Koch Front Group Americans For Prosperity: ‘Take The Unions Out At The Knees’

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http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/25/afp-union-knees/

In a speech earlier this month at the Conservative Political Action Committee’s annual conference, AFP Michigan Executive Director Scott Hagerstrom revealed the true goal of his group and its allies like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) efforts. Speaking at CPAC’s “Panel for Labor Policy,” Hagerstrom said that AFP really wants to do is to “take the unions out at the knees”:

HAGERSTROM: It’s easy to go out there and fight taxes and increased regulation, you know we send out an action alert on taxes to AFP and we get thousands of people to respond. You send out one on a more complicated issue and it just doesn’t quite resonate…We fight these battles on taxes and regulation but really what we would like to see is to take the unions out at the knees so they don’t have the resources to fight these battles.

Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/25/afp-union-knees/

Taking “the unions out at the knees” has long been a goal of the Koch brothers and their many front groups. In the run-up to the 2010 elections, the Kochs worked with other anti-labor billionaires, corporations and activists to fund conservative candidates and groups across the country. Now after viciously opposing pro-middle class policies for years, Koch Industries is trying to eliminate the only organizations which serve as a counterweight to the well-oiled corporate machine.

[highplainsdem]

1. K&R

[senseandsensibility]

2. k and r

Chilling.

[Marblehead]

3. they have declared all out war

[upi402]

4. Even Shep Smith knows it

and called it out on air to that Juan guy. Ya know it's be bad when...

[old mark]

5. K&R- Take the Koch brothers down at the neck...Fuck them...nt

[PA Democrat]

6. Don't forget that the Koch brothers funded the tea parties in the attack

on health care reform the summer of 2009. The teabaggers who were bussed in to disrupt town hall meetings were given instructions on how to shout down meaningful debate and dialog.

[chollybocker]

7. More like 'Americans for Kleptocracy.'

AIRP?!

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Sherman Antitrust, Sherman Antitrust

you think anybody will have the cajones? Sherman Antitrust, SHERMAN ANTITRUST!

[indepat]

9. The Koch brothers et al would seem to have declared war on a large segment of

Americans who can lay down, take being fascist-fucked, and lick their wounds or: get some spine and cajones, join the fray, and be the ones who administer some major whip-ass. :patriot: