Kochs partner with ‘Primetime’ Sanders to fight poverty
COLORADO SPRING, Colo. — Retired football star Deion Sanders is partnering with the conservative Koch brothers to help fight poverty in Texas.
The unlikely partnership, announced on Saturday, will raise $21 million over the next three years to fund anti-poverty programs in Dallas. Sanders joined Koch donors at a weekend conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to help raise money for the new venture, called Prime 5.
He also defended the billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, often demonized by Democrats, as someone simply “trying to make the world a better place.”
“I’m happy where I am and who I’m with because we share a lot of the same values and goals,” Sanders said when asked if he’d be willing to partner with organizations on the left.