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Jeff Merkley blames Koch brothers, other big donors for heavy Democratic Senate losses
oregonlive ^ | Nov. 6, 2014 | Jeff Mapes

Posted on 11/06/2014 7:18:40 AM PST by PROCON

Sen. Jeff Merkley, speaking to reporters Wednesday after his big re-election victory, blamed heavy Democratic losses in U.S. Senate races on the flood of big outside spending on campaigns unleashed by the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.

"I think we should be deeply troubled by the results of last night, where an agenda by and for billionaires -- campaigns funded by out-of-state billionaires -- had victories across our country," Merkley said in a press conference at the Portland Hilton Hotel.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: 2014election; 2014midterms; jeffmerkley; oregon
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Oh yeah, it was the evil Koch brothers, not your radical anti-American message.

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1 posted on 11/06/2014 7:18:40 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Of course the dough from Tom Steyer and associates was completely inconsequential....


2 posted on 11/06/2014 7:20:52 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: PROCON

LMAO! The Kochs, huh? Nothing about George Soros, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Jeffrey Katzenberg, or the unions? Really, Jeff?

STFU, boy.


3 posted on 11/06/2014 7:21:34 AM PST by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: PROCON

Will Soros continue to stop the Keystone?


4 posted on 11/06/2014 7:22:40 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: nascarnation; PROCON

Interesting, they forgot to mention their own Devil George Soros, hmmm!!!


5 posted on 11/06/2014 7:23:39 AM PST by danamco (-)
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To: PROCON
Your billionaires bad, our billionaires good.

6 posted on 11/06/2014 7:26:11 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: danamco

Somehow George never makes it into the MSM conversation....


7 posted on 11/06/2014 7:26:22 AM PST by nascarnation (Impeach, Convict, Deport)
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To: danamco

Yep, exactly what I was thinking........but in their warped minds Koch money BAD soros money GOOD.

EFF off aholes.


8 posted on 11/06/2014 7:26:35 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: PROCON

Jeff who ?


9 posted on 11/06/2014 7:26:42 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: PROCON
Or the fact millions from the likes of Tom Steyer, George Soros and the Hollywood Left ended up being a case of "A fool and his money are soon parted"? :-)
10 posted on 11/06/2014 7:28:46 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: PROCON

Ironic coming from the party of the fund raiser in chief.


11 posted on 11/06/2014 7:29:28 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: PROCON

This senator is full on moonbat. It’s Obama liberalism. It’s incompetence at all levels in all departments of the federal government. It’s lie after lie after lie. It’s Obamacare. It’s take home pay. It’s golf. It’s trainloads of illegals. It’s spying on citizens. It’s “workplace violence” in Army barracks and Oklahoma City. It’s vacations. It’s ebola. It’s school lunch. It’s shovel ready. It’s mindless chants of “roads and bridges”. It’s Keystone XL.

It’s Obama.


12 posted on 11/06/2014 7:29:34 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Jeff Merkley blames Koch brothers, other big donors for heavy Democratic Senate losses

Really? Doing the right things (the occasional correct SCOTUS decision, fighting fascists with money) can actually remove bad guys from office? That's good news!

13 posted on 11/06/2014 7:30:19 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: PROCON

“Koch! Koch! Koch!” is the new version of the old “Bush! Bush! Bush!”

Someone needs to put this guy, along with alot of other Dems, in a rubber room. They repeated this delusional lie so much that they are starting to believe it.


14 posted on 11/06/2014 7:30:59 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: PROCON

But liberals eat this stuff up.


15 posted on 11/06/2014 7:31:49 AM PST by dfwgator (The "Fire Muschamp" tagline is back!)
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To: PROCON

Richard Mellon Koch strikes again.


16 posted on 11/06/2014 7:31:51 AM PST by AppyPappy
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Democrats still snorting the Koch.



Go ahead, take another hit. You know you wanna!
17 posted on 11/06/2014 7:32:28 AM PST by VanDeKoik
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Oh yeah, it was the evil Koch brothers, not your radical anti-American message.

Ignoring all of the scandals and plenty of reasons to vote the bums out, 0bama and his merry band of Marxists lost because they chose not to defend the administration's record of the last six years. (i.e. they COULDN’T)

• On foreign policy, no democrat chorus seconded Obama's 2013 claim that this chaotic period in world affairs has been the most stable time in recent memory.
• No democrat senator insisted that Obama's Russian reset had calmed Vladimir Putin.
• democrats did not argue that Obama had rightly distanced the U.S. from Israel.
• No democrats pointed to the Middle East -- the Iranian bomb-making efforts, the civil war in Syria, the collapse of post-surge Iraq, the rise of the Islamic State -- to confirm Obama's diagnosis that these were mostly manageable problems?
• No democrat candidates ran on their own prior overwhelming support for the Affordable Care Act, which passed without a single Republican vote?
• No democRAT stated that at some future date, Obamacare, as promised, really would lower premiums and deductibles, reduce the deficit, expand coverage, and ensure that people could keep existing plans and doctors?
• No democrat made the re-election argument that stimulatory policies of adding $7 trillion in new debt, maintaining continual near zero-interest rates and approving a $1 trillion stimulus had led to a robust recovery after the end of the recession in mid-2009?
• No democrat claimed positive changes in federal agencies and bigger government -- at least those other than the IRS, NSA, ICE, GSA, VA, NASA, the Justice Department and the Secret Service?
• If democrats didn't wish to run on their party's past record, why didn't they promise to fulfill Obama's incomplete agenda that was short-circuited by the loss of the House in 2010? In 2009, the democrat House had voted to pass a cap-and-trade bill under Obama's direction, but it was never passed by the Senate. Why didn't democrat candidates vow that they would see it through in 2015? Or promise to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline for good? Or vow to keep with the Obama agenda of curbing new federal leases for gas and oil exploration?
• Under Obama, an effectively open border, coupled with de facto amnesties, has led to massive new influxes of foreign citizens at the southern border. Why didn't democrat promise to continue Obama's laissez-faire immigration policy?
• Couldn't the Democrats have pointed to Obama's handling of the Ebola crisis, lauding his choice of Washington, D.C., fixer Ron Klain as a medically savvy, hands-on Ebola czar? Or to the president's dynamic air war against the Islamic State?

Democrats understandably chose to ignore both what they had voted for in the past and what they were likely to support in the future.


18 posted on 11/06/2014 7:34:26 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Obama is the biggest Republican uniter ever, thank you Fubar Obama, great job.


19 posted on 11/06/2014 7:35:02 AM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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Michelle Malkin and Dave Bossie went on Megyn Kelly to discuss their new film "Rocky Mountain Heist," about how a small group of wealthy liberals have overtaken Colorado. Malkin cited "The Democracy Alliance" at the heart of the fraud.

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......hopey-changey-true-believer types harbored dreams that golf-prone Obama's ceaseless fundraising was going to save-the-day... In fact, Obama's obsessive non-stop fund raising among the smug/stupid Democrat elite was beginning to look sinister. Even the name of his new Ebola czar--MIA Ron Klain-- mysteriously disappeared from the web site of Democrats' shady mega-funder "The Democracy Alliance".

Could this be a WH/Democrat Ponzi scheme in progress?

While they bash Wall Street publicly, leaders of the Democrats' mega-funder "The Democracy Alliance" have quietly recruited venture capitalists, bankers and hedge fund moguls -- along with union bosses and red-diaper trust fund babies -- to fund their takeover goals. ....$230,000 public school union dues go to the Democrats' "Democracy Alliance."

"The Democracy Alliance" does not itself raise and spend a great deal of money. Rather, being a partner in the Alliance requires one to contribute large amounts to other left-wing groups. The Alliance evaluates left-wing organizations on various criteria, and makes recommendations to its members as to where they should put their money. Currently, the Alliance lists 21 groups in its “Aligned Network”:

<><> America Votes, American Constitution Society, Black Civic Engagement Fund, Brennan Center, Catalyst, Center for American Progress, Center for Community Change, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Common Purpose Project, Fund for the Republic, Latino Engagement Fund, Media Matters for America, New Media Ventures, New Organizing Institute, Organizing For Action, Progressive Majority, Progress Now, State Engagement Initiative, State Voices, Women’s Equality Center and Youth Engagement Fund.

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T/D/A just purged the name of Obama's Ebola Czar, Ron Klain, off its website--Klain is connected to the left-wing "The Third Way."

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The most interesting of the T/D/A documents that have come to light is the one that contains T/D/A’s “investment recommendations” for 2014. Not only does it list the recommended organizations, but it rates each organization in several categories, sets out the group’s budget for 2014, and shows how much of that budget should be contributed by the 100 members of the "Democracy Alliance." One category in which T/D/A rates the organizations is “Collaboration,” as T/D/A believes that all left-wing groups should coordinate their activities for maximum political impact.

Opportunistic pols like Harry Reid have denounced Charles and David Koch, and others, who contribute to conservative causes as “shadowy,” “secretive” people who dare infest politics with “dark money.”

In that context, it is worth noting that most of the groups to which The Democracy Alliance, and its elite liberal members, contribute are 501(c)(4)s that do not disclose their donors.

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ANALYSIS Buncha sap-happy Dummy/dopes are feeding the Democrats' Democracy Alliance lotsa money---thinking its safe.....going to a "good thing."

That's exactly how Madoff operated. Money-laundering, tax evasion was part of the Madoff mix---helping investors, foundations, and tax-exempts break the law in a seemingly legal way.

Madoff helped himself to the untraceable money in the process.....and got himself in trouble. When he went to jail for 125 years, investigators found Ponzi King Madoff had stashed billions offshore---into a labyrinth of financial entities.

COLLUSION AND CONSPIRACIES GALORE Some $8.9 billion was funneled to Madoff through a dozen so-called feeder funds based in Europe, the Caribbean and Central America......a labyrinth of hedge funds, management companies and service providers that, to unsuspecting outsiders, seemed to compose a formidable system of checks and balances.

But the purpose of this complex financial architecture was just the opposite: the feeder funds provided different modes for directing money to Madoff in order to avoid scrutiny.

Dummycrats apparently took notes.

20 posted on 11/06/2014 7:35:41 AM PST by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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