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Billionaire Koch Brothers, Guests
Pledge $100M for Election in Indian Wells
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Billionaire Koch Brothers, Guests
Pledge $100M for Election in Indian Wells
12:25 AM, Feb. 4, 2012
Kate McGinty
The Desert Sun
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20120204/NEWS0301/202040318/
Billionaire-Koch-brothers-guests-pledge-100M-election-Indian-Wells
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INDIAN WELLS Billionaires Charles and David Koch and their guests pledged
$100 million to defeat President Barack Obama when they met this week in
Indian Wells, the Huffington Post reported Friday.
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The conservative brothers slipped in and out of the Coachella Valley last
weekend to host a three-day conference with hundreds of deep-pocketed
donors.
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Charles Koch pledged $40 million and David Koch pledged $20 million,
according to the Huffington Post.
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The AOL-owned news blog cited an anonymous source who claimed to be in the
room when the pledges were made by the Kochs and their 250 to 300 guests.
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Las Vegas casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and House Majority Leader Eric
Cantor were among those at the twice-yearly meeting, the Center for Public
Integrity reported.
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Liberal groups have spotlighted the activities of the brothers because of
their funding of the opposition to measures aimed at counteracting global
warming, especially by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Kochs have also aligned with tea party Republicans ....
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Koch Brothers, Others Pledge $100 Million to Beat Obama
By: Claudio E. Cabrera |
Posted: February 4, 2012
The Root
http://www.theroot.com/koch-brothers-100-
million-pledge-beat-obama?wpisrc=root_more_news
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The private retreat, which is an annual three-day event for the wealthy,
Republican politicians and conservative activists, is the ninth
consecutive one hosted by the Koch brothers.
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Because there are limits on the amount a donor can give an individual
presidential candidate, the majority of these funds will be funneled
directly to super PACs or nonprofits that can accept and spend an
unlimited amount of funds.
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When you sit down and watch each Republican debate, the one thing missing
from all of them is solutions. If it isn't endless talking about how Obama
has ruined the country, they are wasting the rest of our time going at
each other's throat.
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Koch Brothers, Allies Pledge $100 Million At Private Meeting To Beat Obama
First Posted: 02/ 3/2012 3:43 pm
Updated: 02/ 3/2012 9:05 pm
Amanda Terkelaterkel and Ryan Grimryan
Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/03/
koch-brothers-100-million-obama_n_1250828.html
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The semi-annual, invitation-only meeting attracts wealthy donors,
Republican politicians and conservative activists. Last year, hundreds of
activists gathered outside the walled-off resort to protest the meeting.
This year, however, the conference went off quietly.
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"Conference organizers and their guests successfully slipped in and out of
the Coachella Valley without being detected, by buying out nearly all of
the 500-plus rooms at the Renaissance Esmeralda resort in Indian Wells,"
reported The Desert Sun. "The resort closed its restaurants, locked down
the grounds with private security guards and sent many workers home."
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This is the ninth straight year the Kochs have hosted the conference. As
Politico reported last year, the meetings often adjourn "after soliciting
pledges of support from the donors -- sometimes totaling as much as $50
million -- to nonprofit groups favored by the Kochs."
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The fact that the wealthy conservative donors pledged $100 million for the
2012 elections shows how intent they are on trying to get Obama out of
office -- and previews how intense, and likely nasty, the general election
will be.
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GOP primary voters have already gotten a glimpse of how the political
system looks with super PACs around: record amounts of money spent on a
large number of negative ads in the early primary states.
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The Koch brothers have been the major donors behind many Republican
candidates, the Tea Party movement and efforts to discredit the science
around man-made global warming. Democrats frequently highlight the
brothers to fundraise, and the first TV ad of the Obama reelection
campaign invoked them as "secretive oil billionaires attacking President
Obama with ads fact checkers say are not tethered to the facts."
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Also at the conference was Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of the Citadel
Investment Group.
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The Center for Public Integrity also reported that for the first time, Las
Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson attended the conference. Adelson
and his family are largely bankrolling Newt Gingrich's presidential run,
with Adelson and his wife, Miriam, having given the pro-Gingrich super PAC
Winning Our Future $10 million just this year.
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Koch brothers driving anti-Obama hate machine
Bill Press
Tribune Media Services
2:05 p.m. EST, February 3, 2012
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/
views/os-ed-bill-press-020212-20120203,0,4261970.column
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No, not even close. Hillel's urgent plea "If not now, when?" was
appropriated by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch in a letter of
invitation summoning CEOs to a fundraising summit in Rancho Mirage,
Calif., in January 2011. It was imperative that they join forces,
explained Charles Koch, "to combat what is now the greatest threat to
American freedom and prosperity in our lifetimes" -- the administration of
Barack Obama.
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This was not the first such meeting called by the Koch Brothers. They'd
been holding semi-annual gatherings of corporate barons since 2003,
sprinkled with right-wing journalists, politicians, and Supreme Court
justices. Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas sat in. So did Jim DeMint,
Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie and Rick Perry. Conservative
pundits Charles Krauthammer, Michael Barone and Glenn Beck shed any
pretense of objectivity to attend and wow the crowd of executives
representing many of America's biggest corporations: the Bechtel Group,
the Fluor Corporation, Georgia-Pacific, Home Depot, Wells Fargo, the
Blackstone Group, Circuit City, and Laredo Petroleum, among others.
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Nor was this, as Charles Koch described it, just an innocent gathering
of "some of America's greatest philanthropists and job creators." No, this
was a meeting to line up corporate opposition to President Obama's
re-election -- and a very successful one. Corporations attending the
Rancho Mirage summit pledged $49 million for the 2012 anti-Obama campaign.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg of what the Koch brothers have
raised and pumped into politics over the last 20 years.
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As I learned in researching my book, "The Obama Hate Machine," Charles and
David Koch, with a combined wealth of $50 billion, are two of the richest
men in the country. With more than $100 billion in annual revenues, Koch
Industries is a mammoth energy and manufacturing conglomerate. They
operate oil refineries in Alaska, Texas and Minnesota. They control 4,000
miles of pipelines. They own Georgia-Pacific. They have 70,000 employees
in 60 countries.
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But it's because of their political activity that the brothers Koch have
recently gained notoriety. Together, they're probably the nation's biggest
political donors. Nobody else -- not George Soros, not Bill Gates, not
even Sheldon Adelson -- comes close. And their influence is everywhere.
They're major funders of two conservative think tanks, the Heritage
Foundation and the Cato Institute. They've created pseudo-scientific
research centers on many college campuses, like the Mercatus Center of
George Mason University. They're the sugar daddies behind two powerful
political organizations, FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity --
which is currently running anti-Obama TV ads in 10 states. They were the
money bags behind the tea party. They put up the funds to oppose new
mining safety regulations in West Virginia, overturn tough mileage
standards in California, and elect Scott Walker in Wisconsin. And, by my
count, they're principal sources of funding for at least 57 conservative
political action groups.
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Indeed, their political empire is so vast it's been called the
"Kochtopus." Charles Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity,
told the New Yorker's Jane Mayer, "The Kochs are on a whole different
level. There's no one else who has spent this much money. They are the
Standard Oil of our times."
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NEWS & POLITICS
Republic Report / ByLee Fang
185 COMMENTS
Koch Brothers Convene Super-Secret Billionaires' Meeting for 2012
Elections
Some of America's wealthiest Republicans flew into Palm Springs last
weekend to update their stealthy political strategy for 2012.
AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/news/153998/koch_brothers_
convene_super-secret_billionaires'_meeting_for_2012_elections
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Though the donors will funnel tens of millions of dollars into the
election this year, they will not have to disclose a single cent. Using an
elaborate array of foundations, nonprofits and other legal entities, the
Koch network sponsored bus tours, attack ads, think tanks, and hired Tea
Party organizers to shape the midterm elections two years ago. Now, they
appear to be expanding their effort.
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The most the public knows about these meetings has been culled from leaked
audio tapes, reporting from journalists like Ken Vogel, and from an
invitation I exclusively reported back in October 2010. The document I
posted over a year ago explained that during the meetings, strategy is
discussed, from legislative campaigns to judicial elections, and money is
raised from an assortment of executives from the oil, banking,
manufacturing, and real estate industries.
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At the Palm Springs Airport last weekend, I ran into Phil Kerpen, the vice
president of Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party group founded by
David Koch. Kerpen, who was in a rush to make it to the event, didnt say
much about the agenda. Kerpens group recently purchased $6 million in
undisclosed attack ads against President Obama, the largest such buy of
the entire campaign cycle so far.
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Kerpen asked how I knew about the conference. I thought they had stopped
all leaks, he muttered, as I walked with him through the baggage claim.
Eventually he relented a bit and told me that he hopes to help achieve
aggressive cuts to government spending and to regulation to allow robust
economic growth in January 2013.
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The jets provided many clues into who was attending the event. A private
plane owned by wealthy mutual fund manager Foster Friess flew to the area
the morning of the conference, and left the day it ended. Friess is a
social conservative who has gained headlines recently for his massive
backing of a super-PAC supporting Rick Santorum. He has also attended the
Koch meeting in the past.
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A plane belonging to billionaire investor Phil Anschutz, another regular
Koch attendee and major conservative financier, arrived at a nearby
airport during the event. We identified over half a dozen private planes
owned by major Republican donors that also arrived in the Indian Wells
area during the event, but none of their owners would respond to requests
for comment.
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The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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