Letter template distributed by Koch group to fight against public health regulations

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/s/politics/2021/10/01/masks-schools-koch-money/

Koch-backed group fuels opposition to school mask mandates, leaked letter shows
A template letter circulated by Independent Women’s Forum offers a glimpse into a well-resourced campaign against public health regulations
By Isaac Stanley-Becker
October 1, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. EDT

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The document offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a well-financed conservative campaign to undermine regulations that health authorities say are necessary to contain the coronavirus. The frustration of many parents who want a greater say is deeply felt, school superintendents say. But their anger is also being fueled by organized activists whose influence is ordinarily veiled.

The letter was made available on Tuesday to paying members of the Independent Women’s Network, a project of the Independent Women’s Forum and Independent Women’s Voice that markets itself as a “members-only platform that is free from censorship and cancellation.” Both are nonprofits once touted by their board chairman and CEO, Heather Higgins, as part of a unique tool in the “Republican conservative arsenal” because, “Being branded as neutral but actually having the people who know, know that you’re actually conservative puts us in a unique position.”

Higgins, an heiress to the Vicks VapoRub fortune, did not respond to a request for comment. Carrie Lukas, president of Independent Women’s Forum, said in an interview the letter was originally authored by the group’s policy director and sent to her child’s Denver preschool. The policy director did not consult experts for the letter, Lukas said, because, “She wrote it as a mom. She didn’t call anyone on the phone, but you can see she looked at a lot of data.”

The group decided to circulate the letter, Lukas said, to “empower people to have a kind, civil conversation.”

[Champp]

2. Republicans killing off Republicans

Where do they get these evil, sickening plans? How can they do this to other Republicans?

What a sorryass mental sickness permeating the G.O.P.

[Botany]

3. Chaos theory .... cause enough social problems and the minority can control the majority

[dalton99a]

4. +1. It is Trump's motto

[Botany]

5. And the Nazis used it to get power too

Reichstag Fire

[oregonjen]

7. Thanks for this

I was Zoom chatting a treasure of a friend yesterday and we were talking about political stuff. I threw my hands up and told her I just don’t understand why they’re killing off their own base. This quote pretty much sums it up.

[Botany]

8. "I just don't understand why they're ACTIVELY killing off their own base."

Look @ the Governors; Florida's DeSantis went to Yale then Harvard Law and Texas' Abbott
went to U.T. Austin in Business Management and then got his J.D. from Vanderbilt these are
not dumb people and they know masks, social distancing, and vaccines work but still they
work to stop those helpful measures. Why? The GOP, Fox News, and TPTB all know that the current
republican party and especially the pissed off old white racist Evangelical people will soon be
a minority across most of America and so they have to do some Machiavellian shit to keep power.
And they still control much of the media in order to drive their messages and get people pissed
@ "the libs." Look at how much coverage those clowns got for following Sinema into the rest-
room and compare all that coverage to the paltry coverage that we heard about Trump's goons
giving those all those refugee Hispanic women in custody forced hysterectomies.

[oregonjen]

9. Yes, good point.

And shamefully, I have forgotten the forced hysterectomies that made the news, for what, a few days at most?

[Botany]

10. And has anybody gone to jail or held accountable for that torture?

But let the emotions of some people who voted and worked for Sinema make them lose their
heads and follow somebody into a bathroom now that is a crime!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

6. Koch

Needs to be broken into a million pieces.

Antitrust laws need to be applied to those motherfuckers. Thier greedy hands seem to be behind so many anti social right wing things that fuck over average people and the poor.

Koch will have to pay for thier meddling,as well as other big companies.

Make them pay and make it HURT!

[tanyev]

11. What do they accomplish by endangering children--even their own?

That’s what I don’t get.