3 Guys & a Cup: Cain "very proud of relationship with Koch brothers"

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Cain: ‘I’m very proud of the relationship I have with the Koch brothers’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/18/cain-im-very-proud-of-the-relationship-i-have-with-the-koch-brothers/



Far from being the folksy outsider candidate, Republican businessman and newly minted “frontrunner” Herman Cain has held a longstanding relationship with an organization funded by the American left’s favorite Republican billionaires: the Koch brothers. So it shouldn’t be surprising that, when confronted about his ties to the activist billionaires who once employed him, he only partially owned up to it.

“I know the Koch brothers,” he told CNN host John King yesterday. “The Koch brothers helped to start an organization called Americans for Prosperity, and I did some speaking when they were starting that organization. I’m very proud of the relationship I have with the Koch brothers. I have also attended some of their seminars and have found them very informative. So, I don’t have a close relationship, but I know them and I respect them, and they know me and they respect me.”

More than just knowing the brothers and attending a few Americans for Prosperity (AFP) seminars, Cain actually served as a spokesman for the Koch political interest group from 2005-2006, going on tour with the “Prosperity Expansion Project,” according to The Associated Press.

As such, AFP personnel are part-and-parcel with his campaign, from his campaign manager to his former spokesperson. He even credits a former AFP colleague with inspiring his “9-9-9″ tax plan.

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1. The Kochs are filling, Cain is eating. nt