Today, ProPublica's Kim Barker and Theodoric Meyer examine the Kochs' network of "dark money" groups that spend money on politics and the role of Sean Noble, a former congressional aide, in shaping it.See below:
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Covert Operations, The New Yorker, August 2010 Jane Mayer's profile on the Koch brothers details the libertarian movement that they've built and the extent of their influence on politics. From funding climate change denial to opposition of the Obama administration's policies, Mayer describes how the brothers' political views "dovetail with [their] corporate interests."
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Koch-Backed Political Coalition, Designed to Shield Donors, Raised $400 Million in 2012, The Washington Post, January 2014 The Washington Post outlines the structure and internal operations of the Koch network in the 2012 elections, including their strategies to protect donor identities and obscure the flow of money.
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Koch World 2014, Politico, January 2014 Politico details the Kochs' plans to roll out "a new, more integrated approach to politics" in 2014. Having learned from their 2012 election letdown, the Kochs are expanding and reorganizing to improve in key areas, including "greater investments in grassroots organizing, better use of voter data and more effective appeals to young and Hispanic voters."
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Largest Dark-Money Donor Groups Share Funds, Hide Links, OpenSecrets, September 2013Tax filings show how dark money groups tied to the Koch brothers have been using "shadow money mailboxes" to obfuscate the identity of their donors. By first funneling donations through subsidiary limited-liability companies, the groups have been able to make it harder to figure out how the money is flowing.
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A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning, The New York Times, October 2013Several groups with ties to the Koch brothers helped fund the 2013 congressional battle over Obamacare and the resulting government shutdown. "The current budget brinkmanship is just the latest development in a well-financed, broad-based assault on the health law," the Times reported. The groups paid for television ads and distributed scripts for people to call members of Congress.
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A Word from our Sponsor, The New Yorker, May 2013 The New Yorker's Jane Mayer charts a public TV station's treatment of two documentaries that portrayed David Koch in a negative light. Concerned that one of their major funders would back out, the station offered Koch a chance to respond to the first documentary and aired it along with his comment. The second documentary never aired. Filmmakers said it was because the station began "to fear the reaction [their] film would provoke."
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Kochworld, Texas Observer, October 2012In Corpus Christi's Hillcrest, where Koch Industries enjoys tax incentives and lax environmental regulations, health problems abound. Despite having faced federal indictments for polluting Corpus Christi's air and waterways, the Kochs have continued to make millions off of their refineries and have plans to expand. Meanwhile, Hillcrest residents living in the shadow of the Koch refineries are "mired in illness and poverty."
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Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar Mother Jones, September 2011 In 2011, Mother Jones obtained recordings from the top-secret meeting that the Koch brothers hold twice a year for their wealthy donors. In the recording, the brothers name 32 individuals and families who'd donated over a million dollars — contributions that had previously been secret.
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Karl Rove Vs. the Koch Brothers, Politico, October 2011 Up until 2010,Karl Rove and the Koch brothers worked together in spending millions on conservative endeavors. But by 2011, they were at loggerheads as Rove's advocacy groups pushed for an increase in the debt ceiling as Koch groups opposed raising it. In this article, Politico compares strategies used by Rove and the Kochs to gain political advantages.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Uh oh! Box is resurrecting a Koch Bros conspiracy!
The US govt spies on its citizens, the citizens of it's allies, and fallen to 46th in the world for Freedom of the Press, and box is posting Koch Bros conspiracies....Oh how far have we fallen!
Uh oh! Box is resurrecting a Koch Bros conspiracy!
The US govt spies on its citizens, the citizens of it's allies, and fallen to 46th in the world for Freedom of the Press, and box is posting Koch Bros conspiracies....Oh how far have we fallen!
I didn't post anything other than information that can be obtained at their sources listed in the post. My only comment was the title and the pic. None of the words are mine, and the rest is up to the reader to evaluate as to it's value.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I didn't post anything other than information that can be obtained at their sources listed in the post. My only comment was the title and the pic. None of the words are mine, and the rest is up to the reader to evaluate as to it's value.
Yes, thanks for enlightening me to wealthy people shaping public policy(see Obamacare). I would have never known. If we could just get rid of those darn Koch Bros, we would never have to worry about wealthy people influencing legislation to benefit their interest.
This is earth shattering revelations in American government and politics.
Yes, thanks for enlightening me to wealthy people shaping public policy(see Obamacare). I would have never known. If we could just get rid of those darn Koch Bros, we would never have to worry about wealthy people influencing legislation to benefit their interest.
This is earth shattering revelations in American government and politics.
Cissy is immune to any knowledge that doesn't fit into his comfort zone. It's like "knowledge teflon"... in Cicero's brain, any new knowledge just bounces right off!
Cissy could read and evaluate the views expressed, but that would require effort.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
in Cicero's brain, any new knowledge just bounces right off!
Cissy could read and evaluate the views expressed, but that would require effort.
Yeah..."New Knowledge".
Here is some new knowledge from 2011 and 2013.
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Several big donors to Hillary Clinton now facing criminal allegations By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 19, 2011; 7:24 PM
The indictment of a top Northern Virginia fundraiser last week is the latest in a series of criminal cases that have ensnared campaign donors to Hillary Rodham Clinton, who relied heavily on wealthy bundlers in her failed 2008 bid for the presidency.
Federal grand jury indictments handed up in Alexandria allege that Galen Capital Group Chairman William P. Danielczyk Jr. and his treasurer illegally reimbursed nearly $190,000 in donations to Clinton's 2006 and 2008 campaigns, sometimes with corporate funds.
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Clinton supporter suspected of illegal donations 6:00 am, July 12, 2013 Updated: 6:11 pm, September 11, 2013
Employees of a Washington, D.C.-based accounting firm that federal prosecutors called an “assembly line for illegal campaign contributions” donated more than $500,000 to federal candidates and committees over the past 10 years, including nearly $50,000 to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of records.
An employee and a consultant for the firm, formerly run by Jeffrey Thompson, pleaded guilty last month in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to making so-called straw donations to several federal and D.C. campaigns. The two men — Lee Calhoun and Stanley Straughter — made donations in their names and their family members’ names and were then reimbursed by Thompson or his firm, Thompson, Cobb, Bazilio & Associates.
The charges stem from a federal investigation of the 2010 campaign of Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray. At the center of the probe is Thompson, who has been implicated by prosecutors as the financier of an illegal, off-the-books $650,000 “shadow campaign” that federal prosecutors say helped get Gray elected
The biggest beneficiary of those funds was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose campaigns took in $50,400. Clinton’s presidential campaign committee received $40,300 from employees at Thompson’s firm in November 2007, when she attended an intimate fundraiser at the company’s headquarters in downtown D.C., according to three people who were at the event.
Other recipients includePresident Barack Obama ($14,500 in the 2008 cycle), former Democratic presidential candidate and Secretary of State John Kerry ($20,000 in the 2004 cycle), former Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain ($13,800 in the 2008 cycle) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ($9,600 in 2009).
Thompson himself made political contributions totaling at least $215,000 in that same period.
WOW!!! What a revelation!!!! Hil-lie-ry accepting illegal donations? I thought only the Koch brothers influenced politics? Man, all this "new knowledge" about government officials corrupted by money. I can't wait to go tell all my friends about this new knowledge.
Yeah..."New Knowledge". Several big donors to Hillary Clinton now facing criminal allegations
Saturday, February 19, 2011; Here is some new knowledge from 2011 and 2013.
Yea. 2011 is NEW KNOWLEDGE!
But if that's the best that Cissy can do, I'll take a look at it. I'm always open to new knowledge, except from Ron Paul. Everything he puts out is a rehash from the Birchers circa 1950!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
But if that's the best that Cissy can do, I'll take a look at it. I'm always open to new knowledge, except from Ron Paul. Everything he puts out is a rehash from the Birchers circa 1950!
Yeah, but you beat me with your really-really "new knowledge" - 2010.
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Covert Operations, The New Yorker, August 2010 Jane Mayer's profile on the Koch brothers details the libertarian movement that they've built and the extent of their influence on politics. From funding climate change denial to opposition of the Obama administration's policies, Mayer describes how the brothers' political views "dovetail with [their] corporate interests.
Now that the Koch Bros have been exposed, Boxy will be targeting Soros next.
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
Yeah, but you beat me with your really-really "new knowledge" - 2010.
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I'm glad you actually read enough to know that the data is from before 2010 to the present day.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Now that the Koch Bros have been exposed, Boxy will be targeting Soros next.
Soros has been exposed on this board countless times. I doub that I could add anything new.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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