Big Right-Wing Money Pours Into Wisconsin

[DearAbby]

One of the speakers at the Wisconsin rallies over the weekend was the out-of-state president of the Koch-brothers-financed Americans for Prosperity, Tim Phillips. (David Koch is at left, and Charles Koch is on the right). That association and the big money behind it wasn’t part of Mr. Phillips’s presentation.

What Mr. Phillips did not mention was that his Virginia-based nonprofit group, whose budget surged to $40 million in 2010 from $7 million three years ago, was created and financed in part by the secretive billionaire brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch.

State records also show that Koch Industries, their energy and consumer products conglomerate based in Wichita, Kan., was one of the biggest contributors to the election campaign of Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a Republican who has championed the proposed cuts.

Even before the new governor was sworn in last month, executives from the Koch-backed group had worked behind the scenes to try to encourage a union showdown, Mr. Phillips said in an interview on Monday.

The idea that the counter protesters in Wisconsin are grassroots is laughable.


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[joneschick]

1. K&R

shared to FB,etc. this is the information that needs to be shared. there remain too many in Wisconsin & elsewhere that remain oblivious to the threat. thank you.

[gratuitous]

2. From the available signs, this looks like one of those titanic battles

The Kochs are spending a lot of money and pushing their puppets pretty good on this. Not just the usual "Americans for Prosperity" astroturfers and politicians, but their media shills are being shoved out front for this one. This battle is meant to be the end of things if the Kochs and their death-eaters win; it will be just another skirmish if the forces of goodness and light win, because they'll be back when they think the time is right.

[aquart]

3. Kochheads need to be identified and outed for who and what they are.

Everywhere they go, every thing they try to do, ask "Does this go better with Koch?"

[Tippy]

4. K&R....