Kochs Fund $5.6 Million Ad Campaign in Ohio

[Oilwellian]

These fuckers are relentless and stepping things up a notch. Check out their latest ad now playing in Ohio. It appears they want blood in the streets.

Billionaires Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries are funneling $5.6 million through the astroturf group FreedomWorks for an Ohio TV ad campaign starting March 18, 2011 that continues the attack on labor unions that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker started in February. FreedomWorks, a non-profit group heavily involved with organizing the Tea Party, does not disclose its corporate donors. The 30-second TV ad focuses on Ohio, but features discredited Fox News footage taken of an out-of-state protest, inserted in the ad order to depict Wisconsin union protesters as being aggressive. The ad blames unions for what it claims is a debt "crisis" in Ohio. It says, "We won in Wisconsin, but the fight must go on," and urges viewers to call a phone number to "Thank Governor Kasich for leading the fight against Union corruption in Ohio."The ad doesn't mention that a Wisconsin judge temporarily blocked implementation of Governor Walker's anti-union bill over a potential violation of open meetings laws incurred in the way the highly-contentious bill was pushed through Wisconsin's legislature.

http://www.prwatch.org/spin/2011/03/10373/kochs-fund-56-million-ad-campaign-ohio

[ej510]

1. These fuckers are greedy and evil.

[jillan]

2. Love the Hitler music playing in the background - that really gives it that extra little something.

:puke:

[Doremus]

3. There are plenty of mouth breathers here who will eat this up.

They will manage to memorize one or two 3-second bites and repeat them everytime the subject is discussed within earshot.

Case in point is the 70 yo fireman that DH knows. He retired 20+ years ago and never misses a chance to disparage early retirement for freeloading firemen.

Nobody ever said they were smart, which is precisely why the Puke brothers have to keep pumping multi-millions into their anti-everything campaigns.

[loudsue]

4. And this is NOT for a major election year. Just wait until 2012.

The rightwing is going to ramp up the corporate rhetoric so loud as soon as election season starts that nobody on DU is going to believe what is being said, how fast it's coming, and how it will stir up the wingnuts into a voting frenzie.

Supreme court sanctioned orporate money unleashed will change this country for centuries.