“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Recently the billionaire Koch brothers launched a public relations drive to show that they are good guys, just like you and me. They even allowed a few reporters to attend their usually super-secret meeting with donors at a luxurious place in California. But they were not allowed to reveal the names of the donors. Forget the fact that they plan to spend nearly a billion dollars on the 2016 Presidential race. Like you and me.
The intrepid Lee Fang reports on that meeting and how it relates to the Koch PR makeover.
Fang writes:
“Billionaire conservative activist Charles Koch on Sunday likened his political efforts to the struggles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass, saying that “we, too, are seeking to right injustices that are holding our country back.”
“We know this because Politico and the Washington Post were allowed to attend Charles and David Koch’s fundraiser at…
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