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Fri Jan 13, 2012, 02:31 PM Jan 2012

Five U.S. 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
The Kochs were the top contributors to Ron Johnson’s successful campaign to unseat Russ Feingold in 2010. Like first-termers Rubio and Johnson, Coburn has a perfect lifetime Koch score.

http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/69-69/9411-five-us-senators-are-perfect-koch-servants
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Five U.S. Senators Are Perfect Koch Servants, Americans For Prosperity Reports (Original Post) midnight Jan 2012 OP
The five are now known as the best kochsuckers money can buy. n/t Smilo Jan 2012 #1
Figures Rubio is on this list RockaFowler Jan 2012 #2
Jeb Bush's protegee. lpbk2713 Jan 2012 #3
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