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3 Shady Things the Koch Brothers Have Been Up To That the Media Ignore
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3 Shady Things the Koch Brothers Have Been Up To That the Media Ignore
AlterNet
By Adele M. Stan
To the corporate media, the machinations of the 1 percent's most infamous
poster boys might look like old news. But for regular Americans, it's a
fight for their lives.
March 27, 2012
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/154714/
3_shady_things_the_koch_brothers_have_been_up_to_that_the_media_ignore/
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With his new film, Koch Brothers Exposed (trailer at the end of this
article), Robert Greenwald and his colleagues at Brave New Foundation hope
to keep the deeds of the billionaire brothers front and center as the
nation plunges into a national election season like no other.
[ http://tinyurl.com/7c2egqt ]
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Three Reasons to Pay Attention
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The broad and detrimental reach of the Koch brothers' influence on
American life offers an array of areas that demand scrutiny, but there are
three that set the stage for all the others: the corrupting influence of
Koch money on elections, legislation and the scholarly research that
shapes legislation.
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1) Buying elections: According to news reports, the Koch brothers plan to
spend, as The Hill describes it, "upwards of $200 million on various
conservative activist groups in an attempt to oust Obama from the White
House."
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Recently, a war of words erupted between Obama campaign manager Jim
Messina and Koch Industries spokesperson Phillip Ellender after Messina
sent out a fundraising letter in February accusing the Kochs of
bankrolling the Tea Party movement and pushing up prices at the gas pump,
via their Koch Industries oil business. After Ellender took offense,
Messina responded with a letter (PDF) that called on Americans for
Prosperity to release its donor list, which, as a non-profit in the
501(c)(3) category of the U.S. tax code, it is not required to do. As The
Hill reported:
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AFP has already spent millions on commercials in key swing states
challenging the administration's support for failed green energy firm
Solyndra. The group spent $6 million in battleground states in January, on
top of an additional $2.4 million campaign last November.
In Wisconsin, meanwhile, Americans for Prosperity is the major player
behind efforts to stave off the recall of the Kochs' man in Madison, Gov.
Scott Walker. From the Wall Street Journal:
Through January, Americans for Prosperity, has spent $1.5 million on ads
opposing the recall, and recently launched a new, $700,000 TV campaign
[targeting public-sector unions.] Its director, Tim Philips, said AFP
isn't an outside interest group. AFP set up offices in Wisconsin in 2005
and has been running a grassroots campaign of its own to stop the recalls,
he said.
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Americans for Prosperity is but one of many right-wing groups supported by
the Kochs.
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The Republican Governors Association threw $5.5 million into the campaign
to elect Scott Walker in 2010 -- the same year that David Koch donated $1
million to RGA.
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2) Corrupting the legislative process: The American Legislative Exchange
Council is a corporate-funded body that crafts model legislation, such as
Wisconsin's anti-worker law, designed to be customized by legislators in
state houses across the country. The Koch brothers are enthusiastic
backers of ALEC, which is not only behind the raft of anti-labor bills
roiling legislatures, but also the widespread legislative attempts to
disenfranchise voters, as well as anti-immigrant legislation. ALEC was
also behind the Florida law, called Stand Your Ground, that is being used
as the justification for not arresting George Zimmerman, the killer of
Trayvon Martin.
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3) Corrupting scholarly research: As noted in Koch Brothers Exposed,
Charles and David Koch are generous funders of think-tanks, and donors of
endowed chairs at colleges and universities nationwide. They even have
their very own academic entity, the Mercatus Institute, at Virginia's
George Mason University, a public institution. The brothers would have you
believe that it's all about their love of learning, but in truth, these
entities exist expressly to churn out reams of pages that deny the science
of climate change, and that advance economic arguments for the
implementation of the Koch agenda, whether it be the roll-back of
environmental regulation, or the scaling back of Social Security.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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