Carly Fiorina Agenda Bought and Paid by By Crazy Right-wing Billionaires
David and Charles Koch are the oil and gas tycoons sponsoring a fundraiser for US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina at the Republican Senatorial headquarters in Washington, DC on Thursday.At least Carly's loyalties are obvious. As a senator - like most of the Republican party - will simply call all the special interests she he hostage too and ask them how she should vote. This is the grand old tradition of conservatism - the ones who are going to bring change to Washington.
The oil bros influence over the development of the Tea Party and GOP politics for decades was exposed recently in The New Yorker. The Koch brothers' story is a frightening tale about how a stealth power grab by right wingers can develop a populist face for a corporate establishment movement.
Is it any wonder that Fiorina, the California US Senate candidate challenging Barbara Boxer, endorsed Proposition 23, the repeal of the state's landmark greenhouse gas emissions caps also financed by a cool million from the Koch brothers.
The Koch addiction is becoming a household brand in dirty politics in America. The family's money is fueling the new threat of a return to Reagan-Bush deregulation at the heart of the Tea Party's agenda.
It's high time those with the Koch Addiction wore the brand on their forehead. This family's got one thing in mind -- turning the reins of government over to those who would turn back the clock on government regulation of polluters by decades.
Readjust Fiorina's misdirected finger
Dear Carly Fiorina: The blame game: falsely placing guilt on your opponent for an act one does not commit is deceitful if not outright shameful.
Before coming to Glendale and using the New Horizons day care center as an example of wasted federal funds (“Senate candidate slams local project,” Sept. 13), you should have done your homework and researched just what Maria Rochart, the nonprofit’s founder, has accomplished with low-income youth and their families. All of us should praise Rochart for attempting to build a “Children’s Village” child care facility. This is what the community really needs and desires.
Placing blame on Sen. Barbara Boxer for voting on the stimulus bill is deceptive and totally distracts from the real culprits for the failure of our economy. If you really wanted to point the finger at wasteful federal funds, you should have stood on the rooftop of Chase bank, the former Washington Mutual, and blamed Washington for the fraud and taxpayer bailout of our banking and financial system.
If that were not enough, you could have taken a ride to Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park and stood on the lawn and pointed out the graves of our patriotic and courageous, innocent youth who have traded their lives for the lies of Washington and the Pentagon, which have wasted trillions of taxpayer’s money on these wars.
Finally, to save yourself, you should encourage the City Council to save the child care center and continue to seek funds to build this much needed facility.
Most economists agree the stimulus ( Recovery Act) may have had it drawbacks but it did stop the country from falling into a catastrophic depression where unemployment would have been upwards of 15 to 16% instead of the current 9.5. Carly is typical of her those who worship Sarah Palin - they would rather the country fail than give credit to moderate Democrats for saving it from the damage left by eight years of Republican rule..
