Vital Signs: Media homes in on Koch brothers and Walker's proposal to sell state ...

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Vital Signs: Media homes in on Koch brothers and Walker's proposal to sell state energy plants

The Koch brothers' political action committee gave Walker $43,000, his campaign's second highest donation, and helped to fund a multi-million dollar attack ad campaign against his opponent, according to pieces in Mother Jones and other publications. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett lost by five points.

And then this bill comes out and opens the door to the privatization of the state's power plants.

Adding to this interesting political snarl is the fact that the guy Walker put in charge of the office that will oversee these potential power plant sales — though some people worry they will be more of giveaways than sales — is Jeff Plale. Remember him? He is one of the two Democratic senators who at the very last minute defected from the Democratic ranks to vote against state employee contracts last fall.

Around a month later, Walker handed the former South Milwaukee Democratic legislator the $90,000 post as the administrator of the Department of Administration's Division of Facilities. And now he is busy defending the administration's move to sell off the state's power plants as no big deal.

Sound fishy? A lot of people think so.

 

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Thought Control: Right-Wing Koch Brothers Caught Telling Thousands of Employees How to Vote

Big Brothers: Thought Control at Koch | The Nation

On the eve of the November midterm elections, Koch Industries sent an urgent letter to most of its 50,000 employees advising them on whom to vote for and warning them about the dire consequences to their families, their jobs and their country should they choose to vote otherwise.

The Nation obtained the Koch Industries election packet for Washington State—which included a cover letter from its president and COO, David Robertson; a list of Koch-endorsed state and federal candidates; and an issue of the company newsletter, Discovery, full of alarmist right-wing propaganda.

Legal experts interviewed for this story called the blatant corporate politicking highly unusual, although no longer skirting the edge of legality, thanks to last year’s Citizens United Supreme Court decision, which granted free speech rights to corporations.

 

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Now, where is our friend Spud when we need him to point out that the correct term is "hones in" rather than "homes in", anyway?

 

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I would have caught it, had I not been posting in my sleep.

Here's the packet that was sent out.

http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/Koch Vote Record-2-WM.pdf

I had to enter my email address, but you can uncheck the 'subscribe to email' box.