Just noticing: “Observations of a blogger”
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 22nd, 2014
Good morning!
“Just noticing…”
Kochs launch new super PAC for midterm fight
During a closed-door gathering of major donors in Southern California on Monday, the political operation spearheaded by the Koch brothers unveiled a significant new weapon in its rapidly expanding arsenal — a super PAC called Freedom Partners Action Fund.
The new group aims to spend more than $15 million in the 2014 midterm campaigns — part of a much larger spending effort expected to total $290 million, sources told POLITICO.
It’s an evolution for billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch. The vast network of political nonprofit groups they helped build has mostly funneled its unprecedented political spending into issue-based campaigns that usually slam Democrats for supporting big government but seldom explicitly ask voters to support GOP candidates.
(Also on POLITICO: Inside the money wars)
That’s expected to change under Freedom Partners Action Fund, according to Marc Short, president of Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, an increasingly powerful force in the Koch network that will operate in association with the new super PAC.
“The Freedom Partners Action Fund will support candidates who share our vision of free markets and a free society and oppose candidates who support intrusive government policies that push the American Dream out of reach for the American people,” Short told POLITICO after a presentation to donors at the St. Regis Monarch Beach resort in Dana Point, California.
The gathering is the latest in a series of twice-annual so-called seminars that the Kochs started holding in 2003 to raise cash from wealthy donors after treating them to a series of slickly produced presentations from handpicked politicians, conservative media stars and operatives from Koch-backed groups.
(Also on POLITICO: Hobby Lobby aims for Obamacare win, Christian nation)
Freedom Partners, which was created in 2011, now organizes and hosts the seminars. The theme of the St. Regis seminar — “American Courage; Our commitment to a free society” — was printed on massive posters evoking an idyllic turn-of-the-century immigration motif. The posters, which depicted an immigrant family gazing in awe at the Statue of Liberty in the distance, were displayed throughout the St. Regis. A photo of one was provided upon request to POLITICO by Freedom Partners spokesman James Davis, who explained that the purpose of the seminar was “continued discussions about advancing a free society with the theme of American Courage.”
Among the dignitaries who was scheduled to address the crowd was Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), whose office declined to comment on his appearance. It was initially reported by the Daily Beast, which also first reported the $290 million overall spending goal.
Democrats are sure to seize on the new Freedom Partners super PAC as yet more fodder in their mounting campaign to caricature the brothers as evil puppeteers manipulating Republicans. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sent a fundraising missive Sunday declaring the Daily Beast’s report “AWFUL NEWS” and pleading “if we can’t start closing this gap TODAY, the Koch brothers WILL buy the election for John Boehner and the GOP.”
A spokesman for Koch Industries, the Koch brothers’ privately held industrial conglomerate, referred all questions to Freedom Partners. A Koch Industries website entry posted before Freedom Partners took over responsibility for the seminars describes them as an opportunity for “America’s greatest philanthropists and most successful business leaders” to “discuss solutions to our most pressing issues and strategies to promote policies that will help grow our economy, foster free enterprise and create American jobs.”
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Readers: The Kochs are determined to win the midterms and control the House. Harry Reid says the Koch brothers are a cult of dark money.
“Instead of being a religious movement or a secret sect, this is a cult of money, influence and self-serving politics,” Reid said. “This is the cult of Koch.”
I would say he’s right. Solutions? Thoughts? Blog me.
Peace out.
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June 22nd, 2014 at 4:55 pm
This is very scary…
June 22nd, 2014 at 4:55 pm
How much more power to do they want?
June 22nd, 2014 at 4:56 pm
They want to take over the world! HaHAHAAA!!! (Maniacal Laughing)
June 22nd, 2014 at 4:59 pm
Howie, that was a fantastic post. I have so many questions, but I am waiting to hear your reply to the others.
June 22nd, 2014 at 5:03 pm
“The Koch brothers, already known as prodigious political spenders, are now helping to launch their own conservative “super PAC” – a group designed to spend unlimited sums in efforts to influence election outcomes.”
Thank you S.T.A.R.K.
June 22nd, 2014 at 5:30 pm
Ellen, when you have a bunch of crooks like STARK who feel they are above the law, you get this kind of shit from those that own them like the Koch brothers.
June 22nd, 2014 at 5:46 pm
I just love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMJI1Dw83Hc
If Asians Said The Stuff White People Say
June 22nd, 2014 at 5:51 pm
Im DROWNING in white tears! So now, calling white people out on there bullshit is the equivalent to being racist?
I hate when white people always wanna be like “We are not ALL like that” Um… OK? Good for you. Do want want cookies for being a decent person?
Obviously when things like this come up its not all white people but its definetly the majority.
I swear, white people are the only people who have the audacity to tell you your PERSONAL EXPERIENCES are WRONG.
How does that even work? And reverse racism doesnt exist. White people want to be oppressed soooo badly because they think it will excuse the incredible cruelty their race has inflicted upon OTWs the world over.
NOT.
June 22nd, 2014 at 6:00 pm
I’m white and I say none of this. This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMJI1Dw83Hc should be renamed “What Asians who could speak English would say if they ever visited America and had no social life what so ever”
June 22nd, 2014 at 6:06 pm
i went to a polish wedding last weekend and i was the only non-european. they didn’t make jokes like this but i can see them giving me shifty looks from the corner of their eyes and ignoring me when i introduced myself…it was pretty miserable…i’d rather have deal with these light-hearted asian jokes than to be actually ostracised for my race.
June 22nd, 2014 at 6:11 pm
Anon3, be nice if you could learn how to write a decent sentence. This way people hate you and they haven’t seen the color of your skin.
Did you by any chance pen a note to someone at that Polish wedding. Maybe they were laughing at your grammatical ignorance.
Notice how I capitalize my I’s. Try it some time with the proper punctuation of a sentence. Then tell us how you really feel.
Just saying.
June 22nd, 2014 at 6:14 pm
I love these.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL78eVVW9_M
June 23rd, 2014 at 9:54 am
Aja #9 June 20:
I appreciate your comment. It makes me want to write more for my readers.
I will try.
Thank you for commenting.
HOWIE
June 23rd, 2014 at 10:21 am
PrP, I received this trash which came directly from your insane blog. It accuses me of blocking ABs and HBs from commenting on your blog.
All I can say to this is “NONSENSE.” I do not think about you nor do I care about your blog or anything else you do.
Therefore you and your blog are putting out false information once again . . . Only this time I am mentioned as interfering with your blog when I do not dream of doing such a thing. You have a vivid, although paranoid personality.
Please leave me out of it.
This is what was copied and pasted from Prp’s blog and sent to me for a laugh. This is as close you will get to an apology from me, you paranoid nut job.
“howie asking Carr to block my site can’t be ignored as a potential obstacle. But I’m soldiering on. I think his request was the most childish, selfish, intolerant behavior I could ever imagine coming from someone who really ought to be more evolved and know better. I think it is particularly dangerous he is using his alliance for petty, negative, ugly, human insecurities. I have never and would never ask an OB to inconvenience another being for my own personal satisfaction. Sadly, his behavior just shows he’s really on the lower level of human advancement. I have lost respect for him and I will no longer use any capital letters when referring to him. I am not without my resources, and mark my words, I will address this, on his level when I finally care enough to give him some attention. I will receive my apology. Fuck you howie.”
HOWIE
June 23rd, 2014 at 11:44 am
I refuse to acknowledge your name. But I do find it so very interesting you purport to not care, but yet you advertise just how much you do care by blasting to the world here, in this forum. (Which one is it?) If you really had something to say about it, you could have just posted this on my blog and be done with it, with none the wiser. But you obviously have ulterior motives by making your ploy here.
And by the way, you calling me names does not negate who I am. I could care less what you think of me. I know the truth even if your brain’s been washed not to (perhaps you’ve been given the grownup syndrome, either way, I don’t care). I’m not the only one who noticed the timing of the blog archives being closed with my awareness of the tales you were telling of my life experiences. (I guess your grown up syndrome doesn’t make you aware of it, but someone else obviously was).
Lest you forget, I am living in a country that, so far, allows free speech and I will write whatever I wish where ever I want. For the record, others already apologized for your infantile behavior and I accepted. SO FUCK OFF little big man.
PrP