Koch Industries: We Don't Fund Tea Parties (Except For The Tea Parties We Fund)
Justin Elliott | April 15, 2010, 9:48AM
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/right-wing_backers_koch_industries_we_dont_specifi.php

Koch Industries, a major backer of myriad right-wing causes, issued an unsolicited statement last night in advance of Tax Day claiming it has never provided funding "specifically to support the tea parties." But when TPMmuckraker followed up, a spokeswoman acknowledged that Koch funds one of the most prominent national groups that organizes ... tea parties.

"Because you have covered tea parties in the past and we imagine you will cover tomorrow's Tax Day Tea Party in DC, we want to reiterate some important facts," wrote Melissa Cohlmia, the company's director of communication, in the email Wednesday evening.

"Koch companies value free speech and believe it is good to have more Americans engaged in key policy issues. That said, Koch companies, the Koch foundations, Charles Koch and David Koch have no ties to and have never given money to FreedomWorks. In addition, no funding has been provided by Koch companies, the Koch foundations, Charles Koch or David Koch specifically to support the tea parties. Thanks for your consideration."

Now, it's well known that Kansas-based Koch, one of the largest private companies in the world, with a hand in everything from chemical production to commodity trading, and associated foundations plow millions into right-wing causes including climate change denial and pro-corporate economics research.

Another of Koch's beneficiaries is Americans for Prosperity, which was founded in part by the company's Executive Vice President, David Koch. He is currently the chairman of the board of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation.

AFP, based in Washington, has been a key organizer of many tea party events, including Tax Day Tea Party rallies in at least nine states today. (Indeed, we last encountered AFP when a man holding an "I Am AFP!" sign at an Ohio tea party protest berated a pro-health reform rallier who is disabled by Parkinson's.)

AFP's North Carolina branch has a Web site called www.nctaxdayteaparty.com that encourages supporters to "contact Americans for Prosperity-NC with questions about throwing a Tea Party in your town! We are here to help you have a great success!"

In an interview this morning, Cohlmia confirmed Koch's role backing AFP. Asking how that squares with the statement that Koch not provide funding "specifically to support the tea parties," Cohlmia said "the statement stands."

She said the unsolicited statement was prompted because, "we've had a number of people who have indicated Koch is funding and orchestrating tea parties."

A spokeswoman for Americans for Prosperity directed inquiries back to Koch Industries.

(This post has been updated since it was published. Thanks to TPM Reader AL for the tip on the North Carolina AFP branch.)

Andrew Breitbart, the employer of the FAKE ACORN PIMP (convicted federal criminal) James O'Keefe, has this vague threat posted on their website...

Friday Free-For-All: Crasher Edition
by Publius

The “Tea Party Crashers“, bless their hearts, think that if they publicly announce they are going to infiltrate tea party rallies with outrageous signs they will be able to…we don’t know…make people like ObamaCare? Convince people to pay more in taxes? It is all very confusing, but the leftist mind has never suffered from an overabundance of clarity. Well, the good people of the Central Texas 9-12 Project know exactly how to handle these “crashers”. Consider yourselves advised.

Tea Party Crash fizzles out
Tags: Health Care Reform, Washington D.C., Tea Party, IRS, Tea Party Express
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35901.html

After several days of hype and hand-wringing about liberal plans to infiltrate Thursday’s tea party rallies, the great 2010 Tax Day Tea Party Crash did not produce much of a bang in Washington.

... The group that organized the Thursday evening rally, the small-government non-profit FreedomWorks had devised plans to deal with any infiltrators who mixed among the crowd and expressed racist, homophobic, threatening or otherwise offensive rhetoric through chants, signs or t-shirts. FreedomWorks distributed signs reading “Leftist Infiltrator” to be used to identify alleged impostors and FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe urged the thousands who gathered for the evening event to take photos of offenders to be posted online to embarrass them.

... And a group of five American University students, who were on average probably at least 25 years younger than most attendees at the FreedomWorks rally, waded through the crowd with signs ranging from the direct and challenging (“Embrace the state”) to the satirical (“I have a sign” and “Loud noises”) to the malapropically mocking (“No $ 4 educatoin. I don’t wnt it”).

“We’re really just more protesting for the sake of humor,” said Thomas Bollerman, 19, of Ridgefield, Conn., who identified himself and his cohorts as part of a Protest Club at American.

Plenty of rally attendees weren’t amused. The protest club was repeatedly photographed (per Kibbe’s instructions), but also peppered with shouts including “Grow up” and “Get out of here.” And one man wearing an Albany Tea Party shirt and a long braided gray ponytail, who identified himself only as “Spider,” menacingly followed them through the crowd.

“I have a problem with you pretending to be one of us,” he told Bollerman’s crew, his voice quivering with anger, after they made a beeline for a cluster of police vehicles.

When Spider parted company with the infiltrators, Bollerman conceded he was frightened. “I’m still kind sweating and nervous,” he said.

Tea Party Crasher Says He's Innocent, Offers Up Site For Sale

Tea Party Crasher Says He's Innocent, Offers Up Site For Sale
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/tea-party-crasher-says-hes-innocent-offers-up-site-for-sale.php?ref=mp

Jason Levin, the middle school teacher behind the Crash The Tea Party project, is dismissing claims that he misused his position to organize the scheme.

Levin is currently on a paid leave from the Beaverton, Oregon school district where he works while school officials investigate charges that he used school time and equipment to create the website CrashTheTeaParty.org. He told me his attorneys have advised him not to do any interviews while the investigation runs its course. But in a written statement he emailed me this morning, Levin said the charges are without merit.

"Any allegation that I used school district equipment or district time to create or maintain the website is completely and totally false," Levin wrote. ...

... "One more thing," he wrote in his email this morning. "I'm willing to sell crashtheteaparty.org if anyone is interested."

Dept. of leftist infiltrators

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0410/Dept_of_leftist_infiltrators.html?showall



Victory over the crashers
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/04/victory_over_the_crashers.html
Washington Post (blog) - David Weigel - ‎1 hour ago‎

CrashtheTeaParty set up the pins. Conservative bloggers knocked them down. Tales of hardy tea party activists scaring interlopers out of their rallies are all over the Web today. Moe Lane declares victory, as does Michelle Malkin, who passes on photos and this update on the fate of CrashtheTeaParty founder Jason Levin:

A state board will investigate whether a Beaverton teacher was on his own time or using state resources while he organized liberals to crash Oregon tea parties.

On Thursday, Jason Levin was put on paid leave by the Beaverton School District.

I didn't think conservatives could locate a less fearsome bogeyman than ACORN, but then came Levin. Like "the Yes Men" with full frontal lobotomies.

SELF-DESTRUCTING: 'Tea party' vs. opponents

'Tea party' vs. opponents: 'Low-grade civil war' on tax day?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0415/Tea-party-vs.-opponents-Low-grade-civil-war-on-tax-day

Tensions are rising between tea party supporters and liberal activists as tax-day protests get under way. More likely than violence, though, is debate about what the phrase ‘real American’ means.

Koch Industries Criminal Gang "Tea Party" attacks Oregon School Teacher.

Koch Industries Criminal Gang "Tea Party" attacks Oregon School Teacher.

Convicted ORGANIZED CRIME LORDS of Koch Industries, the PUPPETMASTERS behind the faked Tea Parties, have orchestrated an attack upon an Oregon school teacher to Suppress his FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS to carry signs at Tea Party Rallies.

Killer David H. Koch (killed Dawn Smalley, look it up on google) founded the Tea Party fake grassroots puppets under his funded crime front organizations FREEDOMWORKS and "AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY".

Using volunteer and paid spammers, teacher Jason Levin has been assaulted by criminal attacks.

'Crash the Tea Party' organizer is threatened
http://www.ktvz.com/Global/story.asp?S=12309518
Associated Press - April 14, 2010 11:25 AM ET

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A group planning to crash the Tea Party on tax day is led by an Oregon teacher, who has been threatened since his picture and personal phone number were posted on the Internet.

Beaverton Middle School teacher Jason Levin's group wants to infiltrate the Tea Party to discredit the organization. But since Levin's name has been associated with the "Crash the Tea Party" Web site, he has been harassed by people who say they belong to that group.

Levin told KATU-TV that his phone has been ringing around the clock and his answering machine is recording threats.

Tea Party members have accused him of doing his political work during school hours, but Levin and the school district say his activism has happened on his own time.

Information from: KATU-TV, http://www.katu.com/

Will Tea Party candidate help Grayson?

Will Tea Party candidate help Grayson?
http://wdbo.com/localnews/2010/03/will-tea-party-candidate-help.html

Peg Dunmire is now on the ballot for November.

Could a grandmother throwing a Tea Party make sure Alan Grayson is reelected? Peg Dunmire has gone from Republican stuck in a crowded primary to Tea Party candidate on the November ballot, and she isn't looking back at her decades as a Republican.

"I think we've really had about 15 years of a disconnect with the populace and the people we send to Washington."

She goes from just another Republican trying to make a name for herself, to on the November ballot as the first Florida Tea Party candidate. I asked party head Fred O'Neal if they could split the vote and send Alan Grayson back. I got bravado.

"The decision is going to be the decision the Republican Party candidate is going to have to make, as to whether to stay in the race or whether to drop out and support Peg."

Tea Party Cannibals Eating Themselves.

Tea Party Cannibals Eating Themselves.

Court to hear suit over "Tea Party" name
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63D3TU20100414

(Reuters) - A U.S. judge has agreed to referee a dispute among Florida political activists over who can use the phrase "Tea Party" in their name.

5 things to know about the tea party movement
By The Associated Press (AP) – Apr 5, 2010 (author cloaked in secrecy)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i5qMAK36nfH2pIONWjcZQZMg23XgD9ESONU80

1. THERE ISN'T ONE ACTUAL "TEA PARTY," AND THERE MIGHT NEVER BE

Fred O'Neal founded the Tea Party in Florida, a state-recognized political party that has a candidate on the 2010 ballot to challenge a Democratic member of the U.S. House. He now faces a lawsuit filed by fellow tea party activists.

"There's been a steady campaign to try to drive a wedge between the Tea Party and the other people in the tea party movement," O'Neal said. "They're trying to basically discredit what we're doing."

Fla.'s Tea Party, tea party movement not the same
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON, AP Political Writer
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/04/1562869/flas-tea-party-tea-party-movement.html

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Florida has a Tea Party and a tea party movement, and no, they are not the same thing.

I'm NOT Saying that Sarah Palin is an Adulteress Whore...

I'm NOT Saying that Sarah Palin is an Adulteress Whore...

... NATIONAL ENQUIRER IS!!!!



http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/65481

In a world exclusive The NATIONAL ENQUIRER names GOP VP Candidate Sarah Palin's secret lover!

No less than three members of the man’s family including one by sworn affidavit have claimed that Sarah Palin engaged in an extramarital affair with hus­band Todd’s former business partner, Brad Hanson.

Waterboarding: Good Enough for Bush, Good Enough for All.

Waterboarding Bush Photo

TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK from the corporate thieves.

Quote: ""....as the man who saved the Supreme Court from the troglodytes."....how about saving the US Constitution instead?"

For a start we could hang for TREASON any judge giving citizen rights to NON-CITIZENS, such as corporations which are merely legal fictions created by laws and SUPPOSED TO BE CONTROLLED BY LAWS.

No corporation can go to jail if it commits a crime proving that it has no personhood, so even dumbazz ReTHUGlicans can't be so stupid that they believe that corporations have any more "free speech" than the law which creates them gives to them".

Nine nooses and a gallows is not a high price to TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK from the corporate thieves. Nobody is higher than the constitution, not even nine drag-queens in frumpy black frocks.

Southern Strategy: Drive the KKK Right Into ReTHUG-Tea Party

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party method of winning Southern states in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century by exploiting opposition among the once segregationist South to the cultural upheaval of New Left, Vietnam protests, the hippie culture, gun control, abortion and to desegregation and the Civil Rights and Women's movements.

... "From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don't need any more than that... but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That's where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats."

Drowning America in a Bathtub: The Republican Doctrine

LIKE President Gay Georgie Bush drowned that colored city in the bathtub...




http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/g/f/norquist_bathtub.jpg


Drowning America in a Bathtub: The Republican Doctrine
www.culturekitchen.com/mole333/blog/drowning_america_in_a_bathtub_the_gingrich_doct
Grover Norquist, one of the darlings of the extreme rightwing, Gingrich/Bush/McCain branch of the Republican party, once said, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." This statement has been the basis of Republican policy.

TURNING AMERICA INTO SOMALIA

UNIONS ARE GOOD, RETHUGS BAD!

UNIONS ARE GOOD, RETHUGS BAD!

Quote: "Now, how is Browns connection to organized labor NOT a conflict of interest?"

Because UNIONS do GOOD things and Wall Street is predatory vampirism on the rest of society.

UNIONS gave you the 12 hour Workday.
President Gay Georgie Bush's greatgramps Sam Bush worked his men 12 hours EVERY DAY!

UNIONS gave you the 5-day workweek.
President Gay Georgie Bush's greatgramps Sam Bush worked his men 7 DAYS EVERY WEEK.

UNIONS gave you Holidays like Christmas, New Years, 4th of July.
President Gay Georgie Bush's greatgramps Sam Bush worked his men 365 DAYS A YEAR FOREVER UNTIL THEY DROPPED DEAD!

UNIONS gave you Employer-Provided Health Insurance plans.
President Gay Georgie Bush's greatgramps Sam Bush worked his men to death on the shop floor.

Goldman-Sachs gave you a trillion dollars of bailout debt.

SEE THE DIFFERENCE. The people FIGHTING FOR GOLDMAN-SACHS were fighting AGAINST healthcare for infants as recently as LAST MONTH!

Tea Party Militia Terrorists

Skinheads, Neo-Nazis, KKK Against Anything Obama

Don't forget they are still out there in large numbers.

More than willing to fan the flames...


http://truthiest.blogspot.com/2009/08/shinhead-neo-nazi-kkk-against-anything.html