{"id":7255,"date":"2012-02-26T00:14:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T08:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7255"},"modified":"2012-02-26T00:14:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T08:14:11","slug":"could-walkers-koch-be-cut-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/26\/could-walkers-koch-be-cut-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Walker’s Koch Be Cut Off?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the stage is set for recall in Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, Fartfuhrer Walker has become all the more dependent on the largesse of the corporate criminals, to whom he sold-out his regime\u2019s tortured subjects, especially the Koch Brothers.  However, the Koch Brothers have become so blatant, it appears that they have actually admitted to violating campaign finance laws, as the following article by John Nichols demonstrates.  If so, Walker\u2019s Koch may be cut off.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"26WalkerKoch\"Billionaire campaign donor David Koch has rarely spoken in public about the central role he has played in the election of Scott Walker<\/a> as governor of Wisconsin, the defense of Walker\u2019s embattled governorship and, now, Walker\u2019s desperate attempt to defeat the recall election that more than one million Wisconsinites have demanded.<\/p>\n

Until now. And that has raised fundamental legal and political questions about the manipulation of Wisconsin politics by out-of-state billionaires.<\/p>\n

It is no secret that Koch and his billionaire brother, Charles, have long been a Walker supporters<\/a>. Their Koch Industries PAC was the second-highest donor to Walker\u2019s 2010 campaign, donating $43,000. The PAC also gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association, which streamed spending into Wisconsin on behalf of Walker\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

And the Americans for Prosperity groups the Kochs founded and financed certainly seemed to be active on Walker\u2019s behalf.<\/p>\n

But AFP and its foundation could not campaign openly for Walker or other candidates, as they are tax exempt organizations operating under laws that protect civic and educational charities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So it was incredible when David Koch admitted in <\/strong>an interview with the Palm Beach Post<\/strong><\/a> that he planned to support Walker with spending by AFP<\/strong>. \u201cWe\u2019re helping him, as we should,\u201d Koch said of Walker. \u201cWe\u2019ve gotten pretty good at this over the years. We\u2019ve spent a lot of money in Wisconsin. We\u2019re going to spend more.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post added: \u201cBy \u2018we\u2019 he says he means Americans for Prosperity,<\/a> which is spending about $700,000 on an \u2018It\u2019s working\u2019 television ad buy in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Could Koch really be admitting to a violation for the Internal Revenue Service code<\/a> that says organizations such as AFP are \u201cabsolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office\u201d?\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Nation<\/a><\/font>><\/p>\n

I strongly recommend clicking through to finish reading Nichol\u2019s fine article.<\/font><\/p>\n

Under the terms of 501(c)(3), a tax exempt organization may support issues, but not individuals.  Since David Koch admitted using AFP funds for an individual campaign, he has committed a crime that DOJ must investigate and charge, requiring Fartfuhrer Walker to reimburse all funds so spent.<\/font><\/p>\n

In the meantime let us continue to stand in solidarity with the heroes of Fitzwalkerstan!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As the stage is set for recall in Fitzwalkerstan, formerly Wisconsin, Fartfuhrer Walker has become all the more dependent on the largesse of the corporate criminals, to whom he sold-out his regime\u2019s tortured subjects, especially the Koch Brothers.  However, the Koch Brothers have become so blatant, it appears that they have actually admitted to violating […]<\/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-7255","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\/7255","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=7255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}