Go ahead. Laugh at those Wisconsin rubes, and how they’re letting themselves get played by a couple of New York billionaires. I mean, it could never happen here, right?
Think again, country bumpkins.
As was reported last fall on HA (and very little anywhere else), the Koch brothers, through their Tea Party associated front group, Americans for Prosperity, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars helping Republican Jaime Herrera win election in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District this past November… even after shutting down a mill and outsourcing over 300 jobs in her home town of Camas!
And my friend Kirby Wilbur—the newly elected chair of the Washington State Republican Party—he ran the Washington chapter of Americans for Prosperity this past election year, overseeing questionable (and quite possibly illegal) campaign finance and reporting activities on behalf of the Kochs.
So if you think what’s going on in Wisconsin under Koch-toady Gov. Scott Walker, couldn’t happen here under say, Governor Rob McKenna… well… you might want to look for my feature in next week’s edition of The Stranger.
You know what’s funny? The Koch family fortune comes from their assisting Stalin (yeah THAT Stalin) in building up the Soviet energy infrastructure.
Kinda like the Bush’s helping Hitler in the 1930’s.
Aren’t conservatives so fucking patriotic?!?!?!?
Outsourcing 300 jobs?
Where are the bonfires?
In 1967, after Fred Koch died, of a heart attack, Charles renamed the business Koch Industries, in honor of his father. Fred Koch’s will made his sons extraordinarily wealthy. David Koch joked about his good fortune in a 2003 speech to alumni at Deerfield, where, after pledging twenty-five million dollars, he was made the school’s sole “lifetime trustee.” He said, “You might ask: How does David Koch happen to have the wealth to be so generous? Well, let me tell you a story. It all started when I was a little boy. One day, my father gave me an apple. I soon sold it for five dollars and bought two apples and sold them for ten. Then I bought four apples and sold them for twenty. Well, this went on day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, until my father died and left me three hundred million dollars!”
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/…
You can’t save people who spitefully refuse to save themselves. If the majority of our nation’s sadistic, aggressively ignorant, hate-crazed population choose to elect Republicans to nuke the middle class, then there’s really not a whole lot that the relative handful of sane, decent people can do about it. THAT’S DUHMOCKRASEE!
…to Koch-Cheese?
Rob McKenna’s not going to BE governor.
@7 sure he is – when he moves to Idaho.
Scott Walker’s been sucking a lot of Koch.
I hope I don’t ever have to see the words ‘governor’ and ‘Rob McKenna’ together ever again. They leave a foul taste in my mouth.