tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832236349540926420.post4960520915794870188..comments2023-06-03T07:31:58.418-05:00Comments on The Critically Pissed: Is Walker in bed with the Koch brothers? (by anon)Critically Pissedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08616961824286610531noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832236349540926420.post-76226272765626090752011-02-27T06:33:55.533-06:002011-02-27T06:33:55.533-06:00There will be no compromise. The Koch bros are in ...There will be no compromise. The Koch bros are in it for the duration. No retreat. No surrender. Score a victory for the Koch Bros. John Birch is not dead. He lives on in the Koch Bros.<br /><br /><br />Fulfilling Father’s Campaign To Segregate Public Schools, Koch Groups End Successful Integration Program In NC<br /><br /> Today in the Washington Post, reporter Stephanie McCrummen detailed how a right-wing campaign in the Wake County area of North Carolina has taken over the school board with a pledge to end a very successful socio-economic integration plan. The integration plan, which created thriving schools in poor African-American parts of the school district along with achieving diversity in schools located in wealthy white enclaves, was a model for the nation. However, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), the Tea Party group founded and funded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, worked with local right-wing financier (and AFP board member) Art Pope to fundamentally change Wake County’s school board:<br /><br />In their quest to end the diversity policy, the frustrated parents have found some influential partners, among them retail magnate and Republican operative Art Pope. Following his guidance, the GOP fielded the victorious bloc of school board candidates who railed against “forced busing.” The nation’s largest tea party organizers, Americans for Prosperity – on whose national board Pope sits – cast the old school board members as arrogant “leftists.” Two libertarian think tanks, which Pope funds almost exclusively, have deployed experts on TV and radio.<br /><br />In a way, the Koch brothers are simply fulfilling their father’s legacy. In 1958, Fred Koch — the founder of Koch Industries — joined a group of manufacturing executives and Robert Welch to found the John Birch Society, a virulent far-right group that dominated the civil rights debate. The John Birch Society organized an impeachment campaign against then-Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren for the Brown v. Board decision outlawing racial segregation, and mobilized its supporters to oppose integration of schools on the grounds that mixing black and white would lead to the “mongrelization” of the races. Fred supported the John Birch Society’s anti-civil rights campaign, and wrote a screed denouncing the civil rights movement as communist-inspired.<br /><br />Charles and David did not only inherit an oil company, they inherited a political philosophy. The Tea Party movement, orchestrated by AFP and other Koch fronts, reflects the paranoid style of the movement started by their father, Fred. As Thom Hartmann has explained, corporate interests have long funded far-right, paranoid movements to continually shift the balance of politics in America. The radical right creates political space for corporate candidates like Richard Nixon or Mitt Romney to appear “moderate” in contrast. David Koch, it should be noted, actually supports Romney for president in 2012 even though David’s fronts have spent the last two years boosting reactionaries like Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC).<br /><br />Sue Sturgis of Facing South has reported that the AFP campaign in Wake County was also aided by the private school industry, including a company called the Thales Academy. AFP has called for more charter and private schools, and now with its slate of Tea Party candidates controlling the system, they will have the power to continue their racially-segregated privatization scheme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832236349540926420.post-3358758841646699482011-02-23T04:54:12.438-06:002011-02-23T04:54:12.438-06:00These bastards are not playing. They are moving fa...These bastards are not playing. They are moving fast to wipe unions out and pave the way for the rise of the Republican fascists. Read what the Koch Bros did next door:<br /><br />Republican Lawmakers Oust Union Leader From U. of Minnesota Board<br /><br />Republican lawmakers in Minnesota, who seized control of both chambers of the state Legislature in last November’s elections, have flexed their muscle by ousting a state AFL-CIO official from a seat on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents traditionally held by a labor representative, the Pioneer Press reports. The lawmakers also elected two former Republican state legislators to the board, leaving three of the board’s 12 seats held by former Minnesota lawmakers. (The third is a Democrat.) Some Democrats in the Legislature have complained that partisan political considerations are playing too big a role in determining the board’s makeup, but Republicans have argued that all of the board’s new members are highly qualified.<br /><br />This shit is on now! Biddy "John Gotti" may one day regret getting n bed with Walker and the Koch Bros.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832236349540926420.post-69349975004116414182011-02-22T22:12:01.393-06:002011-02-22T22:12:01.393-06:00I SOOOO want Walker to fall flat.I SOOOO want Walker to fall flat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832236349540926420.post-69194315933904285092011-02-22T17:21:08.741-06:002011-02-22T17:21:08.741-06:00The shit is on now. The Koch Bros are in Madison. ...The shit is on now. The Koch Bros are in Madison. This is a fight to the finish. The gloves are off. This is Ali Frazier, the Trilla in Manila. Don't believe me, then read the following story in the State Journal. The Koch Bros are here:<br /><br />The billionaire brothers whose political action committee gave Gov. Scott Walker $43,000 and helped fund a multi-million-dollar attack ad campaign against his opponent during the 2010 gubernatorial election have quietly opened a lobbying office in Madison just off the Capitol Square.<br /><br />Read the rest of the story at the Wis State Journal web site. The shit is on now. Mubarak is gone, Gadalfi is running for his life, and other tin horn dictators like Walker are trembling as the people move forward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832236349540926420.post-70942466324697499912011-02-18T13:53:02.195-06:002011-02-18T13:53:02.195-06:00From a blog...
**"Mother Jones" explore...From a blog...<br /><br />**"Mother Jones" explores Wisconsin Governor Scott Brown's relationship with the notorious conservative billionaire Koch brothers:<br /><br /> According to Wisconsin campaign finance filings, Walker's gubernatorial campaign received $43,000 from the Koch Industries PAC during the 2010 election. That donation was his campaign's second-highest, behind $43,125 in contributions from housing and realtor groups in Wisconsin. The Koch's PAC also helped Walker via a familiar and much-used politicial maneuver designed to allow donors to skirt campaign finance limits. The PAC gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, which in turn spent $65,000 on independent expenditures to support Walker. The RGA also spent a whopping $3.4 million on TV ads and mailers attacking Walker's opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Walker ended up beating Barrett by 5 points. The Koch money, no doubt, helped greatly.**Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com