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9 signs the Kochs have created their own national political party
Salon ^ | January 3, 2015 | Steven Rosenfeld

Posted on 01/29/2015 4:50:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Maybe I missed it, but I don't think he mentioned George Soros or any other left-leaning "dark money" financier in that screed.
1 posted on 01/29/2015 4:50:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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I honestly wonder what would happen to people like the author if they didn’t have people like the Koch Brothers to whine about and accuse of all manner of silly things.


2 posted on 01/29/2015 4:54:54 PM PST by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be earned and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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Whatever happened to Halliburton?

I’m guessing they probably didn’t go out of business.


3 posted on 01/29/2015 4:58:08 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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Also not mentioned is the participation by labor unions in support of Democrats


4 posted on 01/29/2015 4:58:16 PM PST by WILLIALAL
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He also was quite efficient in not giving the Dems much ink, despite 4000 operatives.


5 posted on 01/29/2015 4:58:48 PM PST by chopperman
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Actually, I don’t think 99.9% of Americans really care about the Koch brothers, or even know who they are.


6 posted on 01/29/2015 5:03:25 PM PST by CondorFlight (I)
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To: WILLIALAL
If the TEA Party or something else could become the equivalent of the unions, the Democrats would never win another presidential election. Of course, the Left has 98% of the press, at least half of the bloggers, almost all the NGOs, academia, Hollywood, Broadway, writers, the homosexual press & organizations, much of Wall Street and Silicon Valley and more.
7 posted on 01/29/2015 5:04:27 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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A third party could start with their help.


8 posted on 01/29/2015 5:09:48 PM PST by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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Good point.

A few hundred paid staff is equivalent to one Union’s support for the Democrats.

But the real Soros Party is all of the Government-funded Left wing advocacy groups. Acorn, environmental groups; groups to organize and agitate based on race, gender and sexuality, etc.

Hell just the Gov’t paid Obamacare navigators in California alone outnumber them.


9 posted on 01/29/2015 5:09:50 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: RWB Patriot

commies always have enemies to get rid of. they never tire of it.


10 posted on 01/29/2015 5:18:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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do’we’ever hear about the thousands of liberal unions in this country and the mountains of money they pour into politics to affect outcomes the way they want and doing their best not to disclose their finances to the public and hiding behind laws that protect them from doing so?


11 posted on 01/29/2015 5:20:31 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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The Koch’s have allocated something like $900 million for political campaigns leading up to 2016?

OK by me. They are libertarian leaning conservatives. Probably their views mirror a good fraction of the Americans.

I hear no complaints about plutocrats when the former SonderKommando and convicted currency swindler they get their money from starts slingin’ that kinda cash around.


12 posted on 01/29/2015 5:20:38 PM PST by Regulator
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Check out and see if Soros has funded the Marxist Working Families Party (based in New York). According to an “in” source on the WFP, they control or influence by threats of organized/thuggish opposition, much of the state Democrat Party and even some of the Republicans, but esp. the New York City Council which is led by a Marxist.

In fact, the NYC Council has a controlling/dominating-with- their-influence faction known as the Progressive Caucus. Somewhere between 10-15 hard core Marxists supported by (including thru intimidation) another 19 or so Dems, giving them majority control.

The WFP is also tied up real tight with the old Marxist ACORN organization and it has been noted that ACORN’s old Marxist leader, Bertha Lewis, now heads its new formulation (something about Organization for Community Change or a variation of that name).

Also the TIDES Foundation/Democratic Alliance is reportedly involved in all of these groups, with Soros money and the old SDS-network running it (i.e. Jeff Jones, Weatherman).

This is off the top of my head based on a long conversation I had with a native New Yorker the other day. There should be more, organized information on the WFP, ACORN, OCC, etc. at the following two database/organization sites, www.keywiki.org and www.USASurvival.org, and perhaps, www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org.

The key name is “Families Working Party”, then ACORD, Tides Foundation, Bertha Lewis, New York City Council’s website, etc.


13 posted on 01/29/2015 5:22:56 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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Are you saying that Americans won’t be suckered in by the Kochs?


14 posted on 01/29/2015 5:23:28 PM PST by Misterioso (IÂ’m just the opposite of paranoid. I keep having the feeling IÂ’m following someone. - Zoot Sims)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He left out they secretly sent a tech to loosen the screw for the belt that caressed Harry Reid.


15 posted on 01/29/2015 5:23:30 PM PST by txhurl (RINOs: conservatives aren't electable yet they disguise themselves as conservatives to win.)
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LOL! Yup. It’s like “George who?” Can you count on 2 hands all the subversive NGO’s that he and the other socialist fund? I couldn’t do it using my feet and my wifes hands and feet to come up with that number. I’m sure some FReeper will have a list to post.


16 posted on 01/29/2015 5:24:29 PM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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Funny how the Democrat media can’t bring themselves to mention the tentacles of the Soros conspiracy in this country. He gives far more money to Leftist operations than the Koch brothers do to the Right, yet they can’t run stories about that, it seems.


17 posted on 01/29/2015 5:26:54 PM PST by txrefugee
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You’d need a platoon’s worth of fingers and toes to count the hundreds of NGOs, maybe even thousands.


18 posted on 01/29/2015 5:27:31 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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I would reply to this but......

My head exploded and I have to put it all back together to form a cogent thought.


19 posted on 01/29/2015 5:29:37 PM PST by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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Are you saying that Americans won’t be suckered in by the Kochs?

If they were, why they’d be .. they’d be . . . uh, they’d be . . . .

They say the straight man actually has the tougher job.


20 posted on 01/29/2015 5:31:36 PM PST by Flash Bazbeaux
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