{"id":12570,"date":"2010-09-23T18:49:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T18:49:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-23T18:49:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T18:49:58","slug":"fiorina-joins-the-kochheads-kaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/23\/fiorina-joins-the-kochheads-kaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiorina Joins the Koch-heads. Ka-Ching!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a name that’s becoming as ubiquitous in dirty oil politics  as Coke cans are in greasy spoons. And it’s pronounced like the soft drink, but spelled Koch. Koch-heads now on the radar include Carly Fiorina, the Tea Party and Proposition 23.<\/p>\n

<\/a>There’s a name  that’s becoming as ubiquitous in dirty oil politics as Coke cans are in greasy spoons. And it’s pronounced like the soft drink, but spelled Koch.<\/p>\n

The New Yorker definitively exposed<\/a> the gas and oil tycoons known as the Koch brothers. But who are the latest Koch-heads to wear the brand with pride?<\/p>\n

\u2022   Carly Fiorina
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\u2022   The Tea Party
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\u2022   The Proposition 23 campaign<\/p>\n

Fiorina:<\/strong> The California Senate candidate recently aligned herself with the dirty-energy brothers by ramping up her courtship of the Tea Party in Northern California<\/a> and the Central Valley<\/a>. She also just gave a  mealymouthed endorsement<\/a> of Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative aimed at killing the state’s climate-change law, known as AB32.<\/p>\n

In return, Fiorina is getting some ka-ching from Koch Industries. The company is listed as a host <\/a>of a  fund-raiser for her at Republican senatorial campaign headquarters in D.C. tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Tea Party: <\/strong>The recent New Yorker expos\u00e9<\/a> by Jane Mayer put David and Charles Koch on the political map by uncovering their early and continued funding of Tea Party organizations. In fact, the piece makes a good case that the Kochs invented the Tea Party movement.<\/p>\n

Proposition 23:<\/strong> The Kochs’ $1 million contribution to the Prop 23 campaign aligns with their oil interests, and their ferocious denial of global warming. They’re longtime and usually unnamed funders of the climate-change denial<\/a> industry, according to a Greenpeace report a few months ago.<\/p>\n

All of this helps explain why Tea Partiers were out the other day <\/a>supporting poor little Valero, the Texas company (and owner of two of California’s dirtiest oil refineries) that’s the top funder of Proposition 23.<\/p>\n

So the Koch-heads among us are now visible, even if it isn’t always stamped on their foreheads.<\/p>\n

———————–<\/p>\n

Posted by Judy Dugan, research director for Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to providing an effective voice for taxpayers and consumers in an era when special interests dominate public discourse, government and politics. Visit us on Facebook<\/a> and Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a name that’s becoming as ubiquitous in dirty oil politics  as Coke cans are in greasy spoons. And it’s pronounced like the soft drink, but spelled Koch. Koch-heads now on the radar include Carly Fiorina, the Tea Party and Proposition 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[8828,9250,9315,879,9130,7109],"class_list":["post-12570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-8828","tag-9250","tag-9315","tag-879","tag-9130","tag-7109"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3gK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}