My Wichita paper did not carry the story or even a mention, but there is a hugh story, link on Huffington Post and Bloomberg news, about the Koch Brothers breaking of laws in France and other countries, stealing oil, trading with Iran against the nations current laws, firing it's own people when they complain of it. Koch's have paid fines (negotiated down to a fraction of the official fine and set in a way they can take it off their taxes) for stealing oil from Indian lands, underreporting and underpaying oil they pick up at the well for transport, spills and pollution over and over and over again, of course they hate the EPA. The congressman from this district, Mike Pompeo, was given one of their top pollution lawyers as his chief of staff in DC, plus the most money of any congressman they give to and boy they give lots to lots of them. His chief of staff made hundreds of thousands working for Koch, how could she make such a switch in pay grade??? Pompeo complains that nationwide he is referred to now as "Pompeo (R-Koch)", that is really getting him riled, he says he is R-KS, that he does nothing for Koch, nothing at all. He is currently in the process of bringing a number of bills up to punish the EPA. One, so petty, to bar the EPA from using interns, unofficially he says on the stump it's on the grounds it trains them to look at pollution as something bad, and that they are more likely to be people who might favor Obama's point of view.
P.S., 300 million. That's what the brothers grim and C. Rove project they will give to Reichwing PAC's to defeat Obama.
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ReplyDeleteSome billionaires use their wealth to help those in need; unfortunately, there are other billionaires who use their wealth for nefarious purposes.