“‘It just lifts the covers off the Wizard of Oz so we know the Koch family is pulling the strings in the Kansas Chamber,’ [Rep. Tom] Moxley said” in an article in the Topeka Capital Journal. “According to Schwab’s email, his troubles with the state’s ‘Renewable Portfolio Standards’ started last year when a Koch Industries lobbyist approached him after a hearing on repealing the standards. During the hearing Schwab had commented on the fact that only think tanks and no Kansas businesses testified in favor of repeal.” We see the same issue with ALEC education policies, like the corporate tax credit scholarship which was strangely included and passed in HB2506 though it had not passed out of committee. Read more here: http://cjonline.com/news/2014-06-16/rep-koch-using-kansas-chamber-retaliate-renewable-energy.

See also http://www.kansas.com/2014/06/16/3510787/e-mail-criticizes-koch-industries.html and

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/jun/16/rep-schwab-says-dispute-koch-lobbyists-led-non-end/