I think that if you dig a bit deeper you will find that the Koch brothers (and Mr. Murdoch) do things just like our government does.

Place funds in the hands of both sides... and hope to control whichever side comes out on top by those funds.

It is the equivalent of military tactics applied to a 'business' structure.

Hedge your bets.

I don't think so.

I can show you the recipients of the Koch brothers personal donations. If you'll look.

Of course the records stop in 2009 when the SC said they didn't have to report it anymore, and they are all Republicans.

Aye they have the uncanny ability to put their money where it will do the most 'good' for them...

but several years ago that money was NOT going to tea parties... It was going to a lot of Republicans and some Democrats... and it was being used to 'buy' votes...

And they were (at that time) the 'whipping' boy of the anit-republican crowd.

Now they are the 'whipping' boy of the anit-tea party crowd.

They and the 'opposit' but 'like' persons and groups that are funding political parties on all sides, need to be removed from the equation...

The only way to do that is to 'can' the politicians that are taking the money... On all sides.

Won't get them all but might get enough of them to put our legislative branch back in the hands of the people.

While you are 'pursuing' the publicly available information about 'republican' funding look about for the 'wikkileak' information about off shore accounts.

there is a reason why this 'information' is not being blasted all over the mainstream news... (fox, abc, msnbc, cnn).

It is because the information is inconvient in the extreme...

It shows lots of democratic supporters that are 'funding' political accounts from those offshore accounts (in tiny little increments).

and by doing so bypassing watchdogs.

again... Both sides are (each for their own agenda) eating us.

I am tired of being food.

lol....not actual money like in making widgets! Money in political funding and regulation that chokes lobbyist for more!

Why was the truth buried here?

Denial is futile!

Tea Party Funding Koch Brothers Emerge From Anonymity
By Peter Fenn

Posted: February 2, 2011


Few in America had heard about the third-richest Americans, brothers David and Charles Koch, until just recently. Aside from David Koch’s gifts to the Lincoln Center in New York and the naming of a theater after him, few outside a small, elite circle would recognize the name or know how to pronounce it. (“Koch” as in “coke”)

For decades, they were under the radar. They and their father had amassed an incredible fortune, mainly in the oil business. Their privately held company revenues last year were estimated at $100 billion. Each brother is worth $21.5 billion. That is a very big “B” in both cases.

For many years, they have been involved in politics but not terribly open or transparent about it. It is true that David Koch ran as vice president on the 1980 Libertarian ticket, to the right of Ronald Reagan. According to New York Times columnist Frank Rich, “his campaign called for the abolition not just of Social Security, federal regulatory agencies and welfare but also of the FBI, the CIA, and public schools.” Since the Libertarian party’s 1 percent showing in 1980, David Koch has very much been behind the scenes, until now. [See who donates the most to your member of Congress.]

Jane Mayer, of The New Yorker, in her 10,000 word piece last August, peeled the cover off the onion of the Koch brothers' empire. And she focused not only on their personal wealth and family, but on their political empire building.

It was not, and is not, easy to get the details on the extent of their tentacles. They funnel money through 501c3 tax-exempt foundations, and they give money to other foundations, lobbying organizations, and right wing think tanks. They have PACs; they support candidates. Only a small portion of what they control do they divulge.

But it has now come out how involved they have been in funding Tea Party groups, Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, and Citizens for a Sound Economy ($12 million). [Check out a roundup of political cartoons on the Tea Party.]

We do know, from Mayer’s reporting, that the Koch brothers have personally given over $2 million to candidates over the last 12 years, their PAC has contributed $8 million to candidates, and they have spent $50 million on lobbying. The Charles Koch Foundation has given $48 million, and another foundation they control gave $28 million. David Koch’s foundation gave more than $120 million. According to Mayer, $196 million dollars in total was distributed in the last 10 years to conservative causes and institutions.

That all, as they say, is not chicken feed, and it begs the question: How in the heck did they stay under the radar for as long as they did?

Part of the reason is that much of what they did was not reportable but, more important, until recently they were not pouring the millions into campaigns through advertising and expenditures allowed due to the Citizens United Supreme Court case. [Read the U.S. News debate: Is the Citizens United decision hurting democracy?]

Now, to the paranoia. These folks would make Richard Nixon’s enemies list look tame. This could be a movie akin to George Clooney’s Michael Clayton.

This past weekend the Koch brothers hosted a conference in Palm Springs that resembled an armed camp. Private Koch security was everywhere—manning every doorway and stairway within range of the conference. Reporters were confronted by private security guards and told to leave or they would be arrested, and a Common Cause official had his lunch reservation canceled and was told to check out of the hotel by Koch’s security detail. Young environmental activists were slapped with $100,000 law suits for demonstrating and engaging in pranks. A Politico reporter describes being thrown out and threatened with “a night in the Riverside County jail.”

All this while hiring an army of lawyers, PR flacks, political consultants, and pollsters to protect their “empire.” Everywhere there were folks spinning. Even reporters, who had been paid by Koch, attended the conference to “report” on what they “learned.” Well, Lord knows they have the money.

My guess is that anonymity will not be the Koch brothers’ middle name any longer.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/Peter-Fenn/2011/02/02/tea-party-funding-koch-brothers-emerge-from-anonymity

What you are doing is called spam.

Continusly posting the same slanted con.

SPAM.

I get enough of that on other parts of the net.

Why should I have to see the same post ad nasuem?

And yet they continue to read this, and the many other articles of factual evidence, and then claim it isn't true.
Claim it is misleading and false.

It is important that people realize the Tea Party is not/was not a grassroots event.
It was orchestrated with the intent to mislead a lot of well intentioned Americans.
It was premeditated!