Koch Corruption: "NO CLIMATE TAX PLEDGE" (from "The Koch Club")
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Alex Brown
11 lis 2014, 23:33:1711.11.2014
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THE "NO CLIMATE TAX PLEDGE":
Climate pledge strategy continues to grow
Eric Holmberg, Alexia Campbell
from "The Koch Club", Investigative Reporting Workshop, 2011
"A quarter of senators and more than one-third of representatives have signed a little-known pledge - backed by the Kochs - not to spend any money to fight climate change without an equivalent amount of tax cuts. They are among 411 current office-holders and politicians, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Virginia Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli II, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, three members of the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Oklahoma schools superintendent, the Idaho state treasurer and three justices of the peace in Arkansas who have signed the "No Climate Tax Pledge." ... The first person to sign the Koch-backed pledge was Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, where Koch Industries is headquartered. Of the 85 conservative Republicans first elected to the House of Representatives in 2010, 76 signed the pledge and, of those, 57 received money from Koch Industries' political action committee. The members of Congress who signed the pledge have also introduced several bills aimed at limiting EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and limiting regulation of the nation's biggest polluters. ..."
Led by Koch Industries and subsidiaries. See "The Koch Club" from Investigative Reporting Workshop (http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/):
Climate pledge strategy continues to grow
Eric Holmberg, Alexia Campbell
from "The Koch Club", Investigative Reporting Workshop, 2011
"A quarter of senators and more than one-third of representatives have signed a little-known pledge - backed by the Kochs - not to spend any money to fight climate change without an equivalent amount of tax cuts. They are among 411 current office-holders and politicians, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Virginia Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli II, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, three members of the Railroad Commission of Texas, the Oklahoma schools superintendent, the Idaho state treasurer and three justices of the peace in Arkansas who have signed the "No Climate Tax Pledge." ... The first person to sign the Koch-backed pledge was Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, where Koch Industries is headquartered. Of the 85 conservative Republicans first elected to the House of Representatives in 2010, 76 signed the pledge and, of those, 57 received money from Koch Industries' political action committee. The members of Congress who signed the pledge have also introduced several bills aimed at limiting EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and limiting regulation of the nation's biggest polluters. ..."
Led by Koch Industries and subsidiaries. See "The Koch Club" from Investigative Reporting Workshop (http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/):
- http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/the_koch_club/story/Koch_millions_spread_influence_through_nonprofits/
- http://smile.amazon.com/Koch-Club-Charles-Lewis-ebook/dp/B00IJJBCME/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415167919&sr=1-2
($0.99)
- http://gis2.uml.edu/~abrown/edu/cci/e+e/koch/TheKochClub.pdf
- http://www.danielschulman.com/about-the-book
- http://smile.amazon.com/Sons-Wichita-Brothers-Americas-Powerful-ebook/dp/B00EXTVS0K/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=
($15)
- http://gis2.uml.edu/~abrown/edu/cci/e+e/koch/kochboys68.jpg
(At MIT, 1968)
Alex Brown
27 sty 2015, 09:45:2527.01.2015
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Koch Brothers’ Budget of $889 Million for 2016 Is on Par With Both Parties’ Spending
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
NY Times JAN. 26, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html
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The political network overseen by the conservative billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch plans to spend close to $900 million on the 2016 campaign, an unparalleled effort by coordinated outside groups to shape a presidential election that is already on track to be the most expensive in history.
The spending goal, revealed Monday at the Kochs’ annual winter donor retreat near Palm Springs, Calif., would allow their political organization to operate at the same financial scale as the Democratic and Republican Parties. It would require a significant financial commitment from the Kochs and roughly 300 other donors they have recruited over the years, and covers both the presidential and congressional races. In the last presidential election, the Republican National Committee and the party’s two congressional campaign committees spent a total of $657 million.
Hundreds of conservative donors recruited by the Kochs gathered over the weekend for three days of issue seminars, strategy sessions and mingling with rising elected officials. These donors represent the largest concentration of political money outside the party establishment, one that has achieved enormous power in Republican circles in recent years.
While almost no Republican Party leaders were invited to the Koch event, it has become a coveted invitation for the party’s rising stars, for whom the gathered billionaires and multimillionaires are a potential source of financing for campaigns and super PACs. Officials said this year’s conference was the largest ever.
At least five potential presidential candidates were invited this year, and four attended, including Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. On Sunday evening, three of them — Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas — took part in a candidate forum on economic issues.
The Kochs are longtime opponents of campaign disclosure laws. Unlike the parties, their network is constructed chiefly of nonprofit groups that are not required to reveal donors. That makes it almost impossible to tell how much of the money is provided by the Kochs — among the wealthiest men in the country — and how much by other donors.
The two brothers and their aides have begun to take steps to relax the strict secrecy that has long surrounded much of their political efforts. After spending the 2012 campaign as the Democrats’ favored punching bags, Charles and David Koch have each granted a series of interviews to explain their views and philosophy. Their privately held firm, Koch Industries, has mounted a soft-focus advertising campaign called “We Are Koch,” featuring the company’s employees.
Last summer, Freedom Partners established the network’s first super PAC, allowing it to run more openly political advertising in the run-up to the 2014 midterm election. The move also required disclosing some of the network’s other donors. Trusts controlled by the Kochs provided about $4 million of the super PAC’s $25 million budget.
This year, Koch aides also provided — for the first time — limited access to the winter conference events and allowed reporters to view live video of the candidate forum on Sunday night.
As the three senators addressed the audience of rich donors — effectively an audition for the 2016 primary — they dismissed a question about whether the wealthy had too much influence in politics. At times they seemed to be addressing an audience of two: the Kochs themselves, now among the country’s most influential conservative power brokers.
Mr. Cruz gave an impassioned defense of his hosts as job creators and the victims of unfair attacks by Democrats, while Mr. Rubio suggested that only liberals supported campaign finance restrictions, so as to empower what he said were their allies in Hollywood and the news media.
[A version of this article appears in print on January 27, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: ’16 Koch Budget Is $889 Million.]
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
NY Times JAN. 26, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/us/politics/kochs-plan-to-spend-900-million-on-2016-campaign.html
(Subscription required beyond 10 views monthly -- was 20 in 2012)
The political network overseen by the conservative billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch plans to spend close to $900 million on the 2016 campaign, an unparalleled effort by coordinated outside groups to shape a presidential election that is already on track to be the most expensive in history.
The spending goal, revealed Monday at the Kochs’ annual winter donor retreat near Palm Springs, Calif., would allow their political organization to operate at the same financial scale as the Democratic and Republican Parties. It would require a significant financial commitment from the Kochs and roughly 300 other donors they have recruited over the years, and covers both the presidential and congressional races. In the last presidential election, the Republican National Committee and the party’s two congressional campaign committees spent a total of $657 million.
Hundreds of conservative donors recruited by the Kochs gathered over the weekend for three days of issue seminars, strategy sessions and mingling with rising elected officials. These donors represent the largest concentration of political money outside the party establishment, one that has achieved enormous power in Republican circles in recent years.
While almost no Republican Party leaders were invited to the Koch event, it has become a coveted invitation for the party’s rising stars, for whom the gathered billionaires and multimillionaires are a potential source of financing for campaigns and super PACs. Officials said this year’s conference was the largest ever.
At least five potential presidential candidates were invited this year, and four attended, including Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. On Sunday evening, three of them — Senators Marco Rubio of Florida, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas — took part in a candidate forum on economic issues.
The Kochs are longtime opponents of campaign disclosure laws. Unlike the parties, their network is constructed chiefly of nonprofit groups that are not required to reveal donors. That makes it almost impossible to tell how much of the money is provided by the Kochs — among the wealthiest men in the country — and how much by other donors.
The two brothers and their aides have begun to take steps to relax the strict secrecy that has long surrounded much of their political efforts. After spending the 2012 campaign as the Democrats’ favored punching bags, Charles and David Koch have each granted a series of interviews to explain their views and philosophy. Their privately held firm, Koch Industries, has mounted a soft-focus advertising campaign called “We Are Koch,” featuring the company’s employees.
Last summer, Freedom Partners established the network’s first super PAC, allowing it to run more openly political advertising in the run-up to the 2014 midterm election. The move also required disclosing some of the network’s other donors. Trusts controlled by the Kochs provided about $4 million of the super PAC’s $25 million budget.
This year, Koch aides also provided — for the first time — limited access to the winter conference events and allowed reporters to view live video of the candidate forum on Sunday night.
As the three senators addressed the audience of rich donors — effectively an audition for the 2016 primary — they dismissed a question about whether the wealthy had too much influence in politics. At times they seemed to be addressing an audience of two: the Kochs themselves, now among the country’s most influential conservative power brokers.
Mr. Cruz gave an impassioned defense of his hosts as job creators and the victims of unfair attacks by Democrats, while Mr. Rubio suggested that only liberals supported campaign finance restrictions, so as to empower what he said were their allies in Hollywood and the news media.
[A version of this article appears in print on January 27, 2015, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: ’16 Koch Budget Is $889 Million.]
See "The Koch Club" from Investigative Reporting Workshop (http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/):
- http://investigativereportingworkshop.org/investigations/the_koch_club/story/Koch_millions_spread_influence_through_nonprofits/
- http://smile.amazon.com/Koch-Club-Charles-Lewis-ebook/dp/B00IJJBCME/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1415167919&sr=1-2 ($0.99)
- http://gis2.uml.edu/~abrown/edu/cci/e+e/koch/TheKochClub.pdf
- http://www.danielschulman.com/about-the-book
- http://smile.amazon.com/Sons-Wichita-Brothers-Americas-Powerful-ebook/dp/B00EXTVS0K/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid= ($15)
- http://gis2.uml.edu/~abrown/edu/cci/e+e/koch/kochboys68.jpg (At MIT, 1968)
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