Koch Industries gave funding to the DLC and served on its Executive Council

[grahamhgreen]

Dated (8/25/2010), but good to remember when you see some of the far right leaning debaters hitting these pages. In my view, there are and will always be people pushing the Republican Agenda at DU and in our party:

And for $25,000, 28 giant companies found their way onto the DLC’s executive council, including Aetna, AT&T;, American Airlines, AIG, BellSouth, Chevron, DuPont, Enron, IBM, Merck and Company, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Texaco, and Verizon Communications. Few, if any, of these corporations would be seen as leaning Democratic, of course, but here and there are some real surprises. One member of the DLC’s executive council is none other than Koch Industries, the privately held, Kansas-based oil company whose namesake family members are avatars of the far right, having helped to found archconservative institutions like the Cato Institute and Citizens for a Sound Economy. Not only that, but two Koch executives, Richard Fink and Robert P. Hall III, are listed as members of the board of trustees and the event committee, respectively–meaning that they gave significantly more than $25,000.

The DLC board of trustees is an elite body whose membership is reserved for major donors, and many of the trustees are financial wheeler-dealers who run investment companies and capital management firms–though senior executives from a handful of corporations, such as Koch, Aetna, and Coca-Cola, are included.

I added the emphasis.

Fitting, isn’t it? The entity that tries to undermine the progressive agenda from within the Democratic Party was getting funding from the guys who are trying to destroy the Democratic Party from the outside.

Just a side note: The DLC’s long-time CEO, Bruce Reed, is now the Executive Director of the Obama administration’s Debt Commission, a.k.a. the Cat Food Commission.

http://americablog.com/2010/08/koch-industries-gave-funding-to-the-dlc-and-served-on-its-executive-council.html

[villager]

1. But, but, but... "two" parties! "Choice" in every election!

Who could be freer than us!?

[djean111]

2. Exactly.

"Dated, but good to remember when you see some of the far right leaning debaters hitting these pages. In my view, there are and will always be people pushing the Republican Agenda at DU and in our party"

Obvious as hell. Especially the ones who accuse Progressives of being Rand Paul admirers or whatever.

Here's the thing - I see admonishments that we HAVE to vote for ALL D's, even if the seem like big flaming R's - because the important thing is to win. But after we win - we have DINOs. It was very illuminating, seeing the Third Way guys come right out and say Elizabeth Warren was out of hand - for being so progressive.
I feel like the Democrats at voter level are being herded right down the chute into a fauxGOP party, with lots of distracting bullshit being blown about.

[onehandle]

3. Good thing that the DLC doesn't exist anymore. nt

[Scuba]

5. Snort.

[bvar22]

10. LOL.

Yep. The DLC just vanished.

[Laelth]

4. Lovely. (sarcasm) k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[Egalitarian Thug]

6. When only two teams are allowed to play the game, the sure way

to win is to just buy both of them. Heads, they win. Tails, we lose.

At some point we will either, have to wake up and quit being suckers, or die knowing we let it happen because it was easier.

[Zorra]

7. For anyone who doesn't know: The DLC is now known as the Third Way. nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

8. Sounds like the Koches singlehandedly are managing the right wing extremist groups

That's one more reason to stop allowing the mega-rich to suck up the country's wealth. (In addition to all the other reasons).

[Le Taz Hot]

9. To the Greatest Page.

And I think we need to keep this kicked for a LOOOONG time and bring it back when Hillary "officially" announces she's running for office. Again.

[bvar22]

12. You mean THIS HIllary is running for President??!!!

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The DLC New Team
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(Screen Capped from the DLC Website)

[Le Taz Hot]

13. Yeah, that's the one.

Though I'm told by her ardent supporters that she's not a candidate and quite saying she is!!!111!111!

[bvar22]

14. Isn't she the one who was the ChairPerson for the DLC "American Dream Initiative"...

...that essentially advocated Privatizing Every-F**king-Thing,
and letting the Invisible Hand protect American Workers & Consumers?

Sure looks like the same Hillary.

[Le Taz Hot]

15. I don't know about you but I'm just

all a-twitter about the 2016 presidential elections when our choices will be Hillary Clinton v. Jeb Bush or as I will be calling it, "The Battle of the Corporate Stooges." Don't 'cha just love Democracy? U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

[Rex]

18. Well now, looks like I won't be rooting for her in the primaries.

Last thing we need is ANOTHER DLC corporate mouthpiece to bow down to the mega conglomerates in submission.

[xchrom]

11. the koch's are playing a very long game. 'centrists' in the dem party

should stop playing with them.

they won't.

[Rex]

17. This is why it is easy to ignore certain types around here.

Corporate DINOS are so easy to spot on DU.