MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Beck To Plot 2010 Election

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

MEMO: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election

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In 2006, Koch Industries owner Charles Koch revealed to the Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore that he coordinates the funding of the conservative infrastructure of front groups, political campaigns, think tanks, media outlets and other anti-government efforts through a twice annual meeting of wealthy right-wing donors. He also confided to Moore, who is funded through several of Koch’s ventures, that his true goal is to strengthen the “culture of prosperity” by eliminating “90%” of all laws and government regulations. Although it is difficult to quantify the exact amount Koch alone has funneled to right-wing fronts, some studies have pointed toward $50 million he has given alone to anti-environmental groups. Recently, fronts funded by Charles and his brother David have received scrutiny because they have played a pivotal role in the organizing of the anti-Obama Tea Parties and the promotion of virulent far right lawmakers like Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). (David Koch praised DeMint and gave him a “Washington Award” shortly after the senator promised to “break” Obama by making health reform his “Waterloo.”)

While the Koch brothers — each worth over $21.5 billion — have certainly underwritten much of the right, their hidden coordination with other big business money has gone largely unnoticed. ThinkProgress has obtained a memo outlining the details of the last Koch gathering held in June of this year. The memo, along with an attendee list of about 210 people, shows the titans of industry — from health insurance companies, oil executives, Wall Street investors, and real estate tycoons — working together with conservative journalists and Republican operatives to plan the 2010 election, as well as ongoing conservative efforts through 2012. According to the memo, David Chavern, the number two at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Fox News hate-talker Glenn Beck also met with these representatives of the corporate elite. In an election season with the most undisclosed secret corporate giving since the Watergate-era, the memo sheds light on the symbiotic relationship between extremely profitable, multi-billion dollar corporations and much of the conservative infrastructure. The memo describes the prospective corporate donors as “investors,” and it makes clear that many of the Republican operatives managing shadowy, undisclosed fronts running attack ads against Democrats were involved in the Koch’s election-planning event:

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/

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[DainBramaged]

1. We're powerless. Time to start drinking heavily.

Sorry folks, we have NO way to fight these fucks. It appears to me that they have the election mapped out. And we lose.

[cliffordu]

2. The traitors among us......

Maybe it's time to stockpile ammo after all........

[ixion]

3. I don't think there has been an open, honest election in the US since Carter

and Ray-gun ushered in the new playing field.

[Downwinder]

7. Agreed. n/t

[tpsbmam]

4. Memo: Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber,

Source: Think Progress

Glenn Beck to Plot 2010 Election

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ThinkProgress has obtained a memo outlining the details of the last Koch gathering held in June of this year. The memo, along with an attendee list of about 210 people, shows the titans of industry — from health insurance companies, oil executives, Wall Street investors, and real estate tycoons — working together with conservative journalists and Republican operatives to plan the 2010 election, as well as ongoing conservative efforts through 2012. According to the memo, David Chavern, the number two at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Fox News hate-talker Glenn Beck also met with these representatives of the corporate elite. In an election season with the most undisclosed secret corporate giving since the Watergate-era, the memo sheds light on the symbiotic relationship between extremely profitable, multi-billion dollar corporations and much of the conservative infrastructure. The memo describes the prospective corporate donors as “investors,” and it makes clear that many of the Republican operatives managing shadowy, undisclosed fronts running attack ads against Democrats were involved in the Koch’s election-planning event:

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/beck-koch-chamber-meeting/

[jillan]

5. What's really scary about this is that they are meeting in Jan to start planning for 2012.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/us/politics/20koch.html?_r=2

[OnyxCollie]

6. K&R. nt.

[CLANG]

8. There must be some law broken by this, right?

[harmonicon]

9. Laws?! ha!

Laws haven't meant shit to the elite for ages. Bush blatantly and openly broke laws, but it didn't matter, because he's one of them. Laws are only for the little people.

[crazylikafox]

10. They've already bought the Supreme Court

[brentspeak]

11. Here is the real "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy", more open than ever before

Their plan? To kill the middle class.

[Hestia]

12. The list again proves that there isn't very many people doing this - we know who they are...

It's a matter of quitting funding them through business dollars. It will be almost impossible not to do some sort of business with them at first, but quietly quit funding them to the point that they have to have a bankruptcy sale. It is a matter of toughening up and not spending money for awhile, or just to local businesses. That's all they think about is money and we have to show some tough love and quit giving it to them.

[Wednesdays]

13. And so, stop going to doctors, stop banking, and stop using things that run on gasoline?

:shrug:

And that includes avoiding riding on buses, too.

[Scurrilous]

14. K & R

:thumbsup: