Astroturf In Action: Right-Wing Billionaire David Koch Pays For 40 Buses To Haul In Protesters »
Posted By Tumultuous 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Political OpinionAmericans for Prosperity (AFP), the corporate front group founded in the 1980s by Koch Industries billionaire David Koch, worked closely with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) to orchestrate the anti-health reform rally today. As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, AFP has been encouraging right-wing activists to board their buses — free of charge — to attend the rally. While AFP does not disclose all of its corporate donors, foundations controlled by David and Charles Koch provide millions in yearly funding, and David continues to chair the AFP foundation and preside over AFP’s annual convention.
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Endoscopy2 weeks, 4 days ago
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Typical liberal nuttiness. Compare this to the Obama town hall meetings. Held in places where it is by invitation only and then try to make it seem it was open.
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To a liberal bring in the common people to do something is bad but closed meeting are good.-
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Dionys2 weeks, 3 days ago
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"Typical liberal nuttiness. Compare this to the Obama town hall meetings. Held in places where it is by invitation only and then try to make it seem it was open."
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No proof of that, ever.
But there's plenty of proof of Bush's invite only meetings where protesters were placed in a cage blocks away from where the media might see them.
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normallysilent2 weeks, 4 days ago
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I know the 4 full buses our group took with only 72hrs notice we paid for ourselves. And when it was all over our whole group was invited in for a tour of the capitol bldg. It was very nice of our congressman to take time out of his day to personally guide us through. I was wondering if Pelosi could hear us all going past her closed office door. Funny how hers was the only door I saw with 2 guards. In any case our group all got to go set in the gallery Pelosi wanted closed due to the "Emergency". Didn't see much going on though.
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Dionys2 weeks, 3 days ago
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"Obama paid ACORN eight hundred thousand dollars to register democrat voters."
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ACORN has always registered voters. Irregardless of their political affiliation.
Unless you're saying the poor and marginalized are usually democrats? Guess you've never been to the Carolinas.
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