Showing posts with label Koch Brothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Koch Brothers. Show all posts
The 99% Voice Their Concerns to Gov. Scott Walker & The Koch Bros.
"Governor Walker has vilified unions and insulted the 99% who depend on living wages and adequate benefits to support their families, while on the payroll of the right-wing billionaire Koch brothers... It is not so different from our state (Illinois) where corporations and bought-off politicians clamor to find ways to grant a $100 million tax break to the Mercantile Exchange, one of the most profitable companies in the state, while social services are being slashed, while workers' pensions are threatened, and homelessness, poverty, and joblessness continue to rise."
Profile of the Koch Bros & Their Secret Money
The billionaire brothers bankrolling the get-Obama-out campaign - The Irish Times: LARA MARLOWE
PROFILE THE KOCH BROTHERS:�WHAT’S THE WORLD coming to when a billionaire can’t buy a presidential candidate or shut down a labour union?
This was not a good week for the richest brothers in the US, Charles and David Koch (pronounced Coke), respectively chief executive and executive vice-president of Koch Industries, the oil, gas and chemical conglomerate that is believed to be the world’s second-largest privately held company, with an estimated annual revenue of $100 billion (€73 billion).
The Koch brothers’ attempts to choose the Republican presidential nominee are endangered by the sexual harassment scandal involving candidate Herman Cain, and a union-bashing law they sponsored in Ohio was repealed by voters.
The brothers’ combined personal fortune of $50 billion is surpassed in the US only by those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. For more than three decades the Koch brothers, now in their 70s, have been �minences grises in conservative politics, synonymous with big, secret money and manipulation. They are believed to have given more than $100 million to right-wing causes, at least half of it to discredit scientific evidence of climate change.
Read more: http://bit.ly/rBzlFg
PROFILE THE KOCH BROTHERS:�WHAT’S THE WORLD coming to when a billionaire can’t buy a presidential candidate or shut down a labour union?
This was not a good week for the richest brothers in the US, Charles and David Koch (pronounced Coke), respectively chief executive and executive vice-president of Koch Industries, the oil, gas and chemical conglomerate that is believed to be the world’s second-largest privately held company, with an estimated annual revenue of $100 billion (€73 billion).
The Koch brothers’ attempts to choose the Republican presidential nominee are endangered by the sexual harassment scandal involving candidate Herman Cain, and a union-bashing law they sponsored in Ohio was repealed by voters.
The brothers’ combined personal fortune of $50 billion is surpassed in the US only by those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. For more than three decades the Koch brothers, now in their 70s, have been �minences grises in conservative politics, synonymous with big, secret money and manipulation. They are believed to have given more than $100 million to right-wing causes, at least half of it to discredit scientific evidence of climate change.
Read more: http://bit.ly/rBzlFg
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