[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM : LIBRETARIANISM : Democrats Take on the Koch Brothers
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
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Democrats Take on the Koch Brothers
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Democrats Take on the Koch Brothers
By Dana Bash,
Chief Congressional Correspondent
CNN
updated 5:56 PM EDT, Fri May 16, 2014
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/16/politics/who-are-the-koch-brothers/
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Washington (CNN) -- Flooding the airwaves this election year in
battleground states across the country are Democratic ads featuring two
men not on any ballot, and not even politicians.
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They're the Koch brothers, billionaire businessmen and GOP mega donors.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid takes the unusual step of regularly
ripping Charles and David Koch from the Senate floor. He says they have
"no conscience," calling them "un-American." And now, is proposing a
constitutional amendment to ban the kind of anonymous political giving the
Kochs engage in and, some experts say, perfected.
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Other high-profile Democrats are hitting the Kochs, too -- from Vice
President Joe Biden to former Vice President Al Gore, who this week argued
Republicans are reluctant to publicly accept the existence of man-made
global warming for fear of crossing the Koch brothers.
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"I don't think it's particularly complicated. They will face primary
opponents financed by the Koch brothers and others who are part of their
group," Gore said.
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Democratic sources tell CNN it's a carefully crafted strategy to make the
Koch brothers the 2014 election villains -- the personification of the
rich manipulating the political system -- bankrolling a GOP agenda to get
richer.
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"The Koch brothers seem to believe in an America where the system is
rigged to benefit the very wealthy," Reid says as part of his regular
anti-Koch rant.
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Democrats are also trying to goad Republicans into publicly defending them
as a way to attack GOP candidate as being in the Kochs' pockets.
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It begs the question: How wealthy are they?
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Forbes magazine puts Charles and David Koch as the fourth-richest men in
the United States, with a fortune of more than $41 billion.
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An oil, gas and textile conglomerate
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Their oil, gas and textile conglomerate, Koch Industries, makes products
people use every day: Dixie Cups, toilet paper, Stainmaster products and
even LYCRA. Their business is privately held. The brothers own 84% of Koch
Industries shares.
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Their libertarian politics come from their father, Fred Koch, a chemical
engineer whose experience working in the Soviet Union instilled an
aversion to big government.
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Charles and David Koch spend tens of millions of their personal wealth to
push those anti-big government views. But exactly how much they donate is
impossible to track because it is cloaked in secrecy. They fund groups
that are not required to disclose donors -- groups that work to determine
the outcome of federal, state and even municipal elections.
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"They are very secretive in the way they operate politically," explained
Dave Levinthal of the Center for Public Integrity, which tracks political
spending.
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"They have a very vast and wide network of non-profit and limited
liability companies," he said.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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ALEC is one of the organizations the Koch Brothers helped to create and
heavily support along with corporations like Google.
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