Koch Industries Backing Bachmann For President

[marmar]

Koch Industries Backing Bachmann For President


This post originally appeared at death + taxes.

With a combined total of $35 million in campaign funds, Republican presidential candidates are still falling behind President Obama’s whopping $86 million fundraising haul, a deficit that no doubt has some campaign managers stressed about their financial futures.

Michele Bachmann, however, need not worry, because the Minnesota Representative is the only declared presidential candidate to have received a fiduciary blessing from the GOP’s current financial kingmakers, Charles and David Koch.

According to Koch Industries’ FEC files, the company’s political action committee has already donated $5,000 to Bachmann’s presidential primary bid, suggesting that pundits, including myself, may be wrong about the Republican’s odds of wooing elite insiders who are jittery over such a radically fundamentalist candidate. ................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/634413/koch_industries_backing_bachmann_for_president/

[Buns_of_Fire]

1. Kooks of a feather, and all that. nt

[physioex]

3. Yep....

The funny thing is I don't think Faux News is behind her. Seems like there is some sort of rift between the corporate elitists.

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[hobbit709]

4. Useful idiot.

[Angry Dragon]

5. $5,000 is chump change to the kocks

[FormerDittoHead]

10. Yes. Lunch money. The BIG money will be 3rd party campaigning. (Citizen's United) n/t

[SpiralHawk]

6. Billionaires jerking the FreeperBagger (R) strings. What suckers the republicons are

And what rage the SUCKERED republicons will have if and when they ever wake up and realize how they have been shamelessly manipulated and suckered.

[polmaven]

7. Well, don't they just

have Chootspah galore to do this soe early??? By early, I mean before they heard her say "chootsbah".

[HughBeaumont]

8. Wow, that's some money well wasted.

Yeah, because if I have a functioning brain stem and I'M voting for anyone in this country, it's going to be a batshit insane, homophobic, immature, hard-question-avoiding, logic-challenged, intolerant, know-nothing FUCK-UP MORON like Michele Bachmann. Yerp, that's going to fly like a lead balloon.

[highplainsdem]

9. So the Kochs would like her as their puppet? If they were smart, they'd pick someone with more

chance of winning.

Of course, if they were smart they wouldn't hold the political views they hold, or do the things they do.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Surprise, surprise.