Uygur: Did David Koch buy Paul Ryan the VP slot?
Saturday, August 25, 2012 14:08 EDT
On Friday nights edition of The Young Turks, host Cenk Uygur highlighted a report by controversial Republican political operative Roger Stone. The report alleges that vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) arrived at his place on the ticket through the machinations of David Koch, half of the powerful billionaire Koch brothers.
Stone claims to have heard from sources inside the presidential campaign of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney that the governor was approached at a fundraiser in the Hamptons (the notorious We are V.I.P.! bash) by David Koch and his wife.
Koch, who has worked cheek by jowl with the Wisconsin Republican cabal that launched the career of Gov. Scott Walker and famously stalled out that states government for months in 2011, reportedly offered Romney an additional $100 million in campaign donations to C-4 and super PAC organizations dedicated to Romneys election on the condition that Romney take Ryan as his running mate.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/25/uygur-did-david-koch-buy-paul-ryan-the-vp-slot/