Gov Walker a Koch Brother puppet

[NJMaverick]

The Kotch brothers spend millions to get Walker elected:

Quote:According to Wisconsin campaign finance filings, Walker's gubernatorial campaign received $43,000 from the Koch Industries PAC during the 2010 election. That donation was his campaign's second-highest, behind $43,125 in contributions from housing and realtor groups in Wisconsin. The Koch's PAC also helped Walker via a familiar and much-used politicial maneuver designed to allow donors to skirt campaign finance limits. The PAC gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, which in turn spent $65,000 on independent expenditures to support Walker. The RGA also spent a whopping $3.4 million on TV ads and mailers attacking Walker's opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett. Walker ended up beating Barrett by 5 points. The Koch money, no doubt, helped greatly.

Now it's payback time. Besides busting the unions that the Koch brothers hate, the Governor has intentions of giving away state owned power plants to the Koch brothers. In the same bill that takes away the rights of people to organize:

16.896 Sale or contractual operation of state−owned heating, cooling, and power plants. (1) Notwithstanding ss. 13.48 (14) (am) and 16.705 (1), the department may sell any state−owned heating, cooling, and power plant or may contract with a private entity for the operation of any such plant, with or without solicitation of bids, for any amount that the department determines to be in the best interest of the state. Notwithstanding ss. 196.49 and 196.80, no approval or certification of the public service commission is necessary for a public utility to purchase, or contract for the operation of, such a plant, and any such purchase is considered to be in the public interest and to comply with the criteria for certification of a project under s. 196.49 (3) (b).

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/wisc...h-brothers
http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2011/02/2...firesales/

[Julie]

If we had real journalism as we once did this would be more widely known.

Julie

[NJMaverick]

(02-22-2011 10:50 AM)Julie Wrote:  If we had real journalism as we once did this would be more widely known.

Julie

We have the internet now, so I think it's up to us to pass the word.

[Cha]

Yes, we are the real news now and that's quite a responsibility. Thank Goodness for Rachel Maddow on the tube and all those on the net who don't deviate from the facts to get "hits".

[Tarcomed]

Why can't this be fought in the courts? If it is known can't it be proved?

[NJMaverick]

(02-22-2011 07:47 PM)Tarcomed Wrote:  Why can't this be fought in the courts? If it is known can't it be proved?

The Citizens United ruling by the Republican Judges on the Supreme Court makes this sort of activity legal

[Cha]

Spread the word!

[sandnsea]

We've got to go after corporate personhood, with a constitutional amendment. That's the only way to permanently stop this.