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Tea Party movement: Billionaire Koch brothers who helped it grow (Tea Party = Big Oil)
guardian.co.uk ^
| Oct. 13, 2010
| Suzanne Goldenberg
Posted on 10/14/2010 5:02:09 PM PDT by PROCON
Industrialists who own private company with annual revenues of £62bn have channelled millions of dollars to rightwing causes It likes to present itself as a grassroots insurgency made up of hundreds of local groups intent on toppling the Washington elite.
But the Tea Party movement, which is threatening to cause an upset in next month's midterm elections, would not be where it is today without the backing of that most traditional of US political supporters Big Oil.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: ab32; afp; birch; ca2010; cainitiatives; charleskoch; davidkoch; jbs; koch; kochbrothers; kochindustries; prop23; teaparty
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To: PROCON
From the article:
"AFP, in turn, has spun off other organisations such as November is Coming, Hands Off My Healthcare, and the Institute of Liberty, which are buying up television ads and holding rallies across the country in an attempt to defeat Democrats."Oh please...like the Left doesn't have its own deep pockets contributors here and abroad funneling huge amounts of cash to Democrats and Dem-supporting groups. The more the Left whines about what the Right is doing, the more certainty you can have that they are doing it times three.
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:31:03 PM PDT
by
Wolfstar
To: PROCON
Liberals say some of the craziest things!
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:33:36 PM PDT
by
vigilante2
(Reelect Nobody)
To: PROCON
Yeah, I would have never joined up with that Tea Party movement if it weren’t for the Koch brothers. Except I never heard of the Koch brothers.
I happened to be watching CNBC live when Rick Santelli went on his famous rant, to which I heartily hooray-ed. That was it until I saw a vid on FR of a bunch of people marching with signs behind a couple of people wearing colonial garb, playing a flute, with one holding a bale of — what was it? — oh, tea to throw into a local body of water.
Never looked back. Never heard of the Koch brothers.
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:35:30 PM PDT
by
fightinJAG
(Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
To: cripplecreek
Wheres my check?Yeah. After being unemployed for 18 months in Obama's economy, I finally got a security guard job paying $9.00 an hour. That's just one dollar an hour above minimum wage here in California. So I sure could use some of that "evil" Koch money.
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:35:54 PM PDT
by
Wolfstar
To: PROCON
Duped again....when will I learn?
Joining the radical former middle class....
Headed for the hills with my black powder....
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:42:36 PM PDT
by
pointsal
To: EGPWS
Evil tea parties, they should be outlawed.
Look for that to be his next EO, along with tighter control of the Internet. That would sae him up for the 2012 presidential cycle.
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:50:08 PM PDT
by
JSteff
((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
I'm fed up with gutless cowards who write anything and everything without a working email address or having the replies enabled on their article posting websites.
Based on the standard email format for Array, the email address may be suzanne.goldenberg@guardian.co.uk
Otherwise there is NO KNOWN email address nor method to directly contact this "journalist" and provide any sort of feedback regarding anything she writes.
By choosing to write without any way of providing feedback about her articles, she, along with almost all other LEFTist "journalists" is copying the same methods of anonymously posting to some blog or web-page without any form of feedback.
IMO, if an author doesn't have the guts to stand behind what they write or to provide any method of feedback about what they write, their articles should not be distributed or at the very least, the posted articles should provide a CLEAR DISCLAIMER right up front.
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:51:09 PM PDT
by
pyx
(Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
To: cripplecreek
My check been goin to hookers and booze.
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:57:37 PM PDT
by
Nooseman
(mutt)
To: Right Cal Gal
“shed have thousands of TEA Party people asking her just HOW we are supposedly funded.”
And, thousands of times, she would say “Your check is in the mail.”
We live in wondrous times. First Obama will send everyone checks, now mysterious and reclusive billionaires will send TEA Party members checks.
Brother, does you believe!
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posted on
10/14/2010 5:59:32 PM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
To: PROCON
The Koch brothers if I’m not mistaken got their feet wet in the oil business around Wichita, KS. Their interests are international and huge.
One of them (David?, I’d have to google it) was at a high school football game in the Wichita area in the late 80’s when a gang-related drive-by occurred. He then donated funds to form the Koch (Crime) Commission here in KS that served for a while as an ad hoc advisory board to the state to help get a handle on crime and gang issues. Some quasi-government weasel-di_ks kind of took the lead with the project (there are plenty of them here), but the Koch’s intent and willingness to put their money into community issues appears genuine.
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posted on
10/14/2010 6:04:43 PM PDT
by
One Name
To: Nooseman
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posted on
10/14/2010 6:27:14 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: PROCON
feh...
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posted on
10/14/2010 6:41:29 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: PROCON
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posted on
10/14/2010 6:51:45 PM PDT
by
mirkwood
(Paul LePage for governor)
To: fightinJAG
Never heard of the Koch brothers.Perhaps not, but you've surely seen a few of their many products:
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posted on
10/14/2010 7:28:53 PM PDT
by
FreeKeys
(COPY EVERYTHING IN THE BOX ON MY PROFILE PAGE AND SEND IT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK !!)
To: FreeKeys
That’s it! It was the quilted toilet paper that turned me into a mind-numbed Tea Party robot!
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posted on
10/14/2010 7:46:26 PM PDT
by
fightinJAG
(Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
To: fightinJAG
Thats it! It was the quilted toilet paper that turned me into a mind-numbed Tea Party robot!No doubt! But, of course, it's becuz LIBRULS gotta be oh, so careful of toilet paper brainwashing, ya know. They know toilet paper's what comes closest to their brains, such as they have.
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posted on
10/14/2010 7:59:39 PM PDT
by
FreeKeys
(COPY EVERYTHING IN THE BOX ON MY PROFILE PAGE AND SEND IT TO EVERYONE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK !!)
To: PROCON
Liberals are too lazy to fund their own movements (with the exceptions of Stalinists like Soros), so they try to suppress conservative funding instead.
This isn’t a democratic election. This is a fight for our survival, a fight for us to have the right to protest taxation and government expenditures, a fight for us to manage our money however we want, a fight for us to power our homes and our automobiles how we want. Germany elected people who made sure that Nazism would never rise from its burned ashes again; we need to elect people who will make sure that liberalism will never torment this country again. To advocate for any less is to advocate serfdom for your future children.
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posted on
10/14/2010 8:11:28 PM PDT
by
Objective Scrutator
(Liberals are lazy, and objectively pro-lazy.)
To: Objective Scrutator
To advocate for any less is to advocate serfdom for your future childrenWell put my FRiend and I couldn't agree more!
Let's get fired up and send the dims home in November!
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posted on
10/14/2010 8:20:00 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(19 More Days Until Independence Day, Woo-Hoo!!)
To: cripplecreek
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posted on
10/14/2010 8:42:45 PM PDT
by
Nooseman
(mutt)
To: PROCON
WOW!!!
Seems we’ve found OUR George Soros!!!!!!
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posted on
10/14/2010 9:41:11 PM PDT
by
Mortrey
(Impeach President Soros)
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