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Bridget Bowman of Roll Call reports a controversial "screening, press conference, or meeting" - it became unclear exactly what it was after a G.O.P. rules challenge - last night, in the Capital Visitors Center Center of 'Koch Brothers Exposed Film Premieres, but Democrats Take No Questions. The Republicans accused Democrats of impropriety, and the Democrats basically said. ... well why don't you read about it ... you will get a chuckle I think.
The Koch brothers tentacles have sunken deep into our democracy and deep into the Republican Party, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told the few dozen interested people and reporters in attendance. Thats evident by the fact they even tried to stop us from having this meeting.
Republicans accused Democrats of violating the rules about film premiers on Capital grogugd, but Democrats responded that the rules did not apply to the room in the CVC and that, anyway, the event wasn't a "screening," but rather was a press conference. A press release describing the event called it a screening but that apparently was misprint. (snark alert.) And, although the press release advertised a "Q and A with Pelosi and Reid" neither took questions after their speeches.
Ah, it must be nice to be the Senate Majority Leader. The Report did not indicate where Senate Majority Reid told Republican they could send their complaints. I can only image there must be a special place. (Humor alert. Just as he discovered the CVC was "special room." That ones of the reasons Reid is the Majority Leader as he is very clever about rules. Senator Sanders didn't take questions either but CQ Roll Call did ask him questions as he was leaving.
I didnt make that decision but I think its important that we do hold it, the Vermont Independent said. Were dealing with campaign finance reform. And if youre interested in education, climate change, health care, any other major issue facing this country, you have got to be concerned about campaign finance reform.
The film itself highlights the Koch brothers influence on the political process and incorporates ominous music and a narrator with a Southern drawl. It updates Greenwalds 2012 Koch brothers film and focuses on their role in the Citizens United decision and their opposition to raising the minimum wage. Roughly half of the 2014 edition includes new content, including interviews with Reid, who has launched a crusade against the Kochs in Congress.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/21/1301026/-Sen-Bernie-Sanders-and-Harry-Reid-screen-new-film-The-Koch-Brothers-Exposed-Watch-it-Free
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(4,835 posts)He had those little TV shows where he showed graphs.
This is how the democrats should 'campaign' for 2014. Put this on the air - tie the republicans to the Koch brothers and advertise when it's going to be on.
When they asked Ross Perot why he ran these programs instead of flooding the airwaves with 30 second spots. He said "cost effective" apparently it's cheaper to run a half hour show than it is to run the ads.
I would be a lot more responsive to the absolute fucking saturation of funding requests that I receive if the emails said "we want to run this half hour show at x:00 on x-day watch it on YouTube and give us money if you'd like to see this on TV". Some of the shit they send me - well, it's just not persuasive at all.