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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFive 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 Obamas new health care law, preempting EPAs authority to regulate greenhouse gases, Chairman Paul Ryans 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 Johnsons 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)
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Jan 2012
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Smilo
(1,944 posts)1. The five are now known as the best kochsuckers money can buy. n/t
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)2. Figures Rubio is on this list
What a total turd he is
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)3. Jeb Bush's protegee.
No surprise at all.