Billionaire Koch Brothers: Tea Party Puppetmasters

[Political Junky]

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[Zona]

So just because they contribute to conservative causes they are the puppet masters of the tea party? The tea party is not made up of just Conservatives. The tea party is more of a grass roots movement then acorn is or any democratic or liberal pushed movement.

Jane Mayer the author of this story is not an investigative reporter she is a liberal attack dog that only goes after anything that isn't liberal.

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So? What wasnt factual in that story?


Fail on your part. If you can break down something that wasnt factual, then fail on your part.

 

[Chris]

The pussy mods on this board put this thread into "conspiracy theories."

There is nothing untrue about this story at all, but the truth puts fear into the hearts of Republicans.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

The pussy mods on this board put this thread into "conspiracy theories."

There is nothing untrue about this story at all, but the truth puts fear into the hearts of Republicans.

USMB Loves Chris's stand up comedy routine

 

[Chris]

It's amazing how easily people are manipulated by corporate money.

Thanks to FoxLies and those of their ilk.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

CF made 18 posts yesterday and at his new rate per post of $34.95, today he received $629.10 in his PayPal account from KochBros4TeaParty

 

[johnrocks]

Truth is, you gotta fight fire with fire, it takes massive amounts of money to fight the established parties and candidates, I'm glad that the libertarian movement has a couple of billionaires on their side, liberals don't seem to mind corporate money when it supports their causes, if they do where is the thread knocking Warren Buffett ?

 

[Bfgrn]

And yet.... it is absolutely fine for Soros to be the puppetmaster behind the POTUS.

Personally, I find that far more important - and far less likely to be acknowledged by the lefties.

George Soros is not one of the biggest polluters in America...the Koch brothers ARE. And they are spending millions to KEEP ON polluting.

WHY are you right wing pea brains so fucking stupid. You constantly support the people who are poisoning you.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus

Koch Industries

Pollution
Koch Industries is also a major polluter. During the 1990s, its faulty pipelines were responsible for more than 300 oil spills in five states, prompting a landmark penalty of $35 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In Minnesota, it was fined an additional $8 million for discharging oil into streams. During the months leading up to the 2000 presidential elections, the company faced even more liability, in the form of a 97-count federal indictment charging it with concealing illegal releases of 91 metric tons of benzene, a known carcinogen, from its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Koch Industries was ranked number 10 on the list of Toxic 100 Air Polluters by the Political Economy Research Institute in March, 2010.

In a study released in the spring of 2010, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the United States' top ten air polluters.

Republican Ties
If convicted, the company faced fines of up to $352 million, plus possible jail time for company executives. After George W. Bush became president, however, the U.S. Justice Department dropped 88 of the charges. Two days before the trial, John Ashcroft settled for a plea bargain, in which Koch pled guilty to falsifying documents. All major charges were dropped, and Koch and Ashcroft settled the lawsuit for a fraction of that amount.

Koch had contributed $800,000 to the Bush election campaign and other Republican candidates.

Climate Change Denial
According to the 2010 report by Greenpeace, Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine, Koch has out-spent ExxonMobil in funding climate change denial. From 2005 to 2008, ExxonMobil spent $8.9 million, while the Koch Industries-controlled foundations contributed $24.9 million in funding to organizations of climate change skeptics. Efforts include:

* ClimateGate Echo Chamber—At least twenty Koch-funded organizations have repeatedly rebroadcast, referenced and appeared as media spokespeople in the story, dubbed “ClimateGate,” of supposed malfeasance by climate scientists from stolen emails from the University of East Anglia in November 2009. These organizations claim the emails prove a “conspiracy” of scientists and "proves" climate change is a hoax.

* More than $5 million to Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP) for its nationwide “Hot Air Tour” campaign to spreading misinformation about climate science and opposing clean energy and climate legislation.

* More than $1 million to the Heritage Foundation, a mainstay of misinformation on climate and environmental policy issues.

* Over $1 million to the Cato Institute, which disputes the scientific evidence behind global warming, questions the rationale for taking climate action, and has been heavily involved in spinning the recent ClimateGate story.

* $800,000 to the Manhattan Institute, which has hosted Bjorn Lomborg twice in the last two years, a prominent media spokesperson who challenges and attacks policy measures to address climate change.

* $365,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), which advocates against taking action on climate change because warming is “inevitable” and expensive to address.

* $360,000 to Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRIPP) which supported and funded An Inconvenient Truth...or Convenient Fiction, a film attacking the science of global warming and intended as a rebuttal to former Vice-President Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. PRIPP also threatened to sue the U.S. Government for listing the polar bear as an endangered species.

* $325,000 to the Tax Foundation, which issued a misleading study on the costs of proposed climate legislation.

The reports says such contributions are only part of the picture, because the full scope of direct contributions to organizations is not disclosed by individual Koch family members, executives, or from the company itself. But contributions through Koch’s political action committee (PAC) are a matter of public record. Since the beginning of the 2006 election cycle, Koch’s PAC spent more on contributions to federal candidates than any other oil-and-gas sector PAC. For that period, Koch Industries and its executives spent $2.51 million compared to next three biggest contributors: Exxon ($1.71 million), Valero ($1.68 million), and Chevron ($1.22 million).

Koch executives and their families wield political influence on climate change in other ways too, including direct federal lobbying and campaign contributions. Over the last few years, Koch Industries, Koch employees, and Koch family members:

* Spent $37.9 million from 2006 to 2009 for direct lobbying on oil and energy issues, outspent only by ExxonMobil ($87.8 million) and Chevron Corporation ($50 million).

* Spent $5.74 million in PAC money for candidates, committees, and campaign expenditures since the 2006 election cycle.

* Contributed at least $270,800 to federal political party committees since the 2006 election cycle.

* Gave $10,000 to Senator Lisa Murkowski in 2010, who, in January, proposed stripping the EPA of its ability to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and lamented that BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster has temporarily halted exploratory offshore drilling in the arctic planned by Shell Oil for summer 2010, a topic that even many conservative opponents of climate action have remained silent on in the face of the unfolding historic despoiling of the gulf.

 

[Samson]

And yet.... it is absolutely fine for Soros to be the puppetmaster behind the POTUS.

Personally, I find that far more important - and far less likely to be acknowledged by the lefties.

George Soros is not one of the biggest polluters in America...the Koch brothers ARE. And they are spending millions to KEEP ON polluting.

WHY are you right wing pea brains so fucking stupid. You constantly support the people who are poisoning you.

In a study released in the spring of 2010, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the United States' top ten air polluters.

Perhaps you haven't heard of the Environmental Protection Agency?

If they're not doing their job, then perhaps you need to petition to EPA, or their boss, Barak Hussein Obama.

 

[Chris]

And yet.... it is absolutely fine for Soros to be the puppetmaster behind the POTUS.

Personally, I find that far more important - and far less likely to be acknowledged by the lefties.

George Soros is not one of the biggest polluters in America...the Koch brothers ARE. And they are spending millions to KEEP ON polluting.

WHY are you right wing pea brains so fucking stupid. You constantly support the people who are poisoning you.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus

Koch Industries

Pollution
Koch Industries is also a major polluter. During the 1990s, its faulty pipelines were responsible for more than 300 oil spills in five states, prompting a landmark penalty of $35 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In Minnesota, it was fined an additional $8 million for discharging oil into streams. During the months leading up to the 2000 presidential elections, the company faced even more liability, in the form of a 97-count federal indictment charging it with concealing illegal releases of 91 metric tons of benzene, a known carcinogen, from its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Koch Industries was ranked number 10 on the list of Toxic 100 Air Polluters by the Political Economy Research Institute in March, 2010.

In a study released in the spring of 2010, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the United States' top ten air polluters.

Republican Ties
If convicted, the company faced fines of up to $352 million, plus possible jail time for company executives. After George W. Bush became president, however, the U.S. Justice Department dropped 88 of the charges. Two days before the trial, John Ashcroft settled for a plea bargain, in which Koch pled guilty to falsifying documents. All major charges were dropped, and Koch and Ashcroft settled the lawsuit for a fraction of that amount.

Koch had contributed $800,000 to the Bush election campaign and other Republican candidates.

Climate Change Denial
According to the 2010 report by Greenpeace, Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine, Koch has out-spent ExxonMobil in funding climate change denial. From 2005 to 2008, ExxonMobil spent $8.9 million, while the Koch Industries-controlled foundations contributed $24.9 million in funding to organizations of climate change skeptics. Efforts include:

* ClimateGate Echo Chamber—At least twenty Koch-funded organizations have repeatedly rebroadcast, referenced and appeared as media spokespeople in the story, dubbed “ClimateGate,” of supposed malfeasance by climate scientists from stolen emails from the University of East Anglia in November 2009. These organizations claim the emails prove a “conspiracy” of scientists and "proves" climate change is a hoax.

* More than $5 million to Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP) for its nationwide “Hot Air Tour” campaign to spreading misinformation about climate science and opposing clean energy and climate legislation.

* More than $1 million to the Heritage Foundation, a mainstay of misinformation on climate and environmental policy issues.

* Over $1 million to the Cato Institute, which disputes the scientific evidence behind global warming, questions the rationale for taking climate action, and has been heavily involved in spinning the recent ClimateGate story.

* $800,000 to the Manhattan Institute, which has hosted Bjorn Lomborg twice in the last two years, a prominent media spokesperson who challenges and attacks policy measures to address climate change.

* $365,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), which advocates against taking action on climate change because warming is “inevitable” and expensive to address.

* $360,000 to Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRIPP) which supported and funded An Inconvenient Truth...or Convenient Fiction, a film attacking the science of global warming and intended as a rebuttal to former Vice-President Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. PRIPP also threatened to sue the U.S. Government for listing the polar bear as an endangered species.

* $325,000 to the Tax Foundation, which issued a misleading study on the costs of proposed climate legislation.

The reports says such contributions are only part of the picture, because the full scope of direct contributions to organizations is not disclosed by individual Koch family members, executives, or from the company itself. But contributions through Koch’s political action committee (PAC) are a matter of public record. Since the beginning of the 2006 election cycle, Koch’s PAC spent more on contributions to federal candidates than any other oil-and-gas sector PAC. For that period, Koch Industries and its executives spent $2.51 million compared to next three biggest contributors: Exxon ($1.71 million), Valero ($1.68 million), and Chevron ($1.22 million).

Koch executives and their families wield political influence on climate change in other ways too, including direct federal lobbying and campaign contributions. Over the last few years, Koch Industries, Koch employees, and Koch family members:

* Spent $37.9 million from 2006 to 2009 for direct lobbying on oil and energy issues, outspent only by ExxonMobil ($87.8 million) and Chevron Corporation ($50 million).

* Spent $5.74 million in PAC money for candidates, committees, and campaign expenditures since the 2006 election cycle.

* Contributed at least $270,800 to federal political party committees since the 2006 election cycle.

* Gave $10,000 to Senator Lisa Murkowski in 2010, who, in January, proposed stripping the EPA of its ability to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and lamented that BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster has temporarily halted exploratory offshore drilling in the arctic planned by Shell Oil for summer 2010, a topic that even many conservative opponents of climate action have remained silent on in the face of the unfolding historic despoiling of the gulf.

This post outlines quite well the nuts and bolts of it.

 

[Political Junky]

And yet.... it is absolutely fine for Soros to be the puppetmaster behind the POTUS.

Personally, I find that far more important - and far less likely to be acknowledged by the lefties.

George Soros is not one of the biggest polluters in America...the Koch brothers ARE. And they are spending millions to KEEP ON polluting.

WHY are you right wing pea brains so fucking stupid. You constantly support the people who are poisoning you.

In a study released in the spring of 2010, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the United States' top ten air polluters.

Perhaps you haven't heard of the Environmental Protection Agency?

If they're not doing their job, then perhaps you need to petition to EPA, or their boss, Barak Hussein Obama.

The Kochs want to abolish the EPA. Huge surprise.

 

[Samson]

George Soros is not one of the biggest polluters in America...the Koch brothers ARE. And they are spending millions to KEEP ON polluting.

WHY are you right wing pea brains so fucking stupid. You constantly support the people who are poisoning you.

In a study released in the spring of 2010, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the United States' top ten air polluters.

Perhaps you haven't heard of the Environmental Protection Agency?

If they're not doing their job, then perhaps you need to petition to EPA, or their boss, Barak Hussein Obama.

The Kochs want to abolish the EPA. Huge surprise.

The EPA would like to abolish Koch.

But this has nothing to do with the OP.

 

[georgephillip]

"Gus diZerga, the former friend, suggested that the Kochs' youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest.

"He said of Charles, 'Perhaps he has confused making money with freedom."

The billionaire Koch brothers

 

[johnrocks]

I'm more of a fan of Mises but the Cato Institute serves a good purpose, he may very well be guilty of polluting and if so, he needs to be prosecuted but that isn't the only thing that a person can do that is wrong, look at Soros, he may not have polluted but he sure as hell has used his wealth to manipulate and influence economies and has been fined for that so what is worse, polluting the air or helping to bring the entire British economy to it's knees?

 

[California Girl]

Now they are buying the tea Party

You mean like Soros bought the Democratic Party?

The ''3 monkey" approach of the left is hysterical.

 

[California Girl]

And yet.... it is absolutely fine for Soros to be the puppetmaster behind the POTUS.

Personally, I find that far more important - and far less likely to be acknowledged by the lefties.

George Soros is not one of the biggest polluters in America...the Koch brothers ARE. And they are spending millions to KEEP ON polluting.

WHY are you right wing pea brains so fucking stupid. You constantly support the people who are poisoning you.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus

Koch Industries

Pollution
Koch Industries is also a major polluter. During the 1990s, its faulty pipelines were responsible for more than 300 oil spills in five states, prompting a landmark penalty of $35 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In Minnesota, it was fined an additional $8 million for discharging oil into streams. During the months leading up to the 2000 presidential elections, the company faced even more liability, in the form of a 97-count federal indictment charging it with concealing illegal releases of 91 metric tons of benzene, a known carcinogen, from its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Koch Industries was ranked number 10 on the list of Toxic 100 Air Polluters by the Political Economy Research Institute in March, 2010.

In a study released in the spring of 2010, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the United States' top ten air polluters.

Republican Ties
If convicted, the company faced fines of up to $352 million, plus possible jail time for company executives. After George W. Bush became president, however, the U.S. Justice Department dropped 88 of the charges. Two days before the trial, John Ashcroft settled for a plea bargain, in which Koch pled guilty to falsifying documents. All major charges were dropped, and Koch and Ashcroft settled the lawsuit for a fraction of that amount.

Koch had contributed $800,000 to the Bush election campaign and other Republican candidates.

Climate Change Denial
According to the 2010 report by Greenpeace, Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine, Koch has out-spent ExxonMobil in funding climate change denial. From 2005 to 2008, ExxonMobil spent $8.9 million, while the Koch Industries-controlled foundations contributed $24.9 million in funding to organizations of climate change skeptics. Efforts include:

* ClimateGate Echo Chamber—At least twenty Koch-funded organizations have repeatedly rebroadcast, referenced and appeared as media spokespeople in the story, dubbed “ClimateGate,” of supposed malfeasance by climate scientists from stolen emails from the University of East Anglia in November 2009. These organizations claim the emails prove a “conspiracy” of scientists and "proves" climate change is a hoax.

* More than $5 million to Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP) for its nationwide “Hot Air Tour” campaign to spreading misinformation about climate science and opposing clean energy and climate legislation.

* More than $1 million to the Heritage Foundation, a mainstay of misinformation on climate and environmental policy issues.

* Over $1 million to the Cato Institute, which disputes the scientific evidence behind global warming, questions the rationale for taking climate action, and has been heavily involved in spinning the recent ClimateGate story.

* $800,000 to the Manhattan Institute, which has hosted Bjorn Lomborg twice in the last two years, a prominent media spokesperson who challenges and attacks policy measures to address climate change.

* $365,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), which advocates against taking action on climate change because warming is “inevitable” and expensive to address.

* $360,000 to Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRIPP) which supported and funded An Inconvenient Truth...or Convenient Fiction, a film attacking the science of global warming and intended as a rebuttal to former Vice-President Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. PRIPP also threatened to sue the U.S. Government for listing the polar bear as an endangered species.

* $325,000 to the Tax Foundation, which issued a misleading study on the costs of proposed climate legislation.

The reports says such contributions are only part of the picture, because the full scope of direct contributions to organizations is not disclosed by individual Koch family members, executives, or from the company itself. But contributions through Koch’s political action committee (PAC) are a matter of public record. Since the beginning of the 2006 election cycle, Koch’s PAC spent more on contributions to federal candidates than any other oil-and-gas sector PAC. For that period, Koch Industries and its executives spent $2.51 million compared to next three biggest contributors: Exxon ($1.71 million), Valero ($1.68 million), and Chevron ($1.22 million).

Koch executives and their families wield political influence on climate change in other ways too, including direct federal lobbying and campaign contributions. Over the last few years, Koch Industries, Koch employees, and Koch family members:

* Spent $37.9 million from 2006 to 2009 for direct lobbying on oil and energy issues, outspent only by ExxonMobil ($87.8 million) and Chevron Corporation ($50 million).

* Spent $5.74 million in PAC money for candidates, committees, and campaign expenditures since the 2006 election cycle.

* Contributed at least $270,800 to federal political party committees since the 2006 election cycle.

* Gave $10,000 to Senator Lisa Murkowski in 2010, who, in January, proposed stripping the EPA of its ability to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and lamented that BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster has temporarily halted exploratory offshore drilling in the arctic planned by Shell Oil for summer 2010, a topic that even many conservative opponents of climate action have remained silent on in the face of the unfolding historic despoiling of the gulf.

This post outlines quite well the nuts and bolts of it.

George Soros tanked the economy of an entire country - for profit. He wiped out the pensions, savings, and lives of millions of ordinary people - just to make money for himself. Of course, these people were not American so I guess they don't count.

Honestly, the hypocrisy of the left just amazes me. Y'all claim to be the party of the little guy... the worker, the poor, the immigrant, those who cannot take care of themselves. What a crock of shit.

 

[georgephillip]

The Koch brothers and George Soros are all billionaires who have recently benefited from tanking the global economy.

Maybe the problem lies with too many billionaires and too few jobs?

 

[California Girl]

The Koch brothers and George Soros are all billionaires who have recently benefited from tanking the global economy.

Maybe the problem lies with too many billionaires and too few jobs?

I am not referring to this recession. I'm referring to the destruction of the UK Economy and Sterling back in the 1990s.... That was a deliberate and calculated event - for which Soros is responsible - which wiped billions of £s off the UK stock market, did massive damage to it currency, and millions of ordinary, hard working Brits lost their savings, investments and pensions. But, at least they weren't Americans.

The left make me sick with their morals.... They screech like scalded cats about ordinary Americans attending political events, believe whatever jack shit they are fed by a clearly left wing media... they have no problem whatsoever with scum like Soros pulling their strings and have the barefaced cheek to criticize the right.

Fuck 'em.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I thought Richard Melon Scaife owned the Tea Party? Was there a takeover? Tender offer?

 

[Oddball]

And yet.... it is absolutely fine for Soros to be the puppetmaster behind the POTUS.

Personally, I find that far more important - and far less likely to be acknowledged by the lefties.

George Soros is not one of the biggest polluters in America...the Koch brothers ARE. And they are spending millions to KEEP ON polluting.

WHY are you right wing pea brains so fucking stupid. You constantly support the people who are poisoning you.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
Albert Camus

Koch Industries

Pollution
Koch Industries is also a major polluter. During the 1990s, its faulty pipelines were responsible for more than 300 oil spills in five states, prompting a landmark penalty of $35 million from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In Minnesota, it was fined an additional $8 million for discharging oil into streams. During the months leading up to the 2000 presidential elections, the company faced even more liability, in the form of a 97-count federal indictment charging it with concealing illegal releases of 91 metric tons of benzene, a known carcinogen, from its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. Koch Industries was ranked number 10 on the list of Toxic 100 Air Polluters by the Political Economy Research Institute in March, 2010.

In a study released in the spring of 2010, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the United States' top ten air polluters.

Republican Ties
If convicted, the company faced fines of up to $352 million, plus possible jail time for company executives. After George W. Bush became president, however, the U.S. Justice Department dropped 88 of the charges. Two days before the trial, John Ashcroft settled for a plea bargain, in which Koch pled guilty to falsifying documents. All major charges were dropped, and Koch and Ashcroft settled the lawsuit for a fraction of that amount.

Koch had contributed $800,000 to the Bush election campaign and other Republican candidates.

Climate Change Denial
According to the 2010 report by Greenpeace, Koch Industries: Secretly Funding the Climate Denial Machine, Koch has out-spent ExxonMobil in funding climate change denial. From 2005 to 2008, ExxonMobil spent $8.9 million, while the Koch Industries-controlled foundations contributed $24.9 million in funding to organizations of climate change skeptics. Efforts include:

* ClimateGate Echo Chamber—At least twenty Koch-funded organizations have repeatedly rebroadcast, referenced and appeared as media spokespeople in the story, dubbed “ClimateGate,” of supposed malfeasance by climate scientists from stolen emails from the University of East Anglia in November 2009. These organizations claim the emails prove a “conspiracy” of scientists and "proves" climate change is a hoax.

* More than $5 million to Americans for Prosperity Foundation (AFP) for its nationwide “Hot Air Tour” campaign to spreading misinformation about climate science and opposing clean energy and climate legislation.

* More than $1 million to the Heritage Foundation, a mainstay of misinformation on climate and environmental policy issues.

* Over $1 million to the Cato Institute, which disputes the scientific evidence behind global warming, questions the rationale for taking climate action, and has been heavily involved in spinning the recent ClimateGate story.

* $800,000 to the Manhattan Institute, which has hosted Bjorn Lomborg twice in the last two years, a prominent media spokesperson who challenges and attacks policy measures to address climate change.

* $365,000 to Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), which advocates against taking action on climate change because warming is “inevitable” and expensive to address.

* $360,000 to Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRIPP) which supported and funded An Inconvenient Truth...or Convenient Fiction, a film attacking the science of global warming and intended as a rebuttal to former Vice-President Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth. PRIPP also threatened to sue the U.S. Government for listing the polar bear as an endangered species.

* $325,000 to the Tax Foundation, which issued a misleading study on the costs of proposed climate legislation.

The reports says such contributions are only part of the picture, because the full scope of direct contributions to organizations is not disclosed by individual Koch family members, executives, or from the company itself. But contributions through Koch’s political action committee (PAC) are a matter of public record. Since the beginning of the 2006 election cycle, Koch’s PAC spent more on contributions to federal candidates than any other oil-and-gas sector PAC. For that period, Koch Industries and its executives spent $2.51 million compared to next three biggest contributors: Exxon ($1.71 million), Valero ($1.68 million), and Chevron ($1.22 million).

Koch executives and their families wield political influence on climate change in other ways too, including direct federal lobbying and campaign contributions. Over the last few years, Koch Industries, Koch employees, and Koch family members:

* Spent $37.9 million from 2006 to 2009 for direct lobbying on oil and energy issues, outspent only by ExxonMobil ($87.8 million) and Chevron Corporation ($50 million).

* Spent $5.74 million in PAC money for candidates, committees, and campaign expenditures since the 2006 election cycle.

* Contributed at least $270,800 to federal political party committees since the 2006 election cycle.

* Gave $10,000 to Senator Lisa Murkowski in 2010, who, in January, proposed stripping the EPA of its ability to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, and lamented that BP's Deepwater Horizon oil disaster has temporarily halted exploratory offshore drilling in the arctic planned by Shell Oil for summer 2010, a topic that even many conservative opponents of climate action have remained silent on in the face of the unfolding historic despoiling of the gulf.

Sweet...They're anti-environmentalist whacko/Mathusian declinist moonbat.

I like 'em better already...Where do I send the check?