“You can do things here incredibly, incredibly cheaply. For instance, A.F.P., the Koch brothers, went and did North Carolina last time. Well, a legislative seat here is about one-fourth the size of a legislative seat in North Carolina. So there’s bang for your buck.” In any given district, he said, “You can go in for twenty grand, and probably fix a problem.” He also noted, “People are just showing up with pockets full of money, saying, ‘We want to help you out.’ ”

–A West Virginia Republican political consultant talking about AFP establishing a chapter in West Virginia, quoted in Evan Osnos, Chemical Valley: The Coal Industry, The Politicians, and the Big Oil Spill (The New Yorker)