Pollutocrat Deniers Charles And David Koch File Suit To Take Over The Cato Institute

[kristopher]

Pollutocrat Deniers Charles And David Koch File Suit To Take Over The Cato Institute
By Joe Romm on Mar 1, 2012 at 12:29 pm


The top funders of anti-science disinformation in this country, the Koch brothers, are fighting in court to seize control of the Cato Institute. The Washington Post’s Allen McDuffee broke the amazing story this morning. Politico further reports

Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch, the deep-pocketed conservative activists, launched a court fight yesterday over control of the Cato Institute, one of the nation’s best-known free-market think tanks. The Washington-based public-policy group was founded in 1974 as the Charles Koch Foundation. The name was changed to Cato in 1976, with the Koch brothers as longstanding contributors. The group had four shareholders until last year: Charles Koch; David Koch; Edward H. Crane III, Cato’s president; and William A. Niskanen, who died in October.

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Koch officials tell Politico that the brothers think the shareholder agreement is clear that there should now only be three shareholders, while Crane thinks Niskanen’s 25-percent control should go to his widow, Kathryn Washburn. “We’ve proposed a stand-still agreement and third-party mediation,” said Wes Edwards, deputy general counsel of Koch Companies Public Sector LLC. “We feel that we’ve been refused. … We haven’t alleged any wrongdoing or sought any damages. This is not about money. We view this as a matter of shareholder rights.”

Let’s remember who the Kochs are — billionaire brothers who have done more to spread anti-science, pro-pollution disinformation than any other people on the planet:
- A 2010 report found Koch Industries now outspends Exxon Mobil on climate and clean energy disinformation
- We have video proof David Koch pulls the strings of the Tea Party extremists
- We know Koch-fueled Americans for Prosperity takes credit for bullying GOP lawmakers into climate denial

Of course...

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2012/03/01/435455/pollutocrat-deniers-charles-and-david-koch-file-suit-to-take-over-cato-insitute/

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. And they have major ties to Bain Capital, which owns clear channel, who hires Rush.

So, what rush says, especially about the environment is little more than parroting Kochs' positions.

[kristopher]

2. I think they are alien invaders intent on transforming the geophysics of the planet

...in order to kill off all native life.


Or alternatively, they are (as my dear departed Dad used to say) "Crazier than a shit-house rat".