Koch Bros. and the Tribune

[TeyshaBlue]

Just effin' great. Guess who I work for? http://homerecording.com/bbs/images/smilies/facepalm.gif

Conservative Koch Brothers Turning Focus to Newspapers
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/business/media/koch-brothers-making-play-for-tribunes-newspapers.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

LA Times is thrilled.
If Koch Brothers Buy LA Times, Half of Staff May Quit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-miles/koch-brothers-la-times_b_3180391.html

[clambake]

what are you doin here. shouldn't you be hacking emails and running bachman's bath water?

[TeyshaBlue]

Bachman bathes in 93 octane, n00b.

[clambake]

you bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

The thing I will never understand about people like the Koch Brothers is having more money than your family 10 generations from now will need but still doing everything you possibly can to accumulate more wealth at the expense of others. iirc they're both in their late 70s and early 80s, most normal people who aren't completely obsessed with wealth would want to relax by then.

[Drachen]

The thing I will never understand about people like the Koch Brothers is having more money than your family 10 generations from now will need but still doing everything you possibly can to accumulate more wealth at the expense of others. iirc they're both in their late 70s and early 80s, most normal people who aren't completely obsessed with wealth would want to relax by then.

Stupid warren buffett

[boutons_deux]

File under VRWC

Koch Brothers Plan More Political Involvement for Their Conservative Network
As the country’s leading conservative donors finished off plates of roast lamb and spaetzle in a Palm Springs, Calif., hotel ballroom on Monday, Charles G. Koch (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/k/charles_g_koch/index.html?inline=nyt-per) delivered a pep talk.

The November elections had been a major setback for the cause of liberty, Mr. Koch told the more than 200 guests, many of whom had pumped millions of dollars into the political operation founded by Mr. Koch and his brother David. But there would be no backing down, Mr. Koch said, according to some of those attending. They would learn from their mistakes, test new strategies in the coming months and prepare for the 2014 elections, with control of Congress once again at stake.

As the Republican Party grapples with implications of its historic losses last fall, a similar reckoning is unfolding among the deep-pocketed conservatives whose “super PACs (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/c/campaign_finance/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier)” and other organizations spent heavily to defeat President Obama and the Democrats in 2012. Nowhere is the self-examination more unrelenting than within the constellation of advocacy groups, foundations and research organizations nurtured by the Kochs.

“They took this defeat pretty hard and pretty self-critically — which is always a good sign of a vital organization,” said Jack Schuler, a Chicago-area philanthropist and entrepreneur who has been involved in some of the discussions. “I think the dollars will flow if we get a sense that there’s a formula that’s going to work. They don’t like to fund losing causes. The attitude is: Show me this new approach is going to work.”

While awaiting an internal audit headed by a top Koch Industries executive, the brothers have rejected any notion of stepping back from electoral politics. Strikingly, after years of nurturing a political network and donor base largely independent from traditional Republican circles, the Kochs are planning to substantially increase their involvement in party affairs.

They have not yet decided whether to intervene in Republican primaries, people involved in the discussions say. But the brothers want their network to play a bigger role in cultivating and promoting Republican candidates who hew to their vision of conservatism, emphasizing smaller government and deregulation more than immigration (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/i/immigration_and_refugees/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier) and social issues. They are also seeking closer control over groups within their network, purging or downgrading those that did not deliver last year and expanding financing for those that performed well.

“After the 2012 election, we took a long, hard look at the effectiveness of the organizations we support — what they did well, what worked and areas where we can be more effective,” said Robert A. Tappan, a Koch spokesman. “This past weekend’s gathering was an opportunity to share the lessons learned from 2012.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/us/politics/koch-brothers-plan-more-political-involvement-for-their-conservative-network.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

Kock suckers planning for the 1% to suck up every last penny and fuck over Human-Americans and the environment in their Class Warfare on the 99%.

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Uh, print is dying. Throw all the money you want at it, Marley Brothers. :lol Guess who still reads newspapers? Mostly people who already vote GOP. Outreach fail.

[baseline bum]

That'll be great to have a nation full of New York Posts.

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That'll be great to have a nation full of New York Posts.

I figure they won't stop with print, but expand into local TV