Billionaire David Koch gave 4$m to TeaParty Americans for Prosperity 10yrs ago

Welcome to our community

Be a part of something great, join today!

Register Log in
Eastoff said:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/poli...party-group-private-donor-list-reveals/69808/
Not really grass roots.
Click to expand...

seed monies..private funds, I dont see the point really not a big deal, most causes find those willing to support them. What I found interesting was how splintered the Tea Party is. With so many factions, it is amazing that thy have had any success.

seems to me like the reporte is on a witch hunt, someone should clue the sluth to an actual abuse http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-...rtment-in-organizing-trayvon-martin-protests/
 
Last edited:
Denny Crane said:
Not accurate.

The amounts were in the hundreds of thousands, and back in W's first term.
Click to expand...

Either you can't read, or you think the reporter forged or faked tax returns, or you're just making shit up as usual. He's pretty much documented every penny.

The Koch brothers CREATED the supposed Tea Party to represent and further the personal/political goals of the 1%, have funded/raised the bulk of it's expense since it's inception, and are basically the only thing keeping it "alive" financially at this point.
 
MARIS61 said:
Either you can't read, or you think the reporter forged or faked tax returns, or you're just making shit up as usual. He's pretty much documented every penny.

The Koch brothers CREATED the supposed Tea Party to represent and further the personal/political goals of the 1%, have funded/raised the bulk of it's expense since it's inception, and are basically the only thing keeping it "alive" financially at this point.
Click to expand...

You can't read.

AFP:

But a donor list filed with the IRS labeled "not open for public inspection" from 2003, the year of AFP's first filing, lists David Koch as by far the single largest contributor to its foundation, donating $850,000. And an earlier document also obtained exclusively by National Journal lists millions more in financial contributions from the conservative industrialist to AFP's predecessor.
Click to expand...

See the bold part?

Citizens for a Sound Economy:

AFP was started in 2004 after it split "due to philosophical differences" from a predecessor called Citizens for a Sound Economy, which also spun off FreedomWorks, one of the groups currently leading the charge against Obamacare. A separate previously unreported Schedule B from Citizens for a Sound Economy Educational Fund lists a number of big corporate and foundation donations, but records David Koch as the largest funder.

That document, from 2001, states that the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation provided the single largest contribution, $2.35 million, while David Koch personally donated $1 million, and Koch Industries chipped in another $952,500, for a total of more than $4 million.
Click to expand...

I highlighted in red the year, which was W's first year in office.
 
Nate4Prez said:
I don't think you understand what the Tea Party is. I think you believe it to be something it was or something you thought it would become.
Click to expand...

I think it's a lot of different organizations. Most of them not funded. Hundreds, even, denied 501(C)4 status by the IRS, which made a big stink.

But believe what you want.
 
Denny has it right. The Left can't grasp a group of people self-leading; a loose confederation of organizations who have the same general goals. They just take their orders from Nancy Pelosi who called it "Astroturf".
 
Denny Crane said:
You can't read.

AFP:

See the bold part?

Citizens for a Sound Economy:



I highlighted in red the year, which was W's first year in office.
Click to expand...

You confirmed my post and showed you were wrong. Having a bad day?
 
maxiep said:
Denny has it right. The Left can't grasp a group of people self-leading; a loose confederation of organizations who have the same general goals. They just take their orders from Nancy Pelosi who called it "Astroturf".
Click to expand...

Barf.

Like I listen to anything Nancy Pelosi has to say. Besides, she didn't make up "astroturfing," it's a pretty commonly used tactic all over the political world.

Grassroots implies that the movement isn't being orchestrated by powerful players for their political gain. Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers are clearly those powerful players.
 
hoojacks said:
sometimes in this life we have to rely on other people to tell us information
Click to expand...

Well, I told you you can help your Dad and this is true. I hope you get to it soon.
I also know that most of the tea party groups get damn little from anyone except themselves and a whole lot a shit from the IRS.
 
hoojacks said:
Barf.

Like I listen to anything Nancy Pelosi has to say. Besides, she didn't make up "astroturfing," it's a pretty commonly used tactic all over the political world.

Grassroots implies that the movement isn't being orchestrated by powerful players for their political gain. Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers are clearly those powerful players.
Click to expand...

Nice way to display your ignorance on the subject.

And no, I am not going to help you out, by correcting your false ideas. You probably dont care enough to learn the truth.
 
Obama gives his people free money all the time, what's the difference?


Oh that's right, it wasn't MY money
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

truebluefan
David Koch, Billionaire Conservative Financier And Industrialist, Dead At 79
Replies
0
Views
381
truebluefan
truebluefan
MARIS61
Billionaires at The Public Trough
2
Replies
37
Views
7K
riverman
riverman
maxiep
What's Next?
Replies
4
Views
760
MARIS61
MARIS61
SlyPokerDog
USA TODAY's Editorial Board: Trump is 'unfit for the presidency'
3 4 5
Replies
129
Views
10K
blue32
blue32
M Two One
UTM: M Two One (answers)
Replies
26
Views
1K
Sir Desmond
Sir Desmond

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)
Back
Top