Michele Bachmann: The First 2012er to Get Koch Cash

[Bozita]

Source: Mother Jones

Michele Bachmann: The First 2012er to Get Koch Cash
— By Andy Kroll| Fri Jul. 15, 2011 7:50 AM PDT


The billionaire Koch brothers, Charles and David, spread their money far and wide. They fund free-market think tanks, right-leaning academic organizations, and conservative political advocacy groups, such as the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, which helped cultivate the tea party. The political action committee for the Kochs' massive conglomerate, Koch Industries, has also given generously to big-name conservative politicians throughout the country at both the federal and state level. But when it comes to the 2012 presidential race, the Kochs have been more selective with their giving, with only one presidential candidate so far benefitting from their largesse: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).

In late May, KochPAC, as Koch Industries' PAC is known, donated $10,000 in one day to Bachmann-linked committees—$5,000 to her 2012 congressional re-election committee and $5,000 to her political action committee, MICHELE PAC, according to the most recent records available. (That's short for Many Individual Conservatives Helping Elect Leaders Everywhere PAC.) The two checks weren't KochPAC's first contributions to Bachmann. According to federal campaign records, the committee has given $25,000 to the Minnesota congresswoman since 2006, excluding the May donation.

It's unclear whether KochPAC has also donated to Bachmann's presidential committee, which was created in June after she officially unveiled her candidacy. Her campaign has yet to report contributions and expenditures to the Federal Election Commission. But it is worth noting that Bachmann can, under FEC rules, transfer her congressional campaign funds into her presidential war chest, since she suspended her congressional fundraising operation last month. When Bachmann does reveal her latest fundraising haul, a large chunk of it is expected to come from her congressional campaign.

According to campaign records, Bachmann is the only Republican in the presidential race who has received any money from KochPAC in 2010 and 2011. In 2010, the committee did give $50,000 to Texans for Rick Perry, a PAC that supports Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry, who is flirting with the idea of a presidential run but has yet to decide. Indeed, the only other Republican candidate with a history of KochPAC support is hard-line former US senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. Between 1999 and 2005, federal records show, Santorum election committees received $16,000 from the committee.


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[ixion]

1. Bachmann Gets Koch

... good for her. :sarcasm:

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[Scottybeamer70]

15. LMAO

:rofl:

[Roci]

3. Don't blame her

she's just like anybody else during a long hot election summer of gutting the lives of poor folks and working people.
She's just having a Koch and a smile.

[Frisbee]

4. Why do the Kochs hate America???

Because as far as I can see, you'd pretty much have to to want Bachmann to be president of this country.

[ShockediSay]

5. Because they are Big Corporate Greed Money Selfish Billionaires

that don't want to give up their free lunch tax holiday the rest of us have been paying for over the past 10+ years.

This is why we lost so heavily in the past election, this and the two neo-fascist lying under oath Supreme Court Justices that turned loose corporate money to essentially buy the election for these purposes.

And because they don't want "Big Government" getting in the way of Big Corporate raping and murdering the people of our nation.

[Astraea]

6. I thought the rich were supposed to be

supposed to be superior to the rest of us who aren't as smart and hard working and therefore don't have their kind of wealth...

And then they give their money to the dumbest, most unelectable of all the GOP candidates! Guess you can have tons of $$$ and still be incredibly stoopid.

[RevStPatrick]

12. They ARE smart.

What they are buying here is distraction.
They know damn well that she'll never get elected.
They also know that, like her sister Sarah, she will eat up the news cycle, distracting us yet again from the rape of the nation they are committing.

It's actually a pretty cheap and shrewd investment on their part...

[Blue Owl]

7. KOCH WHORE

KOCH BROS: Jump!

MICHELE BACHMANN: How high, sirs?

Does Michele Bachmann have even a remote clue of what we the people want?

Because I don't think she has a freakin' clue and she looks scared shitless and out of her league everytime I see her.

How did it ever get to the point where Michele Bachmann is running for president? HOW?

[oldbanjo]

9. Because non of the men have balls.

[gpopple]

8. I am completely shocked at this.

Oh wait, no I'm not.

[Plucketeer]

10. I wonder.....

if she has carpet rash on her knees?

[AsahinaKimi]

11. I guess not only are they Evil but they are Stupid as well...

Donating to Bachmann's campaign? That's like throwing a ton of money on a Race Horse that's a 500 to 1 shot.

[Yon_Yonson]

13. Watch: Attack of the Kochtopus! Video

http://motherjones.com/media/2011/02/zina-saunders-koch-brothers-cartoon

[glinda]

14. Pretty sure they have been behind her at all times. She gets tons of

money and it isn't totally trackable. Although she is chummy with the Chamber of Horrors.
Think of her as ignorant, mean but able to navigate (or lie) as well as a total shill for the Koch's and every racist backwards viewpoint ever.
She is a monster.If you think Palin is stupid and bad times it by 5.

[0rganism]

16. perhaps it's Rep. Kochmann now?

Or if you think 2 letters is overstating their investment, Kachmann.

[CBHagman]

17. Time for great big picket signs.

Everywhere she goes, there ought to be a welcoming committee of signs reading BACHMANN BOUGHT BY THE BILLIONAIRES or BACHMANN: BROUGHT TO YOU BUY BIG OIL or BACHMANN: BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY BILLIONAIRE BROTHERS or BACHMANN: BECAUSE PARANOID PLUTOCRATS NEED A VOICE.

On edit: BACHMANN: BROUGHT TO YOU BY KOCH KASH has a certain ring to it too.

[Bozita]

18. KOCH ADDICT

[Yon_Yonson]

19. Bachmann is an example of 'shit in, shit out'!