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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKoch Industries gave funding to the DLC and served on its Executive Council
Dated (8/25/2010), but good to remember when you see some of the far right leaning debaters hitting these pages. In my view, there are and will always be people pushing the Republican Agenda at DU and in our party:
And for $25,000, 28 giant companies found their way onto the DLCs executive council, including Aetna, AT&T;, American Airlines, AIG, BellSouth, Chevron, DuPont, Enron, IBM, Merck and Company, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Texaco, and Verizon Communications. Few, if any, of these corporations would be seen as leaning Democratic, of course, but here and there are some real surprises. One member of the DLCs executive council is none other than Koch Industries, the privately held, Kansas-based oil company whose namesake family members are avatars of the far right, having helped to found archconservative institutions like the Cato Institute and Citizens for a Sound Economy. Not only that, but two Koch executives, Richard Fink and Robert P. Hall III, are listed as members of the board of trustees and the event committee, respectivelymeaning that they gave significantly more than $25,000.
The DLC board of trustees is an elite body whose membership is reserved for major donors, and many of the trustees are financial wheeler-dealers who run investment companies and capital management firmsthough senior executives from a handful of corporations, such as Koch, Aetna, and Coca-Cola, are included.
I added the emphasis.
Fitting, isnt it? The entity that tries to undermine the progressive agenda from within the Democratic Party was getting funding from the guys who are trying to destroy the Democratic Party from the outside.
Just a side note: The DLCs long-time CEO, Bruce Reed, is now the Executive Director of the Obama administrations Debt Commission, a.k.a. the Cat Food Commission.
http://americablog.com/2010/08/koch-industries-gave-funding-to-the-dlc-and-served-on-its-executive-council.html
villager
(26,001 posts)Who could be freer than us!?
djean111
(14,255 posts)"Dated, but good to remember when you see some of the far right leaning debaters hitting these pages. In my view, there are and will always be people pushing the Republican Agenda at DU and in our party"
Obvious as hell. Especially the ones who accuse Progressives of being Rand Paul admirers or whatever.
Here's the thing - I see admonishments that we HAVE to vote for ALL D's, even if the seem like big flaming R's - because the important thing is to win. But after we win - we have DINOs. It was very illuminating, seeing the Third Way guys come right out and say Elizabeth Warren was out of hand - for being so progressive.
I feel like the Democrats at voter level are being herded right down the chute into a fauxGOP party, with lots of distracting bullshit being blown about.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Yep. The DLC just vanished.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)to win is to just buy both of them. Heads, they win. Tails, we lose.
At some point we will either, have to wake up and quit being suckers, or die knowing we let it happen because it was easier.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)That's one more reason to stop allowing the mega-rich to suck up the country's wealth. (In addition to all the other reasons).
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)And I think we need to keep this kicked for a LOOOONG time and bring it back when Hillary "officially" announces she's running for office. Again.
bvar22
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Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)Though I'm told by her ardent supporters that she's not a candidate and quite saying she is!!!111!111!
bvar22
(39,909 posts)...that essentially advocated Privatizing Every-F**king-Thing,
and letting the Invisible Hand protect American Workers & Consumers?
Sure looks like the same Hillary.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)all a-twitter about the 2016 presidential elections when our choices will be Hillary Clinton v. Jeb Bush or as I will be calling it, "The Battle of the Corporate Stooges." Don't 'cha just love Democracy? U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!
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Rex
(65,616 posts)Last thing we need is ANOTHER DLC corporate mouthpiece to bow down to the mega conglomerates in submission.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)should stop playing with them.
they won't.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Corporate DINOS are so easy to spot on DU.