Americans for Prosperity is the
tax-exempt a conservative political
organisation set up by David and Charles
Koch
and they've been very active spending a
lot of money to influence elections
around the country
they've been very active in their
getting more active we've got a chart
for you
about how much they've been spent
another series yet to reach our day
in just 2012 they spend a hundred and
twenty two million dollars influencing
elections around the country
and that is more than from 2004 through
2011
and so it is just been ramping up in the
wake of Citizens United
so look citizens united it
isn't the thing that corrupted our
politics who's already massive leak
right before citizens united
and the decisions that made that happen
we're back in the late nineteen
seventies
where we decided money was speech in the
corporation's
we're human beings and they could spend
money to buy our politicians
but citizens united as a said from the
first day the decision on
put that money in politics that have
been corrupting in corroding our system
of government in our democracy
put it on steroids so now
the Koch brothers who used to spend tens
a million dollars corrupting our
politics
spent hundreds of millions of dollars
corrupting our politics you know
Wes you were saying before sure what the
hell they spend all that on
so you have a way to $35 million trying
to beat Obama and they didn't write
they spent a lot of money trying to beat
Tammy Baldwin Wisconsin and they did
but they're down at the micro level
there
their work and their spending money on
school board's
because they believe in privatizing
education profiting off with that in
making sure the
kids the public's closed-door like I
their unbelievable what did you know
Democrats in the 2012 election got what
two million more votes in congress than
Republicans alike that
million-and-a-half some like that
on and we had no chance to take back the
house not
I and I don't know about the chances
minimal
in 2014 August within the realm of
possibility if they've shut down the
government again err
but and the Koch brothers have spent the
money
there they did it in arkansas this year
and for the first time since
reconstruction republicans took over the
steady state legislature in arkansas in
states that are
been all over the map have dramatically
changed
a all over the map that are that are
split state or your blue states we have
somehow state legislatures controlled by
Republicans
and then they redraw the map and then we
can win back the house in 2014 or 2016
and 2018
in Ohio we discovered it yesterday on
the Jimmy Dore show a podcast will be up
soon
that you know a I'm sure you guys to
talk about it there sixty members of
Congress from a while
and 12 the republicans 12 it Ohio
it's a blues it's a blue Ford marcy
kaptur to show one thing that's wrong
with and add to those are members the
Congressional Black Caucus because the
Republican I would give their feet away
will give those feet away and we'll take
every other scene it's urgent
at it so smart and yet so dangerous
the democrats play along while ago
democrats raise for closely play-along
and Marcy Kaptur talk about how I was a
50-50 state which also drove me crazy
cuz I'm like
we wanted to bring years go cold turkey
fixed waco to do we want it
where more democrat or a while there are
probably the boat over Braga wild about
twice
they were brought Obama and they voted
for bill clinton they probably gone six
the last eight elections
for democrats and yet somehow 12 and 16
seats
are republicans and that's where the
trees and after the Koch brothers about
we we need not only to get as much money
out of politics as possible through an
amendment like Wolfpack is pushing for
but at least whether we get that or even
if we can't get that we need
independent control love the boards that
are doing the redistricting
mean there's very limited
experimentation in the US that's our
thing but it should be nonpartisan
I know that's incredibly hard to set up
in cannot allow people
with a vested career interest in how
these lines are drawn to be doing the
drawing the line never met II
covered politics and and South Carolina
at a little bit and
I ruler I know there are some smart
state legislatures
a state legislators about what like I
I have a night like I am constantly
struck by how damage or try to these
people are
and their redraw the maps for the whole
country they're doing
in many ways the stabilities are using
it very advanced block by block computer
modeling simulation program anyways
these are more important decisions then
then because then the year then your
congress a set and you just get your
louie Gohmert senior
and your Paul Ryan's to go out and do
whatever the hell you want well
limited to remove encouraging and more
depressing so encouraging is
I actually have met smart well state
legislators cuz the Wolfpack we go and
talk to them and center I and there's
and there's good guys
and there's really smart as the sea
level but here's the kicker is
discouraging part
they use the kansas coach COO so how
they spend their money
well cases already republican and
they're largely Carlos
was a republican by the Koch brothers
thought not good enough
they're not crazy enough they had
organize a coup with a spent a
tremendous amount of money amo state
legislature seats
any throughout the work so-called
moderate kansas republican's
and put it extreme Koch backed
Republican lottery Kansas you're exactly
right
so wanna be a room with a moderate and
here were so
so the reality is were you were in a
race against time
right because with citizens united in
the fact that it's now
you know money on steroids they're going
to buy up
like before they bought up the national
elections that was that ship has sailed
National Congress have no hope it s why
recent poll out
in now gallup a hazard at nine percent
approval rating for Congress
the lowest the gallup has ever measured
it ever
that so that's gone but what they're
doing is slowly
going up and buying state legislatures
so we gotta do what a man made before
they buy em all up
always been bought because the most in
most states its
the local utility company has been
around for several years the Bison
but I guess what the Koch brothers are
all tied it at Yahoo that it's a
different
you know that congress' at nine percent
it harder to influence a national
election
because even if you can overwhelm them
with money the other side got money
tip the other side but at some point at
the state level like what they did in
arkansas what they didn't ans
you think these Republican legislators
Kansas or comfortable and
named feeding the gear their corporate
suitors is because of it as they please
but they were totally out they don't
know what have all the sudden I gotta
powers got
670 bottom dollar and they put
billboards over the like a weather radio
edit my district what am I supposed to
do
yet it it was immediate on there the
Koch brothers Mark
I think just as long as we're gonna shit
all over the Koch brothers
you know lick my prom with them is Paul
the global warming
climate change denial that comes out of
the house feel like
free speech great but we should maybe
pass a bill just a little small though
so it's like
if in 50 years it really heats up to two
more all
you know get on the darker getting a
bunker you get to stay outside
year later you don't get the water you
kids don't
grandchildren don't because whenever
electronic had wide so hot everybody
starving
forthright the Koch brothers stop this
from doing anything about it for twenty
years straight win we
might be able to change our ways and so
we talk about the national elections the
state legislation
state legislature elections I just
thought today and this is
we've sort of been hearing about this
but that one other things alec is
starting to do nationwide
is up buying two not repeal but amend
basically the 17th amendment as the
ideal would be state legislatures would
be a would be allowed to vote to put up
a candidate against the major party
candidates
so it gets added another help a brother
so soon is right election direct
their room today wanna senator know this
is the insanity
quadruple they wanna roll bank direct
election of senators
okay like the the think know like we've
been killing democracy in
it would be killing them softly hurt
women kill a man all these eighteen
different ways
not good enough let's just start gone
after the main artery
right so we you will not be able to
elect your senators anymore
we meet step aside the we're going to
have another game like that because I i
rly still have some instinct for when
I know what they're trying to do what
work like instinctively
that were repulsed people the key thing
that they do here's a nobody knows about
me
like don't know about that attention I
peeps right people pay ten your new ways
digital
the amount of money being thrown into
order our control legislative race
nobody did you would have the money to
match it you can get your message out
the Cobras are buying election right
road here you go i feel like i cant over
a board meeting in with oil
you know right no no I think it's lunacy
and then they got some libertarians to
go along with them
yeah like how was it a libertarian thing
to let Ubuntu
political bosses the side who's going to
be the next senator
originally plant Jack original intent
will that's why we have amendments
now you know what was in the original
tat amendments
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