Huffington Post - "Fiorina Is a Koch Head" - The Money Behind The Tea Party

[TomCADem]

While the mainstream media continues to hype the Tea Party as a legitimate grass roots movement, it ignores powerful corporate interests funding and controlling the movement in order to push a pro-Oil Industry agenda:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-court/fiorina-is-a-coke-head_b_735979.html

There's a name that's becoming as ubiquitous in dirty oil politics as Coke cans are in greasy spoons. And it's pronounced like the soft drink, but spelled Koch.

David and Charles Koch are the oil and gas tycoons sponsoring a fundraiser for US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina at the Republican Senatorial headquarters in Washington, DC on Thursday.

The oil bros influence over the development of the Tea Party and GOP politics for decades was exposed recently in The New Yorker. The Koch brothers' story is a frightening tale about how a stealth power grab by right wingers can develop a populist face for a corporate establishment movement.

Is it any wonder that Fiorina, the California US Senate candidate challenging Barbara Boxer, endorsed Proposition 23, the repeal of the state's landmark greenhouse gas emissions caps also financed by a cool million from the Koch brothers?

[eleny]

1. I can see a poster...

... with that heading and mug shots of all their puppets... erm, I mean candidates underneath.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. those republicans just love to vote for the money people

poor sheep