Koch conference under scrutiny

[Demeter]

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=2EDE2F1B-BE40-42F0-AF83-BAB96054F413

This weekend, for the eighth straight year, the billionaire Koch brothers will convene a meeting of roughly 200 wealthy businessmen, Republican politicians and conservative activists for a semi-annual conference to raise millions of dollars for the institutions that form the intellectual foundation – and, increasingly, the leading political edge – of the conservative movement.

In the past, the meetings have drawn an A-list of participants – politicians like Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, leading free-market thinkers including American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks, talkers Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and even Supreme Court justices - to mingle with the wealthy donors who comprise the bulk of the invitees. The meetings adjourned after soliciting pledges of support from the donors – sometimes totaling as much as $50 million – to non-profit groups favored by the Kochs.

[DCKit]

1. I hope the TSA is searching luggage.

I would imagine stacks of undocumented cash will be flowing out of Palm Springs when the conference is over.