Look what I dug up on DU's wayback machine. Kochs & Bushes

[Skidmore]

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DU was onto the Koch brothers then in 2003. We were digging for Bush family connections to the Koch brothers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x818603

[JEB]

1. Hereditary John Birchers.

Shame and marginalization would have been their fate back when we had a functioning media. Now they buy politicians, laws, regulations and regulators with impunity.

[Enthusiast]

8. There's nothing worse than hereditary John Birchers.

With the possible exception of WWII Nazis and serial killers.

[grasswire]

2. that thread is a gold mine of forgotten matters

Holy moley. Lots to review there. Clint Murchison? Isn't that one of the suspected actors in the assassination of JFK?

[Skidmore]

3. I haven't made my way through it all yet.

Have to get back to chores so I'll return to it later. I hate it when we lose a thread on DU.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Boy, talk about pennies on the dollar for fines.

How disgusting. They are two of the biggest polluters in the US and get fined next to nothing.

Need to take time to read through those links. What a find. Thank you.

[bvar22]

5. That is what DU used to be.

I would be really cool if the archives from 2001 hadn't been lost.

[hfojvt]

6. well at least it did not mention this connection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Bush_Koch

Which is apparently imaginary.

That is, her husband is apparently not related to the Koch billionaires
or Ed Koch
or nobel prize winner Robert Koch
or Albert Einstein
or me.

[Skidmore]

7. DUers are a pretty smart bunch.

[hfojvt]

9. some certainly are

geniuses, in fact.

I kid. I kid.

It's just a dumb username.

Although I DID score 800 out of 800 on the quantitative GRE and 790 out of 800 on the analytical.

But I have seen that Bush-Koch connection mentioned in other places on DU, and it does make sense that two rich and powerful families would be connected that way.

But Koch is not that unique of a name.

I just did some family "research" and found that a daughter of Neil Bush married a son of the billionaire Ralph Lauren.

Got a chuckle too, because if she takes his last name, her married name would be - - -
Lauren Lauren.