Those are the guys I meant. Not the nicest people in the world, but the very
prototype of the uncaring rich person portraied in cartoons of a forgotten
age. I clearly remember being courted by the John Birch Society as a high
school student, I suppose that early brainwashing was part of the plan. The
maximising of their income is their goal, and their only one. I didn't drink
the Koolaid then, and not not either! Ironically, the father made his
fortune selling oil refining equipment to the soviets in the early fifties.
The sons made theirs through ruthless capitalism.
There are actually four brothers, and two are on the outs and not/never
involved in politics.
Bill Pearce
From: John Hermanson [mailto:omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 7:23 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Reminiscing [was: Re: iPhone et al]
The Tea party is hardly grassroots. They are funded by The Koch
Brothers (HUGE in oil coal, gas. Father Fred Koch was a charter member
of John Birch Society). More Tea Party funding provided by Dick Army
(former congressman) by way of "Freedomworks" (freedom for millionaires
and billionaires), and Karl Roves "American Crossroads" .
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On 11/5/2010 9:53 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>
>
> That's not what the Canadian press is reporting. They're saying the "Tea
> Party" has deep, anonymous pockets behind them, out-spending rivals an
> average of 2:1.
>
> Has anyone read a piece in the New Yorker called Covert Operations about
the
> billionaire brothers from Wichita that have a family history of funding
> nitso political causes? They are the almost excludive funders of the tea
> party. Their causes are ones that will allow them to pollute at will and
pay
> no taxes. It is eye opening indeed and should be read by those tea party
> people that consider it a populist cause.
>
> I knew a man in school that came to be funded by them. He proposed, as a
> political science professor, an additional group of representatives in
> congress, nominated and elected by corporations. He later broke with the
> brothers.
>
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>
> Bill Pearce
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