{"id":13554,"date":"2014-08-28T00:13:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T07:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13554"},"modified":"2014-08-28T00:28:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T07:28:42","slug":"republican-candidates-caught-sucking-koch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/28\/republican-candidates-caught-sucking-koch\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Candidates Caught Sucking Koch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Most Republican success in resent years has come from burying the electorate in an avalanche of lies, and doing that costs a lot of money.&nbsp; To get it, many Republican politicians and candidates make an annual pilgrimage to the Koch brothers&rsquo; luxury retreat.&nbsp; In the past, even SS Scalia and TEAbag Thomas have attended,&nbsp; There they become Koch suckers by promising the Kochs and their assembly of 0.1% vulture capitalists what ways they will take our wealth and transfer it to them.&nbsp; Exactly what is said at the Koch Sucking conventions is secret&hellip; or at least it used to be.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"0828DanaPoint\" border=\"0\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/0828DanaPoint.jpg\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" title=\"0828DanaPoint\" width=\"615\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#39;s not what Republican candidates said that has Democrats salivating, but who they said it to<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There was little revealed in the new, illicitly recorded audio tapes of top Senate Republican candidates addressing a group of high-dollar Republican donors, but their very existence may give Democrats a needed boost going into the fall&rsquo;s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, The Nation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/181363\/caught-tape-what-mitch-mcconnell-complained-about-roomful-billionaires-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> audio of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell addressing a June meeting in Dana Point, Calif. convened by the Koch Brothers, the billionaire energy magnates who have become Democratic bogeymen this fall. Early Wednesday, the Huffington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/08\/26\/koch-brothers-ernst-cotton-gardner_n_5718773.html?1409114131\" target=\"_blank\">followed<\/a> with audio from a trio of Senate hopefuls: Iowa state Sen. Joni Ernst and Arkansas Rep. Tom Cotton, and Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner&hellip; [<em>emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3194133\/koch-brothers-mcconnell-ernst-cotton-gardner\/\" target=\"_blank\">TIME<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Look what these corrupt Republicans are promising.&nbsp; Here&rsquo;s the Bought Bitch Mitch recording.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v87Lr-wmU0I?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">He promised the Koch Brothers everything they want by taking it away from us.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#39;s the recording with the other three.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_kMidwIT8A?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">One thing is clear, the Koch Brothers are spending a lot of money to get what they want, and to get that money, Republican candidates and politicians will do whatever they want.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">We don&#39;t have their money but we have our voices, and we must use them to counter the Koch suckers&#39; lies with truth.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Republican success in resent years has come from burying the electorate in an avalanche of lies, and doing that costs a lot of money.&nbsp; To get it, many Republican politicians and candidates make an annual pilgrimage to the Koch brothers&rsquo; luxury retreat.&nbsp; In the past, even SS Scalia and TEAbag Thomas have attended,&nbsp; There <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/28\/republican-candidates-caught-sucking-koch\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}