Tag Archives: Koch Brothers

How Obama Can Hurt The Kochs With One Stroke Of His Pen

Posted on July 16, 2015 by markt

By Katrina vanden Heuvel The Washington Post (7/14/15) During the 2012 election cycle, total spending by super PACs and other outside groups exceeded $1 billion , a staggering number that would have been unimaginable four years earlier. In 2016, the Koch brothers’ … Continue reading →

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Koch-Backed Group Calls For No More National Parks

Posted on July 7, 2015 by markt

By Claire Moser ThinkProgress (7/4/15) Just in time for the Fourth of July — when millions of people across the country will visit America’s national parks and other public lands — the Koch brothers are rolling out their latest campaign … Continue reading →

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Georgia Reporter Does A Great Job Of Showing How ALEC And State Legislators Meet Behind Closed Doors To Make Laws

Posted on May 26, 2015 by markt

“Don’t say nothing.” By Mark L. Taylor The Daily Call (5/26/15) This video report was done by Atlanta, Georgia television station 11; what the reporter called the “fabled back rooms where laws are really made”. But what they expose in … Continue reading →

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How The Koch Brothers Aim To Create A Fascist Dystopia

Posted on May 13, 2015 by dennis

The Kochs are prepared to spend hundreds of millions to ensure their chosen champions in the Republican Party get elected and begin dismantling America as we know it. By Colin Taylor Occupy Democrats (5/8/15) The nefarious Koch Brothers, Charles and … Continue reading →

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Koch Brother’s Plan To Take Over The World Nearly Complete

Posted on April 24, 2015 by dennis

“Please do not disclose, discuss, or disseminate the contents herewith.”   By Kenneth P. Vogel Politico (4/22/15) The Koch brothers’ political machine is expanding into new states and recruiting new donors as it seeks to shape the Republican Party — … Continue reading →

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Koch Brothers Defeated In Montana: 6 Lessons We Can Learn

Posted on April 22, 2015 by dennis

By Eric Stern Salon (4/21/15) The passage of Medicaid expansion in Montana this weekend was an unlikely defeat for the Koch brothers, who came in as heavy favorites and spent a fortune trying to kill the measure. Sadly for the … Continue reading →

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Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!: Billionaire Koch Brothers Signal Support For Scott Walker

Posted on April 21, 2015 by dennis

By Nicholas Confessore The New York Times (4/20/15) Charles G. and David H. Koch, the influential and big-spending conservative donors, have a favorite in the race for the Republican nomination: Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. On Monday, at a fund-raising event … Continue reading →

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Republican Legislator To Kochs’ AFP Henchmen: ‘You people serve absolutely no purpose’

Posted on April 5, 2015 by markt

By Joan McCarter Daily Kos (4/2/15) Republican frustration over the Koch brothers’ rule is expanding beyond Montana, all the way across the country to Florida, where a Republican legislator has had just about enough of being targeted as not conservative enough … Continue reading →

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Greedy Bastards: The Kochs Brothers Take Millions In Taxpayer Subsidies In Montana, Then Try To Block Medicaid Expansion

Posted on March 27, 2015 by markt

Even (a few) GOP legislators are pissed at AFP’s campaign to deprive the poor and uninsured of healthcare. By Eric Stern Salon (3/25/15) In every red state where they’ve spent big, the Koch brothers have defeated Medicaid expansion, the piece … Continue reading →

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The Weasel Chronicles: Scott Walker Cultivates 2016 Image As Humble, Fresh-Faced Alternative To Jeb Bush

Posted on March 23, 2015 by markt

(Daily Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2015. Open source and free to use with link to www.thedailycall.org ) Heavy on talk of buying discounted clothes at Kohl’s department store, flipping hamburgers at McDonald’s as a youth and loving barbecue. … Continue reading →

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With Walker’s Koch-Funded Rise The Libertarian Takeover Of The GOP Is Almost Complete

Posted on March 8, 2015 by markt

There is no social program that would be safe if one of the Koch’s puppets wins the White House. By Scott Galindez Reader Supported News (3/6/15)   Let me start out by saying, pay close attention to all those who … Continue reading →

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Koch Brothers’ Budget Of $889 Million For 2016 Election Is On Par With Both Parties’ Spending

Posted on January 28, 2015 by markt

By Nicholas Confessore The New York Times (1/26/15)   The political network overseen by the conservative billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch plans to spend close to $900 million on the 2016 campaign, an unparalleled effort by coordinated outside groups to … Continue reading →

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Charles Koch’s Views On Abusive Criminal Justice System Just May Surprise You

Posted on December 30, 2014 by markt

By Roy Wenzl The Wichita Eagle (12/27/14) Of all the contentious history between Koch Industries and the U.S. government, the Corpus Christi, Texas, case from 1995 is the one that Charles Koch remembers most vividly. A federal grand jury indicted … Continue reading →

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The New Koch Machine: “Exceeds The RNC’s Data Operation In Many Important Respects”

Posted on December 14, 2014 by dennis

“Other groups have been a flash in the pan. The bureaucracy will try to out-wait them. We’re not going anywhere. We’re able to plan for the long term.”   By Mike Allen and Kenneth P. Vogel Politico (12/8/14) The Koch … Continue reading →

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YOU HAVE GOTTA’ WATCH THIS! Jon Stewart Realized That Koch Industries Was Running Ads During His Show. So He Trolled Them.

Posted on November 1, 2014 by markt

By James Fuller The Washington Post (10/30/14) Jon Stewart realized that Koch Industries (of David and Charles Koch fame/infamy) had been running ads during the Daily Show, and, unsurprisingly, decided to address it. The ad isn’t political,  it highlights the company’s work and … Continue reading →

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