Because they care

[reverend_darth]

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/blogs/ticket/koch-industries-sends-pro-romney-packet-employees-195709471--election.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US

[ekg]

I said last week in an email to TRMS asking her to eviscerate the other guy.. because if she didn't, or someone with large,loud voice didn't.. it was going to spread to other 1%'ers..

wish I wasn't right on this one..

isn't this voter intimidation?

and really? wtf? what is it about Obama? I can't ever remember anything like this.. what is it in his 'platform' that has the 1%'ers strong-arming their employees.. it can't be the taxes because he's not promising to raise them to some extreme,never-seen-before number... and it damn sure aint 'the economy' because most of the are sitting on trillions of wealth just waiting....

so wtf is it?

[ekg]

here's a great reply from huffpo..

Just one more election cycle to go--and if the Koch Brothers get their desired outcome in this election they won't have to spend all their "treasure" to influence the vote in future elections--corporate interest will control Congress, the WH, and SCOTUS.

We won't have to worry about the Citizen's United decision any more--any perception we will have "free and fair" elections in the future will be gone--with the stroke of a pen (or a dozen pens) by a President with "enough digits to hold a pen."

Citizens don't need to organize or rally together to know the importance and value of voting their individual conscience based on their individual situation.

I don't need to highlight the most relevant because it's all relevant.. not too mention true enough that anyone with a brain should fight against this shit....

[Howey]

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

Billionaire William Koch is facing a lawsuit in federal court from a former top-level employee who claims the energy mogul lured him to a secluded property, where he was imprisoned and interrogated for a period of time, according to a report in Courthouse News.

John Houston Scott, an attorney for Kirby Martenson, a former executive for a number of Koch subsidiaries, confirmed the story to HuffPost, adding that he guessed the case could go to trial in a year.

The case was filed in San Francisco, where the Republican-backing Kochs are not deeply popular.

Martensen alleges that the multiple-day-long incident was set off by an anonymous letter accusing Martensen of mismanaging and stealing from Oxbow Carbon & Minerals International while serving as the company's vice president. That accusation prompted the company's leadership to read Martensen's letters and emails without his knowledge, the suit charges, which led the company to discover that Martensen had deep reservations about the legality of the company's tax avoidance strategies.

At first I thought this was an example of the HuffPo and others getting a little silly. Until...

I read this:

Martensen alleges he was told by his superiors that he was transferred overseas to Asia so that the Koch company could avoid paying U.S. taxes on some $200,000,000 in profits.

I believe every word in there.

[ekg]

yeah, I read that over the weekend.. the guy did steal from them so I don't know how much weight his allegations have..

but either way, nothing will happen to the Koch bros..

[uselesslegs]

Yup, they're pretty much untouchable.  They could have both brothers, on tape, passionately condoning this...and a few million dollars later...poof...over.