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CousinIT

(9,151 posts)
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 07:43 PM Oct 2021

Koch Industries Is Top Corporate Donor to Reps Who Will Try to Overturn Democracy

https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2020/12/29/koch-industries-is-top-corporate-donor-to-reps-who-will-try-to-overturn-democracy/

Dozens of corporate PACs have bankrolled the campaigns of Republican representatives who will do President Donald Trump’s bidding and try to overturn democracy in early January, a CMD review of campaign finance data has found. Koch Industries is the top corporate PAC donor, and the National Association of Realtors is the top trade association PAC contributor, to these right-wing politicians.

Trump lost the Electoral College 306-232 to Joe Biden, who earned over seven million more votes than his opponent. The results became official on December 14, when the Electoral College met to ratify the results. Trump’s fringe legal team has lost more than 50 frivolous lawsuits alleging nonexistent voter fraud, often suffering embarrassing defeats and stern reprimands from judges. Now Trump and the Republican National Committee face a lawsuit for conspiring to violate the rights of Black voters with their constant, completely unfounded efforts to overturn or undermine the election results in heavily Black areas such as Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Atlanta.

Nonetheless, a coterie of some of the most extreme right-wingers in Congress met with Trump on Dec. 21 to plan one final attempted coup. On January 6, Congress will convene in a joint session to certify the Electoral College votes, the very last step in the presidential election process. Members of the House Freedom Caucus—Andy Biggs (AZ), Mo Brooks (AL), Matt Gaetz (FL) Louie Gohmert (TX), Jody Hice (GA), Jim Jordan (OH), and Scott Perry (PA)—were reportedly at the meeting and plan to challenge the Electoral College electors.

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Topping the list of single company PACs is the PAC of Koch Industries, the fossil fuel conglomerate owned and led by billionaire GOP megadonor Charles Koch. In 2020, Koch PAC donated $40,000 to the campaigns of five Republicans who met with Trump about the coup attempt—including the maximum allowed contribution amounts in the primary and general elections to Biggs, Hice, and Jordan. Altogether, Koch PAC has given $198,500 to the campaigns of seven coup promoters over their political careers, the most of any single company PAC.

Koch PAC Gives Big to Coup Proponents

The Koch Industries PAC is the biggest contributor of all single company PACs to GOP representatives who will challenge the Electoral College electors on Jan. 6, 2021.

Recipient State 2018 2020 Career
Louie Gohmert Texas $7,500 $50,500
Jim Jordan Ohio $10,000 $10,000 $50,000
Scott Perry Pennsylvania $10,000 $5,000 $36,000
Andy Biggs Arizona $10,000 $10,000 $25,000
Jody Hice Georgia $7,500 $10,000 $22,000
Ted Budd North Carolina $10,000 $10,000
Marjorie Greene Georgia $5,000 $5,000
TOTAL $55,000 $40,000 $198,500
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Koch Industries Is Top Corporate Donor to Reps Who Will Try to Overturn Democracy (Original Post) CousinIT Oct 2021 OP
Who needs Putin, we have our own oligarchs undermining our democracy. jalan48 Oct 2021 #1
And... no one is surprised luv2fly Oct 2021 #2
Daddy Koch made the family fortune multigraincracker Oct 2021 #3
He worked for both Hitler and Stalin. He didn't like Stalin but he loved Hitler. Yoyoyo77 Oct 2021 #6
Tax the mutha. Baitball Blogger Oct 2021 #4
The GQP would be nowhere without sociopathic billionaire octogenarians & nonagenarians. maxsolomon Oct 2021 #5
Kick dalton99a Oct 2021 #7
Petrodollars and Toilet paper moguls. Kid Berwyn Oct 2021 #8

Yoyoyo77

(267 posts)
6. He worked for both Hitler and Stalin. He didn't like Stalin but he loved Hitler.
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 09:53 PM
Oct 2021

I think the difference was that Hitler let the crews he worked with alone. Stalin's gov. locked up some of the Russian engineers he was working with. Pretty typical that he pays attention to what affects him personally but not what doesn't.

maxsolomon

(32,983 posts)
5. The GQP would be nowhere without sociopathic billionaire octogenarians & nonagenarians.
Sun Oct 3, 2021, 09:03 PM
Oct 2021

It's a shame the rich can afford such good healthcare.

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