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Now we know what this latest attempt to kill their constituents is about.
NB: this article is from June. It's coming to the fore again for obvious reasons.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/26/koch-network-piggy-banks-closed-republicans-healthcare-tax-reform
At a weekend donor retreat attended by at least 18 elected officials, the Koch brothers warned that time is running out to push their agenda, most notably healthcare and tax reform, through Congress.
One Texas-based donor warned Republican lawmakers that his Dallas piggy bank was now closed, until he saw legislative progress.
Get Obamacare repealed and replaced, get tax reform passed, said Doug Deason. Get it done and well open it back up.
There was a sense of deep frustration from conservative officials and donors alike, decrying the pace of progress in Washington with Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress and the White House for the first time in a decade.
Deason has already informed a handful of congressional Republicans that the Dallas piggy bank is closed until he sees more action. He said he was recently approached by congressmen Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio about hosting a fundraiser.
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)When I watch Vietnam on PBS and hear their name it makes me so angry. They are not kind and benevolent with their money.
lindysalsagal
(20,440 posts)stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)on another thread. The screws are obviously being turned here.
Grimly, strikingly absent all along have been almost all media reports about who's controlling most factions of the GOP. And apparently much of the MSM, whether through fright or by other means. To watch all TV and cable networks and read most newspapers, people could be forgiven for thinking Republican congressmen were putting their jobs on the line by trying to repeal a program popular with a large majority of Americans strictly out of...principle?
mcar
(42,208 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)severe than realized. Just like Russia.
DK504
(3,847 posts)haveahart
(905 posts)Citizen's United. We ought to start a movement to find out who gets their money from Koch and the Mercers and target everyone of them for embarrassment and defeat. There is more than one way to skin a rat!
Congress critters always complain about how they have to make telephone calls for hours every day to raise money. It looks like they can solve that problem, the problem with the health care debacle, and get back to working for the good of the voters all at one time.
Get money out of politics.
LyndaG
(683 posts)Guess it didn't make him sensitive to the fact that others need healthcare to survive.