Five U.S. Senators Are Perfect Koch Servants, Americans For Prosperity

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Five U.S. Senators Are Perfect Koch Servants, Americans For Prosperity Reports

http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/01/11/402770/five-us-senators-are-perfect-koch-servants-americans-for-prosperity-reports/

Five senators and 39 representatives received a perfect 100 percent score from the Koch brothers’ Astroturf group Americans For Prosperity for the first half of the 112th Congress. AFP judged Congress on their votes to protect the Koch brothers’ right-wing petrochemical empire on such issues as the repeal of President Obama’s new health care law, preempting EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases, Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget to end Medicare, ending ethanol subsidies, several Congressional Review Act resolutions of disapproval to overturn new regulations and the fiscal year 2012 appropriations bills.

The Koch Five are Sens. Tom Coburn (R-OK), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Ron Johnson (R-WI), who have received a combined $187,400 in campaign contributions from the Koch empire:

THE KOCH FIVE
Senator Koch Contributions
Coburn (R-OK) $56300
Crapo (R-ID) $42000
Hatch (R-UT) $26500
Rubio (R-FL) $34700
Johnson (R-WI) $27900

[Scuba]

1. What? Tea Party flunky Ron "Sunspot" Johnson isn't on the list?

[Jackpine Radical]

2. He's there.

[Scuba]

3. Well, of course he is. But my stomach was turning before I got to the bottom.

[tosh]

4. K&R

[Bigmack]

5. You know what chills me about this...?

They can be bought sooooo cheaply.

The monetary return to Koch interests is measured in millions.... the pay to the senator/tools is like beads and trinkets in comparison.