Koch Seminar Building: Booz Allen Hamilton Room
In case you are ever in Aspen:
http://www.conciergeguide.com/group-planner/venues/search-by-group-size/643-koch-seminar-building-booz-allen-hamilton-room
Exclusive Audio: Inside the Koch Brothers' Secret Seminar
A close-up view of the oil billionaires' dark-money fundraiser and 2012 strategy session.
—By Brad Friedman
| Tue Sep. 6, 2011 3:00 AM PDT
Don't miss Gavin Aronsen's breakdown of the Kochs' million-dollar donor club.
Don't forget to check out Part 2 of this report, on the GOP superstar who rocked the Koch seminar crowd.
"We have Saddam Hussein," declared billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, apparently referring to President Barack Obama as he welcomed hundreds of wealthy guests to the latest of the secret fundraising and strategy seminars he and his brother ....
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According to an agenda (PDF) for an earlier Koch seminar (Aspen, 2010) that accompanied the leaked invitation, previous Koch seminars have featured "such notable leaders" as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, Sens. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), and Reps. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.). Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas also have attended.
Several GOP governors made it to the Vail seminar in June, among them Florida's Rick Scott, Virginia's Robert McDonnell, and White House hopeful Rick Perry of Texas. News of the event slipped out after McDonnell put the trip on his weekend schedule; neither Perry nor Scott initially disclosed the trip to their constituents. A Perry spokesman acknowledged his attendance only after the Austin American-Statesman tracked the tail number of a plane belonging to one of the governor's top donors from Texas to Colorado. He described the summit as a "private gathering of business leaders."
Full article:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brothers-seminar-tapes
