CNN - "Koch Bros.-backed group gave millions to small business lobby" - Koch? A small business?

[TomCADem]

Just in case you needed to know that many so-called "small business" advocates are just sock puppets for billionaires who are definitely not small businesses.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/21/politics/small-business-big-donor/

(CNN) -- The National Federation of Independent Business is one of the most influential small-business advocacy groups in the country. They battle against government regulation, higher taxes and, perhaps most famously, Obamacare. And they do it all as the self-described "voice of small business."

But it turns out that the champions of Main Street America got more money last year from a group backed by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch than any other single source.

NFIB and its affiliated groups received $2.5 million from Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, a conservative advocacy group with deep ties to the Koch empire. Of the five men that sit on the group's board, four are current or former employees of Koch companies and one is a friend of Charles Koch's.

Freedom Partners gave the NFIB $1.5 million last year, the biggest single contribution the federation received, according to tax records. The Koch-backed group gave three other NFIB-affiliated group another $1 million, making Freedom Partners among the top two biggest contributors to those groups, records show.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. The Koch Bros are allowed to run wild!

the untouchables...

[Caretha]

2. Not surprising

fake advocacy groups funded by criminal billionaire fascists. They did the same thing before & it worked - busing in all the old white "medicare mooching "we got ours - fuck you" teabaggers" to town hall events and protests.

[annabanana]

3. Two owners = "small business"? . . . . news/t

[Chan790]

5. The parent company that they own that owns all their other interests only has ~dozen employees.

So in that sense: yes, as much as any small business can be one with $11B in quarterly revenues.

I'm going to laugh when they both die and someday that fortune is in the hands of some Paris Hilton clone with non-backwards social attitudes who likes to party and doesn't give a fuck about any of their conservative shit.

[Heather MC]

4. Let's just accept the fact that,

Any group with a republican agenda has Koch money.

Homeless people should hold up signs with the republican agenda, maybe they can get some Koch money.

Cancer patients, sick people with no insurance, people losing their homes, hungry children. Maybe if the pretend to push the republican Agenda, They can get some Koch money.

I can't believe all the the good these two dicks could be doing and instead they spend their/our money on bullshit like this. But if a poor person has a TV, Stove, Cell phone, they don't need any help.

Fuck them and their money, it will lead to their downfall.