For Those of You Who Hate the Koch Brothers

[longknife]

So you think the Tea Party is in their pocket. And they are the biggest spenders trying to buy political favors.

Oh yeah!

Open Secrets Shows Koch Campaign Money Dwarfed by Dozens of Other Groups, Misclassifies Many As 'On the Fence'

By Tom Blumer | February 17, 2014

The web site OpenSecrets.org has done a great deal of useful work. Especially helpful are its lists of high-dollar political campaign donor organizations.

The web site's 1989-2014 and 2012-specific lists, to name just two, demonstrate that the hyperventilating on the left and in the establishment press about the eeeevil Koch Brothers is completely out of line:

Read more: Open Secrets Shows Koch Campaign Money Dwarfed by Dozens of Other Groups, Misclassifies Many As 'On the Fence' | NewsBusters

Hey! There's something funny her. The Koch Brothers rank 59th in the past 25 years and 77th in 2012!!! How can this be?

 

[rightwinger]

There are donations made in your own name and anonymous donations funneled through PACs

Koch brothers and Americans for Prosperity funnel untold millions to push their agenda

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/14/2944811/americans-prosperity-122-million/

 

[hazlnut]

So you think the Tea Party is in their pocket. And they are the biggest spenders trying to buy political favors.

Oh yeah!

Open Secrets Shows Koch Campaign Money Dwarfed by Dozens of Other Groups, Misclassifies Many As 'On the Fence'

By Tom Blumer | February 17, 2014

The web site OpenSecrets.org has done a great deal of useful work. Especially helpful are its lists of high-dollar political campaign donor organizations.

The web site's 1989-2014 and 2012-specific lists, to name just two, demonstrate that the hyperventilating on the left and in the establishment press about the eeeevil Koch Brothers is completely out of line:

Read more: Open Secrets Shows Koch Campaign Money Dwarfed by Dozens of Other Groups, Misclassifies Many As 'On the Fence' | NewsBusters

Hey! There's something funny her. The Koch Brothers rank 59th in the past 25 years and 77th in 2012!!! How can this be?

This is fucking retarded, the Koch bros didn't get super political until the Black man got in the white house.

Look at the last 5 years and get back to us.

 

[Pennywise]

There are donations made in your own name and anonymous donations funneled through PACs

Koch brothers and Prosperity for Amerca funnel untold millions to push their agenda

I have to ask, do you honestly believe it's any different with leftists? If you do, you are flat out delusional and so partisanly blind that you need to reset your head.

 

[ClosedCaption]

There are donations made in your own name and anonymous donations funneled through PACs

Koch brothers and Prosperity for Amerca funnel untold millions to push their agenda

They forgot about that in all the other threads...all the other times...over and over...Contin...aw they're lying again. Its no other explanation

 

[rightwinger]

Americans for Prosperity (Koch political PAC) has spent 122 million

Where is that on the list?

 

[RandomVariable]

Link actually goes to this site who has no link to where they got the graphs.

 

[rightwinger]

There are donations made in your own name and anonymous donations funneled through PACs

Koch brothers and Prosperity for Amerca funnel untold millions to push their agenda

I have to ask, do you honestly believe it's any different with leftists? If you do, you are flat out delusional and so partisanly blind that you need to reset your head.

I didn't try to post this deceptive thread about the influence of the Koch brothers

 

[RandallFlagg]

Americans for Prosperity (Koch political PAC) has spent 122 million

Where is that on the list?

Where's your buddy George Soros??

 

[Vox]

Link actually goes to this site who has no link to where they got the graphs.

and?

I understand that you know your leftard sites always LIE and therefore you project on others your own faults.

Care to prove it first and then project your own sins?

 

[RandomVariable]

The actual page is here: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php

If one adds Koch Industries, $18,083,948, and Club for Growth, $17,271,352 one gets:
$35,355,300 which moves it to #15, not in the top ten but still a lot of money behind a singular purpose.

 

[RandomVariable]

Link actually goes to this site who has no link to where they got the graphs.

and?

I understand that you know your leftard sites always LIE and therefore you project on others your own faults.

Care to prove it first and then project your own sins?

 

[RandomVariable]

Americans for Prosperity (Koch political PAC) has spent 122 million

Where is that on the list?

Not on the list but they did spend $36,352,928 in 2012 alone. Add that to the 35,355,300 and one gets $71 million. That total puts this group of three in second place and that is only a single year for Americans for Prosperity. Kind of sinks that whole, "Oh, we are getting so outspent" theory.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000024046&cycle=2012

 

[rightwinger]

Americans for Prosperity (Koch political PAC) has spent 122 million

Where is that on the list?

Where's your buddy George Soros??

I don't seem to remember starting a thread about how little Soros actually contributes

 

[RandomVariable]

Wow, this is a great thread.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/12/1-in-4-dark-money-dollars-in-2012-c.html
At Least 1 in 4 Dark Money Dollars in 2012 Had Koch Links

With most of the annual tax filings for nondisclosing nonprofits now in, it's clear that no other conservative or liberal dark money network matched, in combined size and complexity, the constellation of Koch-linked groups that churned hundreds of millions of dollars into elections around the country last year.

 

[Moonglow]

Stalin loved Mr. Kock setting up fracking oil fields in the USSR.

 

[rightwinger]

There are donations made in your own name and anonymous donations funneled through PACs

Koch brothers and Prosperity for Amerca funnel untold millions to push their agenda

They forgot about that in all the other threads...all the other times...over and over...Contin...aw they're lying again. Its no other explanation

This is what? Fourth or fifth thread crowing about how little the Koch brothers actually contribute?

Think someone is feeding them their material?

Could it be the Koch brothers?

 

[kiwiman127]

Link actually goes to this site who has no link to where they got the graphs.

and?

I understand that you know your leftard sites always LIE and therefore you project on others your own faults.

Care to prove it first and then project your own sins?

And? I am glad you asked.
When a lefties uses a left leaning resource, righties jump all over that poster. When a rightie uses a tight leaning resource lefties jump all over that poster.
It's just the way things go here and rightfully so. NOW, if people who use legitimate non-partisan resources we wouldn't have this back and forth. Not only that, we'd be rid of some of the dumbest threads ever posted since the wheel was invented.
How's that for an answer Vox?

 

[Disir]

The Tea Party is an astroturf movement TEA Party: Tobacco Everywhere Always | DeSmogBlog

Don't like that link? Go straight to the source. ?To quarterback behind the scenes, third-party efforts?: the tobacco industry and the Tea Party -- Fallin et al. -- Tobacco Control

A national conservative network (whose backers include the Koch brothers, event sponsors include Facebook, and alumni include Ted Cruz) misrepresented its agenda and activities, and reaped the benefits of mainstream respectability and nonprofit status — while coordinating across states to push a hard-right agenda and enrich its corporate backers — a new report alleges.

Specifically, the report by the Center for Media and Democracy focuses on the State Policy Network, a little-known network. “What we uncovered through our investigation is that SPN along with its affiliates amount to $83 million just flooding into the states to push and promote this agenda …,” CMD director Lisa Graves told reporters on a Wednesday call. “And that money is on the rise.” The paper was released Wednesday along with a set of state-level reports on SPN affiliates, authored by affiliates of the progressive network ProgressNow.

The CMD report accuses SPN affiliates of mounting “coordinated efforts to push their agenda, often using the same cookie-cutter research and reports, all while claiming to be independent and creating state-focused solutions …” It charges that, “Although SPN think tanks are registered as educational nonprofits, several appear to orchestrate extensive lobbying and political operations to peddle their legislative agenda to state legislators, despite the IRS’ regulations on nonprofit political and lobbying activities.”

Asked about the CMD report, SPN emailed a statement from its president, Tracie Sharp, saying, “Because we are legally and practically organized as a service organization (not as a franchise), each of the 64 state-based think tanks is fiercely independent, choosing to manage their staff, pick their own research topics and educate the public on those issues they deem most appropriate for their state.” But Sharp said each of those 64 “rallies around a common belief: the power of free markets and free people to create a healthy, prosperous society.”

Ted Cruz and Koch brothers embroiled in shadowy Tea Party scheme - Salon.com

Not familiar with SPN?

The State Policy Network (SPN) has franchised, funded, and fostered a growing number of “mini Heritage Foundations” at the state level since the early 1990s.[1] SPN is a web of right-wing “think tanks” in every state across the country. It is an $83 million right-wing empire as of the 2011 funding documents from SPN itself and each of its state "think tank" members. Although SPN's member organizations claim to be nonpartisan and independent, the Center for Media and Democracy's in-depth investigation, "EXPOSED: The State Policy Network -- The Powerful Right-Wing Network Helping to Hijack State Politics and Government," reveals that SPN and its member think tanks are major drivers of the right-wing, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-backed corporate agenda in state houses nationwide, with deep ties to the Koch brothers and the national right-wing network of funders.[2]

SPN describes itself as a network and service organization for the "state-based free market think tank movement," and its stated mission is "to provide strategic assistance to independent research organizations devoted to discovering and developing market-oriented solutions to state and local public policy issues."[3] It was founded in November 1991[4] and incorporated in March of 1992.[5]

State Policy Network - SourceWatch

Shall I go on?

 

[Harry Dresden]

There are donations made in your own name and anonymous donations funneled through PACs

Koch brothers and Prosperity for Amerca funnel untold millions to push their agenda

I have to ask, do you honestly believe it's any different with leftists? If you do, you are flat out delusional and so partisanly blind that you need to reset your head.

I didn't try to post this deceptive thread about the influence of the Koch brothers

you did not answer his question either....