Koch boys have a sad

August 3, 2018August 2, 2018 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

I’m not quite sure I believe this. I imagine they will kiss and make up at some point. Via Politico:

The Republican National Committee is sending a warning shot to major GOP donors not to play ball with the powerful Koch political network, escalating a fight between President Donald Trump’s allies and the Kochs.

The move follows a weekend retreat in Colorado at which Koch network officials criticized the Trump administration, hinted they would work with Democrats, and announced they would not help a Republican candidate in a key 2018 Senate race.

“Some groups who claim to support conservatives forgo their commitment when they decide their business interests are more important than those of the country or Party,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel wrote in a memo to party contributors on Thursday afternoon. “This is unacceptable.”

In the memo, McDaniel notes that the RNC has long expressed concerns about the Koch network, which has developed its own data program for Republican candidates to use. The Koch data program rivaled the one that had been created by the RNC.

Repealing transparency

July 18, 2018July 17, 2018 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

“Transparency is meant for the government, not for private individuals,” says @Koch_Industries head lobbyist.
*of course the gov't has granted tax exempt status to — & recognized a public interest in regulating — the organizations to which these private individuals are donating. https://t.co/sRNOGXcFEq

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) July 17, 2018

Facebook wants to hand off election data to the Kochs

April 10, 2018April 9, 2018 ~ susie ~ 1 Comment

As Mark Zuckerberg takes up his cross and trudges to Capitol Hill this week, Facebook is on an extreme apology tour, rushing to put all sorts of initiatives in place which will have no impact on the midterms but will likely impact the 2020 election. This one defies all logic. In an announcement today, Facebook announced… Continue reading “Facebook wants to hand off election data to the Kochs” →

I don’t know what to tell you

November 9, 2016November 9, 2016 ~ susie

I gave up and went to bed, I don’t even know who won — but it looks like Trump. And I started to notice a pattern early last night: Every state where it was razor close, libertarian stoner Gary Johnson had anywhere from 2-4 pts.

I don’t believe in those kinds of coincidences.

He’s a Koch head. They’ve used him before. And I thought it was a little odd that they were so far under the radar this cycle, insisting they would concentrate on Senate races. (They even denied they were giving Johnson money. Even though Johnson said so.)

So I think they looked at the states where Clinton was strong, and they organized the ground game for Gary Johnson. They peeled off enough of a percentage to put Donald Trump, the climate-denying toddler, in charge of making sure no one laid a regulatory finger on their oil, coal, and gas companies.

What a country!