
Koch officials recently got rid of an
opera research unit created to gather
information about liberal groups and
Democratic candidates and the Koch
brothers have been arguing for criminal
justice reform for years secretly
pumping millions into campaigns to fix
the system and teaming up with members
of the right and the left who think it's
broken though critics are sure to say
this is all a business strategy the
company has already made changes to its
own policies to reflect the campaign for
instance stopped asking potential
employees about their criminal history
on applications for new Z I'm Eugene
Daniels