Saturday, February 08, 2014

But of course Papa John shovels money in the general direction of the Koch Brothers.


The original Mother Jones piece has lurid details of the Koch network of money-engorged white males (a random sprinkling of widows of monied white males illustrates required diversity).

There's one main rule at the conservative donor conclaves held twice a year by Charles and David Koch at luxury resorts: What happens there stays there.

The billionaire industrialists and their political operatives strive to ensure the anonymity of the wealthy conservatives who fund their sprawling political operation—which funneled more than $400 million into the 2012 elections—and to keep their plans private.

Of course he is. It's what fascists do: Papa's crooning: "Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood."

Terry Boyd nicely connects the dots.

Mother Jones: John Schnatter part of Koch Brothers’ conservative donor network
by Terry Boyd (Insider Louisville)

Liberal muckraking mag Mother Jones has a story about an errant Koch Brothers doc falling into the public domain after a big conservative California powwow.

It seems the Wichita, Kan.-based brothers — who used their Koch Industries empire to finance conservative super-PACs such as Americans for Prosperity and black money campaign efforts — left behind a list identifying who they met with in Palm Springs, Calif.

In their story, Mother Jones reporters Andy Kroll and Daniel Schulman focus on one particular pizza chain mogul in the Koch donor network by the name of John Schnatter ...

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