A Source Watch profile: Americans for Prosperity

[bobthedrummer]

These folks are very active this midterm here in Wisconsin and elsewhere, no wonder they have such "reach"-they're largely a David Koch (Koch Industries) family enterprise. Take a look at this comprehensive Source Watch profile. Are they active in your neck of the woods-what tactics are they using? Comments on this RW front group are encouraged.

Americans for Prosperity
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Americans_for_Prosperity

[AndyTiedye]

1. They Have Lots of Ads on Facebook

I tag them as "misleading", because they are.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9218359

[bobthedrummer]

2. Robo-calls galore and they network their data with other RWers-they had a $400,000 tour bus in WI .

[bobthedrummer]

4. A belated thank you Andy Tiedye and a link to another related thread

Koch Industries products (started by proud2BlibKansan 9-25-10)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9202161

[bobthedrummer]

5. another kick, Mr. Koch etal

[bobthedrummer]

3. Know your BFEE (version 9.2 +) kick

[bobthedrummer]

6. The Bigot-Whisperers of the Right by Phil Rockstroh (10-4-10 Consortium News)

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/100410b.html

[bobthedrummer]

7. Koch Industries is the treasury of the Teabaggers DU n/t

[Octafish]

8. CNN wanted no part of Koch corruption story

Way back in the day...

THE PRODIGAL BROTHER OF SECRETIVE RIGHT-WING FINANCIERS

Written by John Camp Posted September 8, 2010 at 10:03 am

EXCERPT...

Anyway, I’ll make a long story short. Marc eventually helped me with a couple of stories, became a valuable source on others and we became good friends. Long after I left Boston, he invited me to use his Cape Cod vacation home and I took him up on the offer. And on one of my visits, Marc ask me to have lunch with Bill Koch.

On the designated day of the meeting to my surprise, I heard the whirring blades of a helicopter that landed in the backyard. Marc and Bill had arrived in style. Moments later we were off to lunch, leaving my wife to share a meal with the helicopter pilot. At the restaurant, Bill dazzled me with tales of his brothers criminal conduct. He claimed they were stealing oil at well heads on Native American tribal land by using measuring devices designed to under report the amount extracted from the wells. Bill wanted me to expose the scheme.

For the next two years, he sent me thousands of documents and other material to corroborate the allegations. I was interested to the extent that I flew to Tulsa, Oklahoma to read depositions and gather information from other pleadings that were part of a lawsuit filed by Bill on behalf of the royalty owners. Twin brother David, Charles and Koch Industries were defendants in teh case.

Despite building a cabinet full of background material, my effort was for naught. The story was too complex for television in short form and I was unable to convince CNN it worth a documentary. Nevertheless, Bill got his satisfaction. He prompted a congressional investigation that resulted in his brothers admitting that Indian tribes were accidentally short-changed by $31-million dollars. Depositions and affidavits by former Koch employees disputed that the short-count was accidental. However, there were never any criminal charges in connection with the scheme.

CONTINUED...

http://www.derelictgunslinger.com/blog/2010/09/08/the-prodigal-brother-of-secretive-right-wing-financiers/

So much of our misery is due to Corporate McPravda protecting those at the top, where scum lies.

[bobthedrummer]

9. Thanks for sharing brother-Ron Johnson is running against Senator Russ Feingold with Koch etal $n/t

[Octafish]

10. Gee. Scalia's court really proved that money talks.

Decreed it, in other words.

Any chance the good people of Wisconsin are up on the Crooked Commie-lubbing Kochs?

[AuntPatsy]

11. With the average person unable to focus long enough on important issues, its good that

they get reminders as often as possible..these people are not friends of the people nor should any group associated with them be viewed as anything less...