How The Koch Brothers Are Organizing Against Your Local Zoo, Transit And School Board

[applegrove]

How The Koch Brothers Are Organizing Against Your Local Zoo, Transit And School Board

by Samantha Lachman at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/14/koch-brothers-local-elections_n_5675842.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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WASHINGTON -- Though the network of conservative groups funded by billionaires Charles and David Koch are better known for spending millions on top-tier Senate and gubernatorial races, they may be having a more durable impact at the local level.

A report released Thursday by the left-leaning Center for American Progress Action Fund compiles example after example of how Americans for Prosperity is mobilizing supporters to campaign against local tax increases and mass transit systems and for like-minded candidates running for school and county boards. Americans for Prosperity is a key player in the Koch-affiliated universe, with chapters in 35 states.

Among the local targets cited was a proposed tax increase to provide a permanent source of funding for the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. After Americans for Prosperity's Ohio chapter mailed fliers, made calls, ran radio ads and knocked on thousands of doors, the proposal was defeated.

"There is no issue we won't get involved in if you’re going to raise taxes," Eli Miller, director of the Ohio chapter, told a local NPR affiliate in April.

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"I think there are many people, even in the communities affected by these efforts, who are largely unaware that these wealthy outside interests are having an impact on what happens there," he said. "The Koch brothers are looking out for themselves and their own economic interests, but they cloak that in a kind of political and economic philosophy that allows them to pretend to be high-minded in their motivations. Their motivations are selfish and people need to know that. Once people understand the threat to the democratic process and understand the source of that threat, we will be better able to help local communities protect themselves from these efforts."




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[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, applegrove.

[applegrove]

2. Your welcome. My pleasure.

[randys1]

3. Koch bros are terrorists, they need to be treated the way we treat Al Qaeda

lord knows they will do FAR FAR more harm to us than Al Qaeda ever will