[net-gold] COUNTRIES: UNITED STATES, CANADA : CITIES: DETROIT, MICHIGAN, WINDSOR, OTTAWA, CANADA : TRANSPORTATION: BRIDGES : BILLIONAIRES : POLITICS: U.S.-Canada Trade: Billionaire Oil Baron Brothers Block New Border Crossing To U.S.
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- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:31:29 -0400 (EDT)
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COUNTRIES: UNITED STATES, CANADA :
CITIES: DETROIT, MICHIGAN, WINDSOR, OTTAWA, CANADA :
TRANSPORTATION: BRIDGES :
BILLIONAIRES :
POLITICS:
U.S.-Canada Trade: Billionaire Oil Baron Brothers
Block New Border Crossing To U.S.
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U.S.-Canada Trade: Billionaire Oil Baron Brothers
Block New Border Crossing To U.S.
Americans For Prosperity , Charles Koch , David Koch , Koch Brothers ,
Ambassador Bridge , David Jacobson , Manuel Moroun , U.s. Canada Border ,
U.s. Canada Trade , Windsor Detroit Border , Canada Business News
September 18, 2011
Huffington Post
Business Canada
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09/14/
koch-brothers-bridge-canada_n_962064.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3d3ggtr
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Two billionaire brothers who have become heroes to America's libertarian
movement and bogeymen to America's left are backing an effort to prevent a
new border crossing between Canada and the U.S.
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Charles and David Koch (pronounced "coke"), owners of Koch Industries, the
U.S.'s second-largest privately held company, have thrown their backing
behind a sometimes-dirty campaign to prevent the construction of a new
bridge crossing between Windsor and Detroit, Bloomberg News reports.
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That places the energy industry magnates seemingly in opposition to the
government in Ottawa, which has been lobbying hard to get Michigan to
build a new bridge in Detroit. Canada has even offered cash-strapped
Michigan $550 million to move forward with the long-stalled project.
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But the new border crossing has been delayed by the efforts of Manuel
Moroun, a Michigan billionaire who owns the principal Windsor-Detroit
crossing, the Ambassador Bridge. Moroun fears a new, six-lane bridge would
take traffic away from his 82-year-old, four-lane crossing. He has been
lobbying the state government in Lansing to stop the project.
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Now, as Bloomberg reports, the Koch brothers have gotten involved in
Moroun's efforts, presumably because of their opposition to
publicly-funded infrastructure projects. Americans for Prosperity, a
political pressure group founded by the Kochs, has been running a
publicity campaign to stop the bridge. According to news reports, the
campaign included sending out phony "eviction notices" to Detroit homes.
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The Detroit Free Press reports residents of Detroit's Delray neighbourhood
found fake eviction notices on their doors this past June. The notices
told residents they would have their homes appropriated by the state in
order to build the bridge.
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That angered many residents who were panicked by the letters, initially
believing they were being wrongly evicted.
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Efforts to stop the bridge also appear to run counter to the U.S. federal
government's priorities. David Jacobson, the U.S. ambassador to Canada,
said Tuesday that trade with Canada is the most important international
business issue in Washington.
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In recent years, progressive activists in the U.S. have identified the
Koch brothers as being among the most influential movers and shakers in
the country's libertarian-conservative movement. They have been linked to
efforts to restrict access to abortion; have reportedly told employees
that climate change is a hoax; have funded efforts to reduce the influence
of unions; and have even been suspected of plotting strategy with U.S.
Supreme Court justices.
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Charles Koch, generally considered the more prominent of the two siblings,
has a fortune estimated at $22 billion. With some $100 billion in annual
revenue, Koch Industries is one of the largest private companies in the
U.S., and would rank in the top 20 on the Forbes 500 list if it were
publicly traded. The company employs some 70,000 people worldwide.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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http://tinyurl.com/3jv7flb
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Wisconsin Budget Battle Continues, GOP Legislators Forge Ahead
http://tinyurl.com/4h5jnfh
The first salvo was launched last week by a third-party group, the
Koch-backed conservative organization Americans for Prosperity. Entitled
"Stand with Scott Walker," the commercial commends the governor for
purportedly taking the necessary steps to address the state's budget
shortfalls, actions that would force public employees to pay a larger
share of their pensions and health care benefits, as well as limit
collective bargaining rights of the state's unions. It also directs blame
at President Obama for supposedly helping to organize the massive
protests, which the ad argues don't represent the will of Wisconsin
voters.
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