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Harry Reid Attacks Koch Brothers for Offenses Committed by Reid Donors
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 04/04/2014 | Lachlan Markay

Posted on 04/04/2014 8:59:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) on Wednesday criticized a Koch Industries subsidiary for allegedly circumventing sanctions on Iran even though Reid has accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from companies that have done exactly that.

Reid also claimed that the Kochs support the recently introduced House Republican budget proposal. Neither the company nor its owners has taken a position on the legislation.

Reid’s claims were part of an ongoing offensive against libertarian philanthropists Charles and David Koch. Reid has accused them of being “un-American” for donating to groups that oppose the Democratic Party’s agenda.

A page on Reid’s Senate website is devoted entirely to attacking the Kochs. It initially cited former White House economist Austan Goolsbee, who falsely claimed in 2010 that Koch Industries does not pay any corporate taxes.

That claim remains on the website, with its text crossed out. Below is an “update” that claims the Kochs “have supported the Ryan budget, which provides tax cuts for the wealthy and protects taxpayer subsidies for big businesses and oil companies.”

The page links to a website from a left-wing nonprofit on the budget introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) this week, on which the Kochs have not taken a position.

Reid’s website goes on to quote from a heavily criticized Bloomberg article that accused Koch Industries of “sidestep[ping]” economic sanctions against Iran.

“The Kochs made improper payments to win contracts in Africa, India and the Middle East,” Reid claims. “And they sold millions of dollars of equipment to Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism.”

After evidence of the said improper payments came to light, Koch Industries commissioned an internal investigation and fired the responsible employees, according to Bloomberg.

Reid has accepted campaign contributions from companies that engage in even more widespread corruption abroad.

According to the Washington Examiner, Reid has accepted more than half a million dollars in contributions since 2009 from employees and political action committees of companies under investigation for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Reid has also taken tens of thousands of dollars from companies that, like Koch, have done business in Iran through foreign subsidiaries, including General Electric ($25,500 in PAC contributions), Hewlett-Packard ($14,500 in PAC contributions), and Sony ($14,500 in PAC contributions).

Reid has also taken $26,000 from Boeing’s PAC. The company is currently trying to reestablish its presence in Iran even though the country remains on the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: harryreid; kochbrothers; nevada; showmethejewelry
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The Koch Brothers really live inside Dingy Harry's head...
1 posted on 04/04/2014 8:59:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
The Koch Brothers really live inside Dingy Harry's head...

Plenty of room.

2 posted on 04/04/2014 9:01:16 AM PDT by Common Sense 101 (Hey libs... If your theories fly in the face of reality, it's not reality that's wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The EXEMPT have made themselves also EXEMPT from
libel and slander.

The EXEMPT are truly our Masters
with an earned Doctorate of Fraud.


3 posted on 04/04/2014 9:01:24 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: SeekAndFind

Harry Reid is obsessed with Koch, pass it on...


4 posted on 04/04/2014 9:02:25 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They must really have nothing when they start attacking private individuals

Reid is such a liar. The media should be ashamed for not calling out this bas****

And demanding his resignation. He’s a national disgrace.


5 posted on 04/04/2014 9:03:48 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Hey 2008, we told you so)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dafuq is wrong with this guy?


6 posted on 04/04/2014 9:04:29 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone with photoshop skills really needs to gen up a picture of Kirk from Wrath of Kahn but screaming “KOOOOOCH!!!!! (bros.)”


7 posted on 04/04/2014 9:06:35 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: SeekAndFind

OH BOY I think Harry need to retired it is sad I think he suffer from Demetria or alzhemir disease

Seriously no joke Fellow Freeper

Maybe just me I feel sorry for Dirty Harry


8 posted on 04/04/2014 9:07:08 AM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

I’m so ignorant of the Kochs, I didn’t even know to pronounce it ‘coke’ until a couple months ago.

But if they wanna spend their $ unseating RATS, that’s mighty fine by me.


9 posted on 04/04/2014 9:07:21 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: SeekAndFind

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.) — Saul Alinski (Rules for Radicals)

Dirty Harry is not insane, though he might appear it, he is following the DNC party line.


10 posted on 04/04/2014 9:07:30 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: SeekAndFind

Ads with a simple read down of the top 10 donors going to democrats ought to contradict the old sob. But the gop wouldn’t ant to offend their soul mate.


11 posted on 04/04/2014 9:07:53 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: SeekAndFind
" Sharron Angle said that Senator Harry Reid’s contradictory statements and peculiar statements raise doubts about Reid’s possible senility and Reid’s mental fitness to continue serving in the Senate.

Sharron Angle made the comments during her radio show on April 3. She is a co-host of the radio show “Conservative Commandos” which broadcasts on WNJC 1360 AM in Philadelphia and is streamed live over the internet.

To hear the Conservative Commandos Radio Show with the clip of Sharron Angle’s analysis and comments can be heard at:

http://www.spreaker.com/page#!/user/ccrshow/conservative-commandos-radio-show-4-3-14 "

12 posted on 04/04/2014 9:08:36 AM PDT by Paladin2
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I’m so ignorant of the Kochs, I didn’t even know to pronounce it ‘coke’ until a couple months ago

Here's a brief introduction:



The wealth of the Brothers COMBINED is more than Bill Gates' or Warren Buffet's.... Here's a liberal ad showing it:


13 posted on 04/04/2014 9:11:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (uestion)
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To: SevenofNine

“...Maybe just me I feel sorry for Dirty Harry...”
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It’s just you.


14 posted on 04/04/2014 9:12:18 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sharon Angle, victim of countless attacks by Democrats since she lost to Dingy Harry in his last campaign, may be painted as “stupid,’ in the Democrats’ war on this woman. However, she is intelligent enough to question whether Reid is rapidly sinking into dementia. His tirades seem to confirm her suspicions.


15 posted on 04/04/2014 9:13:27 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind

Shake down sharptonreid.


16 posted on 04/04/2014 9:15:28 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: txrefugee

I agree with her. Reid is a nutcase.


17 posted on 04/04/2014 9:17:21 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: SevenofNine

I feel anger and sorrow for the dimwhits in Nevada that reelected this doddering old fool


18 posted on 04/04/2014 9:17:44 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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To: lavaroise
The left's KOCH BOYCOTT LIST ( which means we should PATRONIZE these products ):


19 posted on 04/04/2014 9:19:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (uestion)
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To: SeekAndFind

20 posted on 04/04/2014 9:19:49 AM PDT by PLD
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