Posted on 11/21/2015 3:35:05 PM PST by Libloather
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday called for Republicans to abandon the corrupting influence of the Koch brothers and other wealthy energy magnates.
"This is a party that rejects science and refuses to understand that climate change is real," he said of GOP during the annual Blue Jamboree in North Charleston, S.C.
"I understand if you stand up to the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry, that you'll lose your campaign contributions," the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate added.
"[Climate change] is already causing devastating problems all over this world. To hell with the fossil fuel industry. Worry more about your children and your grandchildren than your campaign contributions."
Sanders linked wealthy energy interests with overall corporate power, arguing that Wall Street must improve society.
"When Wall Street went broke, they came begging to Congress for help. Now it's Wall Street's turn to bail out the middle class of this country," he said.
"While people are working so hard, what is going on all is that almost all of the income and wealth that is being created is going to the top 1 percent," Sanders continued. "That is not what America is about."
The Koch brothers' vast donor network spent $129 million during the 2014 election cycle, according to an IRS filing released Tuesday.
That amount is more than five times the $22.3 million David and Charles Koch spent in 2013, the IRS filing said.
The siblings' political network has previously committed $889 million towards conservative and libertarian principles during the 2016 presidential election.
Charles Koch has suggested about $250 million of that amount is for defeating Democrats during next year's White House and Congressional races.
Sanders has long decried the influence the Kochs and other energy moguls play in working against tackling climate change.
"When you have people like the Koch brothers and ExxonMobil today spending huge amounts of money trying to deny that reality, it slows up the entire world from aggressively addressing what is an international crisis," he said late last month. "This is serious stuff."
Saaaaayyyyy isn’t that Soros stage left of the occupier?
The old man is an american enemy
No more electric-powered public address either. And no video broadcasts.
If it was good enough for Jesus, it's surely good enough for Bernie...
Oil/natgas/coal are selling super cheap and will stay this way for a while. There is ZERO reason for solar and wind investment in such an economic environment, So the libs try to gin up global warming hysteria which was such a failure they renamed it climate change
He's a complete idiot.
The energy industry is one of the industries that turned us into a super power. Liberals have hated it for the longest time. What’s amazing is how their rhetoric just continues to propagate while our nation suffers.
“To hell with the modern standard of living and back to the dark ages.” Well, that’s one way to decrease the ongoing U.S. illegal immigration problem, EVENTUALLY!
Bern,, Your buddies ISIS is in the Oil Business
FUBS!! Socialist/fascist traitior!
Sure do look like ‘im.
Says the fossil...
Maybe you'll get your eco-warrior merit badge from the new Thcoutmathter.
Well things started cooling a little, so they just couldn't fudge the data with all those blizzards going on.
Besides, who could possible argue that the climate doesn't change? It is a rhetorical trap.
Whether man has diddley-squat to do with it is a different issue.
Oh, well. Back to Whale oil!
Climate change is real. It warms up and and then it cools down Bernie. :-)
Dude,I live in Buffalo,where are all these blizzards at?
Does anyone know from a reliable source if the 1% holds 99% of the total US wealth? I don’t and only have heard it from the various libs and Occupy types.
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