Conservatives go all out against FERC nominee

This anti-Binz alliance includes the 60 Plus Association, American Commitment, the American Energy Alliance, the American Tradition Institute, Americans for Prosperity, the Caesar Rodney Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Family Business Defense Council, Freedom Action, Frontiers of Freedom, the Independence Institute, the National Center for Public Policy Research, the National Taxpayers Union and the Positive Growth Alliance.

Three of those signers received money last year from the Koch brothers’ cash-dispensing group Freedom Partners, according to the group’s 2012 tax return: Americans for Prosperity; the 60 Plus Association, a free-market seniors group that also opposes Obamacare; and the American Energy Alliance.