Not an Employee? Herman Cain Had Mailing and Email Addresses at Koch's Americans For Prosperity HQ

[deminks]

Cain's campaign staff say he wasn't an employee of the Tea Party group founded by David Koch. But he did have a desk and an email address at its headquarters.

http://www.alternet.org/news/152826/not_an_employee_herman_cain_had_mailing_and_email_addresses_at_koch%27s_americans_for_prosperity_hq

As the New Yorker's Jane Mayer wrote earlier this week, members of Herman Cain's campaign staff are loath to discuss his longstanding ties to Americans for Prosperity and the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the organizing groups founded by billionaire David Koch, about whom Mayer famously wrote a comprehensive profile last year. AlterNet began reporting on Cain's ties to Koch last June, after Cain launched his presidential campaign.

In Mayer's 2010 exposé, "Covert Operations," she detailed the network of right-wing think tanks and organizations funded by David Koch and his brother Charles, principals in Koch Industries, the second-largest privately held company in the United States, according to Forbes.

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As far back as 2005 -- the year Americans for Prosperity was founded -- Cain was fronting the group's efforts to add chapters, as Think Progress reported earlier this month, and the Associated Press explored last weekend, with a campaign called the Prosperity Expansion Project. AlterNet has since learned that Cain was more than simply a cheerleader for the project; he had a mailing address and email address at Americans for Prosperity headquarters.

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[Scuba]

1. He was a paid-by-the-post blogger. 50 cents/post, 10 cents for a rec/unrec. n/t

[Historic NY]

2. Oh he was just the pizza boy, David give Herman a tip.