Democratic Group Asks Koch Brothers for Donation

Bet the Dems are reprogramming their addresses for donations.

Where is seeweed when you need him?  He'll faint.

The DSCC asked because they're lobbyists, and have no qualms about taking money from anyone for any issue at anytime.  And it worked last time.

 

KOCHPAC & DEMOCRATS

http://www.politico.com/blogs/..._in_2010_cycle.html#

 

A Koch ally sends over a tally of KOCHPAC's publicly disclosed contributions to Democrats this cycle alone, which total $196,000 — a fraction of what the brothers have given to libertarian and artistic causes over the years, but still real money in federal politics.

Their largest gift: $30,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

 

 

 

And the very next paragraph is:

 

The PAC, though, gave to a wide range of largely Blue Dog Democrats, some of whom have been sympathetic to the interests of the privately held oil company, but who also voted for, among other things, the health care overhaul the Kochs bitterly oppose.

You got your answer.

The KochPac will give money to any group that the Kochs think might help them.  That how low they will go. 

The DSCC asked for money cause they gave them $30k last year.

Hey Juan! You're wrong! Face it the Dimocrats are blithering idiots for the most part.

Spoken like a true blithering idiot!

Now Jimi... I just thought I would deign to be on the same level with you and all the other useful idiots and wallow in the same mud... you should really feel privileged ya' know...

 

Not only that, you're wrong.

http://nyc.pointslocal.com/sto...-cuomos-koch-problem

 

Big bucks also go to non-bluedog dems. It could be why there might be just a dime's worth of difference between Scott  Walker's and Andrew Cuomo's treatment of public employees. The big difference in outcry is only because Walker is Republican.

(Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ramped up the pressure on union officials to concede hundreds of millions of dollars in savings on Thursday with the delivery of layoff notices to more than 300 state workers.

The 321 workers receiving the lay notices are members of the Public Employee Federation (PEF), the state's second-largest public employee union, which publicly rejected some of Cuomo's proposals earlier this year.

The union is continuing labor talks with the state. The new layoff notices come on top of 450 layoffs announced last week. All the layoffs are scheduled to take effect on July 28.

Cuomo, a Democrat, had threatened 9,800 layoffs unless unions concede $450 million in savings from wages and benefits to help close a $10 billion deficit without new taxes or debt.

http://www.reuters.com/article...0110707?feedType=RSS

 

That is is incorrect.  The outrage at Walker is at hime stripping the workers right to organize and collectively bargain, the wage and benefit concessions were not the issue, hence the lack of interest in the Cuomo situation.

That is is incorrect.  The outrage at Walker is at hime stripping the workers right to organize and collectively bargain, the wage and benefit concessions were not the issue, hence the lack of interest in the Cuomo situation.

You're half right on the the bargaining rights. The unions can still bargain over wages, but not benefits.

As to other differences, those paying union dues in both states won't see any real difference; they will all pay more for their benefits and see smaller paychecks. The reality of the issue is that whatever agreements a state legislature might make, they can also take when the political climate changes. For Wisconsin public employees, they at least know that their governor was one their union did not support because of the (R) beside his name. For those in New York, they should now know that their governor with the "D" in the bracket will gladly take union money as an entitlement and also take evil Koch boys money.