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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKoch Company Denies Responsibility For Shutdown
http://www.buzzfeed.com/jacobfischler/koch-company-denies-responsibility-for-shutdownTHIS.MAKES.MY.BLOOD.BOIL.
In a letter to Capitol Hill a representative for Koch Industries rebuked claims by Sen. Harry Reid that the Koch brothers are responsible for a government shutdown. Reid referenced a New York Times article on the Senate floor Tuesday, which in part read, The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, have been deeply involved with financing the overall effort.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)He even reiterates the demands for spending to be reduced below sequester levels.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Koch Bros. gave $500k to Heritage Action
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/koch-brothers-heritage-action-donation-98054.html
let's be clear: the heritage foundation has been instrumental re the shutdown and urging repuke shitstains to not raise the debt ceiling.
Koch Bros. fund slick parodies targeting government spending
Read more at http://www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/Koch_operatives_dark_money_group_leading_charge_to_cut_spending.html#59rJicFeGtAExsw7.99
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)If everything were going happily to their devious plan,
they'd be owning it bigtime.
What this tells me is that the GOP is in shambles.
Buddaman
(503 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)They are just great fellows, dontcha know . . .
pscot
(21,024 posts)These people give weasels a bad name.
madokie
(51,076 posts)lying no good sobs anyway
Segami
(14,923 posts)The Koch's are traitors and subverters to our system.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)And just like kids, "I didn't do it" and lying about their role. Yep, they need to fess up.
dawnie51
(959 posts)more and more the people are hearing your names attached to their misery, seeing your pasty faces attached to their anguish. You are not invisible behind the curtain, and hopefully, soon you will be completely exposed as the evil, amoral bastards that you are.
BluegrassStateBlues
(881 posts)BULLSHIT!
lame54
(35,293 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)But he does not deny the Koch Brothers are behind it.
Who is paying the big donations? The Brohters themselves or Koch Companies.
Sad when a company disavows its owners.