Right-wing activist David Koch dead at 79: report
Source: The Raw Story
Right-wing activist David Koch dead at 79: report
Published 9 mins ago on August 23, 2019 By Travis Gettys
David Koch, the billionaire industrialist and conservative activist, has reportedly died.
Sources close to the family confirmed the 79-year-old Koch, who retired from the privately owned Koch Industries last year, passed away, according to New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer.
Koch took over as president of Koch Engineering in 1979, and became co-owner of Koch Industries four years later with his older brother, Charles Koch.
He was ranked the 11th-wealthiest person in the world upon his retirement, with an estimated net worth of $51 billion, and both he and his brother donated much of their fortune to conservative political candidates and causes.
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/right-wing-activist-david-koch-dead-at-79-report/
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stonecutter357
(13,045 posts)
barbtries
(31,308 posts)Thank Goodness!
one less.
ChazII
(6,448 posts)I asked because of the Square and Compass.
stonecutter357
(13,045 posts)
ChazII
(6,448 posts)I am slow this morning. I guess I have Masons on the brain. Finished up with Grand Chapter for OES, this weekend Corn Fest for Shriners among others.
ArizonaLib
(1,303 posts)My great grandfather (father's maternal side) was a mason. It had not occurred to me before your question. Cheers.
atreides1
(16,799 posts)One to go!!!!
avebury
(11,196 posts)
at140
(6,251 posts)Response to at140 (Reply #5)
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Bengus81
(10,165 posts)They chipped in $5M to help renovate the field house for Wichita State basketball. Five mill to them is like five bucks to you and me and then they do everything they can to destroy public schools and poo-poo climate change. Anytime ONE word is said about them around here about the destruction they cause people start in AGAIN about the $5mill they donated ten years ago.
BFD..........
dalton99a
(94,115 posts)for publicity and tax write-offs
at140
(6,251 posts)for one thing, it is too late and second, I am deathly afraid of ghosts.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)RIP.
Let he be remembered as someone who harmed our country (though his brother is worse.)
Divad123
(93 posts)I can smell the bacon burning....
LuvNewcastle
(17,821 posts)Or come back as a cockroach.
Meadowoak
(6,606 posts)
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)
pecosbob
(8,387 posts)
poli-junkie
(1,567 posts)
BeyondGeography
(41,101 posts)Glorfindel
(10,175 posts)"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." 
moose65
(3,454 posts)That reminds me of what Bette Davis supposedly said when Joan Crawford died: "I was taught to only speak good of the dead. She's dead. Good." 
JudyM
(29,785 posts)
Roy Rolling
(7,632 posts)“I’m unable to attend his funeral but I certainly approve of it”. Or something like that.
KansasKali
(105 posts)
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)malignant legacy will live on and continue to inject venom into our zeitgeist. The corporations and numerous front organizations influencing policy won't just go away. 
Ah, but there is schadenfreude in impermanence and that you can't take it with you.
moose65
(3,454 posts)Now that $51 billion won't do you any good, will it David? And to think of all the good you could have done with it while you were alive. Such a colossal waste.
Clash City Rocker
(3,546 posts)
UpInArms
(54,983 posts)Some when they enter, some when they leave
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)Too bad he couldn't leave sooner, he would have caused less damage.
DaDeacon
(984 posts)still_one
(98,883 posts)Hospital That Saved Him, the doctors nurses, and MSNBC support he received
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lawrence-odonnell-returns-to-his-show_n_5524850
zentrum
(9,870 posts)But who knows? Justice would demand that it be some pollution induced cancer.
Just what he brought to the world--pollution and cancer.
Blood dollars--every one of those 51B.
mountain grammy
(29,035 posts)
FoxNewsSucks
(11,704 posts)vercetti2021
(10,481 posts)Rest in hell son of a bitch
PatSeg
(53,214 posts)"Well the Koch Brothers are old and they can't live forever". I was beginning to wonder though. Somehow the evil ones seem to go on and on and on.
ret5hd
(22,502 posts)SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)are far more oriented towards the liberal side of things.
ret5hd
(22,502 posts)PatSeg
(53,214 posts)ArizonaLib
(1,303 posts)For some reason that someone winds up living well beyond expectancy or never (seemingly never) retiring. It doesn't really happen, but it feels like it does. Charles and David Koch always remind me of the 2 old guys on the Muppets who are always making snarky comments.
rooboy
(9,449 posts).
Bengus81
(10,165 posts)
Girard442
(6,887 posts)...but if he was, I wouldn’t shed any tears.
Bengus81
(10,165 posts)He dropped out of the day to day DESTRUCTION of public schools,environment issues etc--all the stuff that his equally OLD brother so loves to try and destroy.
theaocp
(4,581 posts)Happy Friday!
Cirque du So-What
(29,732 posts)a fleet of armored cars will be accompanying the funeral procession.
turbinetree
(27,549 posts)CentralMass
(16,971 posts)turbinetree
(27,549 posts)
SunSeeker
(58,283 posts)
Baitball Blogger
(52,345 posts)But I hope Koch spends a few months sweating it out in God's courtroom.
DBoon
(24,983 posts)Thor was astonished when he simply could not defeat her
Even Norse gods cannot defeat old age and death
DBoon
(24,983 posts)nothing is too insane anymore
bluestarone
(22,178 posts)Was there much difference between the two?
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)That alone is enough for me to hold his dead ass forever in contempt.
Rot, bitch.
dalton99a
(94,115 posts)Burn in hell
Maggiemayhem
(890 posts)Their money paid for most of the brainwashing rhetoric that has infected this country and beyond.
FoxNewsSucks
(11,704 posts)If only we can be rid of his vile brother and all of their political machinery.
AllyCat
(18,842 posts)That says all we need to know about how he lived his life right there. Not the poor, not the oppressed, not the sick. He gave his fortune to lock up kids in cages, stop healthcare for the poor, and keep people begging for scraps, even when they worked. Thoughts and prayers.
raccoon
(32,390 posts)“All your money won’t another minute buy.”
Kansas, Dust in the Wind
Good riddance!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)
Dorn
(562 posts)My father, a life long republican, would scorn whenever he heard a hint of the John Birch society. The Koch family is the John Birch society. Always remember Republicans of old hated the JBS and Koch is JBS.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)Maybe i’ll find it and get in the line to do it.
I don’t want to hear about respecting the dead.
I hope is brother and family go soon too. Maybe take a ride on a 737 together.
They are greedy self serving evil vile people.
ffr
(23,398 posts)Immortality for selling his sole was a hoax.
Thekaspervote
(35,820 posts)Texin
(2,851 posts)And you can pretty well bet that the rotten apples don't fall far from the trees. I'm sure between the two of them, they sired enough offspring just like them to keep up the evil for millennia.
eppur_se_muova
(41,942 posts)(Yeah, I know that couldn't happen, but I keep having these fantasies of say, Cheney, Murdoch, the Kochs, and Limbaugh all going off on a hunting trip together ... and not coming back.)
truthisfreedom
(23,532 posts)Meadowoak
(6,606 posts)
shanti
(21,799 posts)
Coventina
(29,731 posts)Hooray!!!
The Kochs have done nothing but kill this planet.
The death of one is a happy day indeed!
malthaussen
(18,567 posts)Outlive the bastards.
That presumes, of course, that there will be any world left by the time the last one croaks.
-- Mal
kimbutgar
(27,248 posts)CentralMass
(16,971 posts)
not fooled
(6,680 posts)injecting libertarian crackpot ideas into the public discourse and engineering a hard-right turn of much of the nation's politics.
Millions will die as a result of his and his brother's successful decimation of responsible policy making regarding the climate.
Evil old bastard.
jb5150
(1,362 posts)but I hate standing in lines.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,285 posts)of human beings.
onethatcares
(16,992 posts)that rat bastard created more misery with that than most of everything he did.
I hope the fire is blistering hot in hell for him.
BigDemVoter
(4,700 posts)Good.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)
BigmanPigman
(55,137 posts)will follow his steps ASAP.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,782 posts)We all have suffered from Koch Foundation evil and that's a grand thing in the world of the GOP...........
Raine
(31,177 posts)actually best news all week! 
orangecrush
(30,260 posts)in his memory.
There sure won't be any where he is going.
dalton99a
(94,115 posts)David Koch Was the Ultimate Climate Change Denier
How a playboy billionaire built a political army to defend his fossil fuel empire.
By Christopher Leonard
Aug. 23, 2019
...
This machine has been employed to great effect to ensure that no government action is taken to control greenhouse gas emissions. In the early 1990s, President George H.W. Bush made it clear that he would support a treaty to limit carbon emissions. The Republicans even had a market-based solution to tackle the problem, a system called “cap and trade” that put a price on pollution and allowed companies to buy and sell the right to pollute. Cap and trade had been used to great effect to reduce power plant pollution and acid rain. But in 1991, the Cato Institute, a Koch-funded think tank, held a seminar in Washington called “Global Environmental Crises: Science or Politics?” This was part of a decades-long effort to cast doubt about the reality of climate change.
David Koch worked tirelessly, over decades, to jettison from office any moderate Republicans who proposed to regulate greenhouse gases. In 2009, for example, a South Carolina Republican, Representative Bob Inglis, proposed a carbon tax bill. Koch Industries stopped funding his campaign, donated heavily to a primary opponent named Trey Gowdy and helped organize teams of Tea Party activists who traveled to town hall meetings to protest against Mr. Inglis. Some of the town hall meetings devolved into angry affairs, where Mr. Inglis couldn’t make himself heard above the shouting. Mr. Inglis lost re-election, and his defeat sent a message to other Republicans: Koch’s orthodoxy on climate rules could not be violated.
Mike Pence, who was then a congressman in Indiana, and others soon signed a “carbon pledge” circulated by Americans for Prosperity, which effectively prohibited the government from putting a price on carbon emissions. Those efforts and others effectively derailed the effort to pass a cap and trade plan for greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 and 2010. In 2009, the level of atmospheric carbon concentration hovered around 370 parts per million. In the decade since, levels have surpassed 400 parts per million, the highest level recorded in human existence.
Since the 2016 election, and in the face of more urgent scientific warnings about climate change and a growing popular movement for action, the Koch network has tried to build a Republican Party in its image: one that not only refuses to consider action on climate change but continues to deny that the problem is real. Just this week, Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, dismissed data about climate change by pointing out on Twitter: “It’s summer.” In doing so, he reflected the politics of a party — and a world — that has been profoundly shaped by David Koch.
