2016 candidates convene to audition before some of the GOP’s top donors. Dana Point, Calif. — Imagine paradise, and the image you conjure in your head is probably something like the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort here in Southern California, minus the dozen or so protestors milling languidly at the entrance.  It’s not often, probably, that the resort itself is rented to a private group, but this weekend the Koch brothers, Charles and David, and their principle membership organization, the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, have overtaken the grounds. Here, overlooking the Pacific Ocean, they’ve gathered 450 of the Republican party’s top donors — a $100,000 contribution to the broader Koch network is required to score an invite — as well as over a dozen GOP lawmakers and five of the party’s presidential nominees.

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