Why did Boehner stop debate on KeystoneXL to run to a Koch function? Well...

[Triana]

You can google the link in the graphic and receive a result with link. But if you click on the link, you'll get a '404 not found' error because the story was inexplicably PULLED:



Nonetheless, here's the gist of it, from 2011 in the Guardian:

Koch company declared 'substantial interest' in Keystone XL pipeline

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/oct/05/koch-keystone-xl-pipeline

In recent months Koch Industries Inc., the business conglomerate run by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, has repeatedly told a U.S. Congressional committee and the news media that the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline has "nothing to do with any of our businesses."

But the company has told Canadian energy regulators a different story.

In 2009, Flint Hills Resources Canada LP, an Alberta-based subsidiary of Koch Industries, applied for—and won—"intervenor status" in the National Energy Board hearings that led to Canada's 2010 approval of its 327-mile portion of the pipeline. The controversial project would carry heavy crude 1,700 miles from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast.

In the form it submitted to the Energy Board, Flint Hills wrote that it "is among Canada's largest crude oil purchasers, shippers and exporters. Consequently, Flint Hills has a direct and substantial interest in the application" for the pipeline under consideration.

[freshwest]

1. Because they had to update his voice chip to run the next Koch program?

Because this needs kicking!

[davidpdx]

2. That and he needed a new shiny coat of orange paint