Audio: Chris Christie Lets Loose at Secret Koch Brothers Confab

[deminks]

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/audio-chris-christie-koch-brothers-seminar?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+motherjones%2Fmain+%28MotherJones.com+Main+Article+Feed%29

On the morning of June 26, Chris Christie, New Jersey's flamboyant, tough-talking Republican governor, appeared on NBC's Meet The Press. He then jetted out to Colorado, delivered a keynote speech at Charles and David Koch's ultra-exclusive seminar at the Ritz-Carlton resort near Vail, and returned home the same night, all without breathing a word about his adventure to his constituents.

In Part 1 of this report, we gave you the inside scoop on the Kochs' top-secret strategy meeting, where hundreds of wealthy patrons were urged to open their wallets for what Charles Koch described as "the mother of all wars"—the effort to unseat President Obama. We also told you we'd obtained exclusive audio recordings from the event. And we promised to reveal the identity of the main keynote speaker.

With security extraordinary on the seminar's opening night—audio speakers around the periphery of the outdoor dining pavilion blasted out static to thwart eavesdroppers—David Koch introduced Gov. Christie as "my kind of guy." (The two had previously met in private at Koch's New York City office, he revealed.) Before long, seminar attendees were roaring with laughter as Christie regaled them over dessert, telling them how, in his first weeks in office, he'd exercised extraordinary executive powers to impound billions of dollars in planned spending. ("The good news for all of you and for me," he said, "is that the governorship in New Jersey is the most powerful constitutional governorship in America.")

Christie went on to explain how he'd convinced the state's Democratic majority leaders, against the wishes of most of their caucus, to help him slash public-sector pensions and benefits. And he drew a bead on his next major target: public-school teachers and their union. "That's where we head next," Christie said. "We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all, and we need to decide who is determining our children's future, who is running this place. Them or us? I say it's us."

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Remember, the meeting that Christie used the state chopper to ditch his son's ballgame for was with a Koch representative. That's why he took the state helicopter to the game, so he could ditch it fast and make it to the meeting. He's had several meetings of late with the Kochs. He's their kind of guy.

[Angry Dragon]

1. These people should be investigated under the RICO Act

[rhett o rick]

16. Wait, I think that is all behind us now. We must go forward. nm

[demgrrrll]

2. That is an extremely interesting article thanks for posting

Koch kind of sounds like Hoffa doesn't he.

[deminks]

3. In part 1 of this article posted yesterday, Koch compared Obama to Saddam.

Far more inflamed rhetoric than Hoffa asking people to vote the SOB's out of office. IMHO.

[KharmaTrain]

4. And Says The Corporate Media....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I'm hoping there's a tape of this that can go viral via the inner tubes to expose these oligarchs. Sadly these are people who pump a lot of money into advertising and the corporate media dares not look at that big elephant in the room. They've been bought off and are more than happy to spread the lies and distortions of the Kochroaches to their own gains.

It's a shame to see all the sliming working...including those on the opposite side of the sandbox who have now grabbed the same memes as some way to "punish" the administration. The next year will be ugly indeed.

[Mister Ed]

5. The reason Christie, the Kochs, and their pirate hordes are attacking teachers' unions...

...is that the teachers' unions happen to be standing between them and one of the last big piles of the taxpayers' money that hasn't already been looted: public education funding. The teacher's unions have to be swept out of the way before that money can be plundered ("privatized").

Social Security, of course, is the other big pile of public money that hasn't yet been seized. That is why their attacks on public education and Social Security have reached a fever pitch. It has nothing to do with any political philosophy. It's just theft, on a grander scale than we have ever seen.

[demgrrrll]

6. self delete

[demgrrrll]

7. Do you have a sense that they feel they are entitled to the

money? I sense that they feel that they are entitled to the money. It reminds me of the scene in the Harrison Ford movie where he is talking to the President about the drug cartels money and the President says 'it's our money" I sense they feel that way for some reason.

[Mister Ed]

8. That's exactly my feeling.

I think they sincerely feel entitled to it, and sincerely feel we've wronged them by not letting them have it so far. That staggering sense of entitlement may be incomprehensible to us, but it's seen over and over again throughout history - for example, in the way European aristocrats believed they were absolutely entitled to own virtually everything, while holding the commoners and serfs in subjugation. Or in the way American landowners felt entitled to hold Africans in slavery.

[Raine]

18. Oh for sure, EVERY cent that goes to someone else

instead of them they actually believe it was "stolen" from them ... talk about ENTITLEMENT! :mad:

[Champion Jack]

9. I believe you have nailed it

[EC]

10. They're after the pension accounts,

just like Walker...the unions handle the pension money and at least here in WI - it is still fully funded. Walker wrote into his law that the pension funds now revert to the state since they are now paying into the fund through the state instead of through the union. That's what they want.

[Overseas]

11. K&R. Now we know what Christie is proud of -- slashing pensions and benefits

for public sector workers. And excited to go after school teachers next.

[Erose999]

12. I was expecting to hear about how many notches he let out his belt after the buffet... lol

[Dawson Leery]

13. K/R

[Scurrilous]

14. K & R

:thumbsup:

[glinda]

15. Kochs need to be gone.

[lonestarnot]

17. Gangsta CONs