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Karl Rove vs. the Koch Brothers
10 October 11
arl Rove's team and the Koch brothers' operatives quietly coordinated millions of dollars in political spending in 2010, but that alliance, which has flown largely under the radar, is showing signs of fraying.
And with each network planning to dwarf its 2010 effort, Republicans worry that the emerging rivalry between the two deepest-pocketed camps in the conservative movement could undercut their party's chances of taking the Senate and White House in 2012.
The billionaire industrialist brothers David and Charles Koch plan to steer more than $200 million - potentially much more - to conservative groups ahead of Election Day, POLITICO has learned. That puts their libertarian-leaning network in the same league as the most active of the groups in the more establishment-oriented network conceived last year by veteran GOP operatives Rove and Ed Gillespie, which plans to raise $240 million.
The fault lines revealed themselves this summer, when the camps split on the highest-profile conservative movement issue of the day: The biggest groups in the Rove-Gillespie network supported House Speaker John Boehner's bill to increase the debt ceiling and the Koch brothers' primary political group, Americans for Prosperity, pressured conservatives to oppose it.
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meaning they could result in injury or death. One single violation of mine ventilation regulations in March 2010 cost Oxbow a penalty of $45,000.18
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Oxbow_Corporation
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Oxbow Corporation is a privately-owned company which was founded by William I. Koch (Bill), who is the brother of David Koch and Charles Koch, billionaire fraternal twin brothers who operate Koch Industries.[1] On its website the company states that "the Oxbow Group is made up of more than two dozen companies with yearly aggregate sales of over $3.7 billion, combined assets of over $1.7 billion and over 1200 employees worldwide. Oxbow’s primary businesses are the mining and marketing of energy and commodities such as coal, natural gas, petroleum, metallurgical and calcined coke."[2]
An article released in September 2011 reported that William Koch had donated money to Rep. John Boehner. Bill Koch has donated at least $80,200 to Boehner’s campaign funds since the beginning of 2010. He’s given another $65,400 to the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the approximately the same amount to National Republican Senatorial Committee. “We are a big supporter of John Boehner. We think he's good for business,” said Oxbow spokesman Brad Goldstein to the Wall Street Journal. “ ... this [Obama] administration has been rather harsh on the industry.” [3]
Mining safety violations
The Oxbow Corporation operates the Elk Creek Mine in Western Colorado. According to Greenpeace,Oxbow’s Elk Creek Mine has been cited with over 2000 violations by the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Oxbow has paid over $960,000 in fines since beginning the operation of the mine ten years ago. Of the 2000 violations, over 400 were deemed “significant and substantial,” meaning they could result in injury or death. One single violation of mine ventilation regulations in March 2010 cost Oxbow a penalty of $45,000.18 Explosive coal-dust buildup, excessive methane, in adequate ventilation, and poor maintenance including fire extinguishers, were among the violations, according to MSHA’s database. Such “significant and substantial” violations can lead to injuries and tragic fatalities. Though the MSHA investigation has not been completed, excessive methane and improper ventilation were recurring problems at Massey Coal’s Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, where 29 miners were killed in an explosion in April 2010.19 In the last decade, the only two fatalities in Colorado coal mines occurred at Oxbow opera- tions.20 The Associated Press reported the death of a 37-year old miner in December 2000 at Oxbow Mining’s Sanborn Creek Mine, likely due to a faulty fitting on a high-pressure hose.21 At the Elk Creek Mine, a 26-year-old miner died in January 2007 when a bundle of materials fell on him.[4]http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2011/09/bill_koch_billionaire_coal_john_boehner_donations.php
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Last month, New Times introduced you to Bill Koch, the Palm Beach billionaire who owns a coal and gas company, is known for his voracious appetite for wine and women, and has two brothers famous for being the sugar daddies of the Tea Party.
http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/how-libertarian-koch-bros-benefit-corporate-welfare
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In 1977, Charles Koch founded the Cato Institute, an influential libertarian think tank, with the aim of injecting free-market ideas into the mainstream. The Kochs would go on to establish and fund a vast network of overlapping think tanks, institutes, foundations, media outlets, and lobby groups that would vilify centralized government and promote laissez-faire capitalism as the only route to economic prosperity. The Mercatus Center, Americans for Prosperity, Reason Magazine, the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation are just a few of the right-wing organizations that run on Koch cash today.
Koch Industries is America’s second-largest private corporation, with revenue of $100 billion in 2009, and 80,000 employees in 60 countries. According to Charles Koch, Koch Industries has grown 2,000-fold since he took over from his dad in 1967, transforming a middling oil transportation and refinement operation into a corporate mini-state involved in oil, petrochemicals, paper, agriculture and financial services.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
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The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the second largest privately held company (after Cargill) by revenue in the United States.[2][3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Wecht
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1) Wecht is both outspoken and controversial. In 1979, Wecht examined Elvis Presley's medical records for 20/20 and disputed earlier autopsy results suggesting Presley may have had cardiovascular disease. Wecht argued Presley died from a lethal drug cocktail overdose.[2] In his book Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?, he argues that the death was likely an accidental result of a sex “game” committed by her father.[2]
http://crimeshots.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7842
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--James Kooros Khavarian - CA - witnessed ANS's 2001 will; alleged former law partner of HKS with Ron Rale; disbarred same month he witnessed will
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-390115.html
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Per the story (http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/09/27/1906405-ap.html) the article doesn't really say. What happens in the body that combining these will kill you?
Toxicology tests showed Daniel Smith had methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro in his system when he died Sept. 10 in a hospital room in the Bahamas where his former Playboy playmate mother was recuperating from giving birth to a daughter, according to Cyril Wecht.
http://www.metnews.com/articles/disc09302.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1798451/replies?c=1413
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http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/31/howard-ks-lawyer-is-a-knockout/
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Let's get ready to ruuummbbllle!!
If you thought Howard K. Stern's attorney was scrappy in the courtroom, wait'll you see what
Ron Rale can do in the ring!
TMZ has obtained exclusive footage of a smiling Howard K. at a Muay Thai kickboxing tournament in Southern California back in 1998. Stern is ringside, supporting his longtime friend/lawyer/homeboy. It was Rale's first fight ever -- in the ring, that is. As his future wife Andrea smiles, knowing that Ron could be beaten to a pulp, Rale, a partner at a prestigious L.A. law firm, proceeds to lay the smackdown on some poor dude, sending him to La La Land in less than 10 seconds
http://drich13.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/15/7776146-boehners-coal-fired-coffers-koch-brothers-others-cough-up-big-bucks
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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/11/sign-the-petition-for-boehner-and-other-gop-to-investigate-the-koch-brothers-for-crimes-against/
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http://proamlib.blogspot.com/2011/02/cato-institute-koch-brothers-rupert.html
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Like Koch, Murdoch gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association least year, the only difference being that Koch wrote a personal check for his contribution, while Murdoch's check was written on a News Corp. account.I'm delighted to see them metioned in the same article, most often they aren't. However, there is a connection that never seems to be made. The Cato Institute is a Libertarian think tank founded by Edward H. Crane and Charles Koch of Koch Industries, in 1977. Charles' brother is David H. Koch, who is Executive Vice President of Koch Industries and currently sits on the Board of Directors at The Cato Institute
While Bill Koch is not as politically influential as Charles and David Koch, he is a coal man, and he supports candidates who are good for his business. He's on Mitt Romney's Florida fundraising team and backs the GOP candidate partly because he objects to the Obama administration's policies toward coal mining.
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/01/7-ways-the-tea-party-sugar-daddy-billionaire-brothers-are-ripping-us-off/
Excerpt: “Two years before founding the influential Cato Institute, Charles Koch bought a supertanker from a communist regime.”
“For the past fifty years, through its Matador Cattle Company subsidiary, Koch Industries has been quietly milking a New Deal program that allows ranchers to use federal land basically for free. Matador … has something in the neighborhood of 300,000 acres of grazing land for its cows—two-thirds of which belong to American taxpayers, who will never see a penny of profit.”
“In 2006, Koch Industries acquired pulp and paper giant Georgia-Pacific for a $21-billion cash payment, allowing the Koch brothers to tap into a whole new area of government largesse: the ability to log public forests for private gain and have taxpayers cover the operating costs.”
“Just two weeks ago, Koch Industries got into the ethanol business by buying two ethanol plants in Iowa. Other than defense, ethanol is possibly the most subsidized industry in America.”
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/01/7-ways-the-tea-party-sugar-daddy-billionaire-brothers-are-ripping-us-off/
Excerpt: “Two years before founding the influential Cato Institute, Charles Koch bought a supertanker from a communist regime.”
“For the past fifty years, through its Matador Cattle Company subsidiary, Koch Industries has been quietly milking a New Deal program that allows ranchers to use federal land basically for free. Matador … has something in the neighborhood of 300,000 acres of grazing land for its cows—two-thirds of which belong to American taxpayers, who will never see a penny of profit.”
“In 2006, Koch Industries acquired pulp and paper giant Georgia-Pacific for a $21-billion cash payment, allowing the Koch brothers to tap into a whole new area of government largesse: the ability to log public forests for private gain and have taxpayers cover the operating costs.”
“Just two weeks ago, Koch Industries got into the ethanol business by buying two ethanol plants in Iowa. Other than defense, ethanol is possibly the most subsidized industry in America.”
http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/how-libertarian-koch-bros-benefit-corporate-welfare
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In 1977, Charles Koch founded the Cato Institute, an influential libertarian think tank, with the aim of injecting free-market ideas into the mainstream. The Kochs would go on to establish and fund a vast network of overlapping think tanks, institutes, foundations, media outlets, and lobby groups that would vilify centralized government and promote laissez-faire capitalism as the only route to economic prosperity. The Mercatus Center, Americans for Prosperity, Reason Magazine, the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation are just a few of the right-wing organizations that run on Koch cash today.
Koch Industries is America’s second-largest private corporation, with revenue of $100 billion in 2009, and 80,000 employees in 60 countries. According to Charles Koch, Koch Industries has grown 2,000-fold since he took over from his dad in 1967, transforming a middling oil transportation and refinement operation into a corporate mini-state involved in oil, petrochemicals, paper, agriculture and financial services.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
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The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1977 by Edward H. Crane, who remains president and CEO, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries, Inc., the second largest privately held company (after Cargill) by revenue in the United States.[2][3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_Wecht
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1) Wecht is both outspoken and controversial. In 1979, Wecht examined Elvis Presley's medical records for 20/20 and disputed earlier autopsy results suggesting Presley may have had cardiovascular disease. Wecht argued Presley died from a lethal drug cocktail overdose.[2] In his book Who Killed JonBenet Ramsey?, he argues that the death was likely an accidental result of a sex “game” committed by her father.[2]
2) [edit] Investigation Into The Death of Daniel Smith (2007)
Wecht was hired by Callenders and Co, a Bahamian law firm, to do an independent autopsy on the body of Daniel Smith, the son of Anna Nicole Smith who died while visiting his mother in the Bahamas.[6] Wecht attested that Daniel Smith died as a result of the interaction of methadone, sertraline (Zoloft) and escitalopram (Lexapro).[7]http://crimeshots.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7842
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--James Kooros Khavarian - CA - witnessed ANS's 2001 will; alleged former law partner of HKS with Ron Rale; disbarred same month he witnessed will
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-390115.html
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Per the story (http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/2006/09/27/1906405-ap.html) the article doesn't really say. What happens in the body that combining these will kill you?
Toxicology tests showed Daniel Smith had methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro in his system when he died Sept. 10 in a hospital room in the Bahamas where his former Playboy playmate mother was recuperating from giving birth to a daughter, according to Cyril Wecht.
http://www.metnews.com/articles/disc09302.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1798451/replies?c=1413
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http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/31/howard-ks-lawyer-is-a-knockout/
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Let's get ready to ruuummbbllle!!
If you thought Howard K. Stern's attorney was scrappy in the courtroom, wait'll you see what
Ron Rale can do in the ring!
TMZ has obtained exclusive footage of a smiling Howard K. at a Muay Thai kickboxing tournament in Southern California back in 1998. Stern is ringside, supporting his longtime friend/lawyer/homeboy. It was Rale's first fight ever -- in the ring, that is. As his future wife Andrea smiles, knowing that Ron could be beaten to a pulp, Rale, a partner at a prestigious L.A. law firm, proceeds to lay the smackdown on some poor dude, sending him to La La Land in less than 10 seconds
http://drich13.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/15/7776146-boehners-coal-fired-coffers-koch-brothers-others-cough-up-big-bucks
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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/11/sign-the-petition-for-boehner-and-other-gop-to-investigate-the-koch-brothers-for-crimes-against/
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Sign the petition for Boehner, and other GOP ,to investigate the Koch Brothers for crimes against Am
The Koch Brothers' Koch Industries is doing business with Iran despite trade sanctions against the Iranian regime.
Demand Speaker Boehner call for an immediate investigation into the Koch Brothers' shady business practices: http://dccc.org/KochBrothers PETITION: Call for an Investigation of the Koch Brothers www.dccc.org Tell Speaker Boehner and House Republicans to launch an immediate investigation into the Koch Brothers' business dealings with Iran!
Demand Speaker Boehner call for an immediate investigation into the Koch Brothers' shady business practices: http://dccc.org/KochBrothers PETITION: Call for an Investigation of the Koch Brothers www.dccc.org Tell Speaker Boehner and House Republicans to launch an immediate investigation into the Koch Brothers' business dealings with Iran!
http://proamlib.blogspot.com/2011/02/cato-institute-koch-brothers-rupert.html
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Like Koch, Murdoch gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association least year, the only difference being that Koch wrote a personal check for his contribution, while Murdoch's check was written on a News Corp. account.I'm delighted to see them metioned in the same article, most often they aren't. However, there is a connection that never seems to be made. The Cato Institute is a Libertarian think tank founded by Edward H. Crane and Charles Koch of Koch Industries, in 1977. Charles' brother is David H. Koch, who is Executive Vice President of Koch Industries and currently sits on the Board of Directors at The Cato Institute
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