[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY : INDUSTRIES: PETROLEUM INDUSTRY : POLITICS: 6 Reasons the Koch Brothers Had a Very Bad Week
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY, TEA PARTY :
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6 Reasons the Koch Brothers Had a Very Bad Week
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6 Reasons the Koch Brothers Had a Very Bad Week
An FBI investigation, a new documentary, and a court's overturning one of
their pet politicians' pet laws: here's a look inside the Kochs' worst
week in a while.
April 2, 2012
By Adele M. Stan
http://www.alternet.org/election2012/154795/
6_reasons_the_koch_brothers_had_a_very_bad_week/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/6vzlsld
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Were there a way for a few billion clams to wipe a week off the calendar,
one imagines that Charles and David Koch, the multibillionaire principals
of Koch Industries, would like to see the final week of March 2012
vaporized, at least in the public mind. For the Kochs, it was a week of
bad news: a new documentary about their political activity and corporate
negligence was making a splash -- on the same day a story
broke announcing an FBI investigation of two Wisconsin groups tied to
Americans for Prosperity, the political ground organization they founded
and fund. (Full disclosure: AlterNet is a supporter of the documentary,
Koch Brothers Exposed, and I appear in the film.)
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Things got even worse the next day when, on Friday, March 30, the
billionaire brothers learned that a federal court handed down a decision
that may ultimately require certain non-profit groups, such as Americans
For Prosperity, to reveal their full donor list, and the New Yorker's Jane
Mayer, who wrote a devastating profile of the brothers last year, reported
on the Kochs' involvement in a barrage of anti-Obama ads sponsored by a
tax-exempt non-profit called the American Energy Alliance, which may also
now be required to reveal its donor list.
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On the very same day, another federal court struck down portions of
Wisconsin's controversial law that stripped collective bargaining rights
from most of the state's public employees -- a law championed by Americans
for Prosperity, and rammed through the state legislature a year ago by the
AFP-supported Gov. Scott Walker. Here, we take a closer look at the
reasons the Kochs had a very bad week.
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1. An FBI Investigation
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Just hours before the premiere showing of Koch Brothers Exposed in
Manhattan on Thursday, March 29, the Miwaukee Journal Sentinel's Daniel
Bice broke the news that the FBI was investigating possibly illegal
activity by two groups led by Mark Block, former director of the AFP
Wisconsin chapter, during his stint as campaign manager for former GOP
presidential candidate Herman Cain. (The Hermanator famously referred to
David Koch as his "brother from another mother" at an event hosted by the
oil baron in Washington, D.C., last year.) Among documents uncovered by
Bice last year was a profit-and-loss statement for Prosperity USA, a
nonprofit group headed by Block, which details travel costs for a visit
last year with David Koch and Americans For Prosperity President Tim
Phillips in Washington, D.C.
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While that's not proof of wrongdoing, it is proof David Koch's link to
Block, a very shady character who has been prosecuted in the past for
violating Wisconsin election law.
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The Journal Sentinel reports: "FBI agents have been talking to donors and
other individuals connected with Prosperity USA and Wisconsin Prosperity
Network," both non-profits founded by Block while he was at the helm of
AFP-Wisconsin.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan
GOP Hopeful Herman Cain: David Koch's Stalking Horse?
What goes unremarked in profiles of Herman Cain is his connection to the
Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the organization founded by David
Koch.
http://tinyurl.com/c9zj8eq
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AlterNet / By Adele M. Stan
The End of the Herman Cain Campaign?
(It's Not What You Think)
Sexual harassment allegations aren't the only thing troubling Cain's
campaign--there's also the dirty politics of his campaign manager, Mark
Block.
http://tinyurl.com/7464tow
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