[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY: Why the Kochs Want to Make Chris Christie President

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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:07:08 -0400 (EDT)


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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY:

Why the Kochs Want to Make Chris Christie President

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Why the Kochs Want to Make Chris Christie President

AlterNet

By Adele M. Stan

http://www.alternet.org/news/152553/why_the_kochs_want_to_make_chris_christie_president/


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Neither Romney nor Perry has done the one thing that truly excites theKoch brothers and their fellow deep-pocketed Christie fans: take on thepublic sector unions in a big way.


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When Texas Gov. Rick Perry, currently the frontrunner in the Republicanpresidential nomination contest, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made apilgrimage in June to a Colorado gathering of wealthy right-wing donorsconvened by billionaires Charles and David Koch, one man clearly impressedthe brothers much more than the other.

Introducing Christie, who delivered the keynote address to the KochIndustries gathering, David Koch gushed. "With his enormous success inreforming New Jersey, some day we might see him on a larger stage where,God knows, he is desperately needed," said Koch, according to secretlyrecorded audio files of the event obtained by Brad Friedman of the BradBlog.

Yet Christie, foe of teachers and their unions, had made it plain monthsbefore in no uncertain terms: he was not running for president. "[S]hortof suicide, I don't really know what I'd have to do to convince you peoplethat I'm not running," Christie told a group of reporters in February."I'm not running."

His protestations aside, a new push for a Christie candidacy by a handfulof high-flying Republican political donors -- including Koch, themoneybags behind the Tea Party aligned group, Americans for Prosperity,and countless other right-wing organizations and efforts -- has thepolitical world aflutter at the prospect of the pugilistic formerprosecutor on the debate stand. Republican luminaries including IndianaGov. Mitch Daniels and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol have suggestedChristie enter the presidential contest, and even Karl Rove has publiclymused on that possibility. Further stoking the speculation, Christie lastnight delivered at the Reagan Library a speech that sounded for all of theworld like the rationale for a Christie presidential candidacy.

Recent stumbles by Texas Gov. Rick Perry on the presidential campaigntrail have widened the opening for a late entrant into the race for theGOP presidential nomination, a course that former vice presidentialcandidate and former Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, is said to beconsidering. But the money and momentum for an October surprise candidacythese days is on Christie.

Uniting a small group of big-money donors, dubbed the "Draft ChristieCommittee" by New York Times reporter Nicholas Confessore, are two things:a hatred for labor unions and a desire for a Republican win in November2012, something they seem unconvinced that either Perry or formerMassachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney can deliver.

There's little doubt that Christie is reconsidering his earlier decisionto stay out of the presidential race. "It's real," former N.J. Gov. ThomasKean told Robert Costa of the National Review Online. "He's giving it alot of thought. I think the odds are a lot better now than they were acouple weeks ago." Kean, says Costa, is an "informal adviser" ofChristie's. Yesterday, Christie hit the stump on behalf of Republicancandidates -- something he does a lot -- in addition to traveling toCalifornia to deliver what was billed as major speech in Simi Valley lastnight.


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