I can't tell you how many times in the last month good republicans have
gone after me because I dared to disclose the truth about the KOCH Bros.
Misguided conservatives are all taken in at the idea the Kochs might
buy some big newspapers and they're singing the praises of their rich
'saviors'...they simply won't hear that the Kochs have ALWAYS been pro
amnesty....contributed hugely to Marco Rubio and hire GRover Norquist to
do their bidding.
The Norquist fraud group ATR got millions from the Kochs last year &
millions from Karl Roves' pac who gets money from the KOCHS. They're
for every 'free trade' , cheap labor agreement and same sex marriage.
What is it going to take to get the conservative base to look at
FACTS!??
Conservatives! YOU are your own worst enemy! CLEAN OUT YOUR OWN
MESS FIRST! Your conservative institutions/idols have been take over! They do not serve you! They have blood on their hands for facilitating this uncontrolled migration for decades!
WAKE THE HELL UP!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/10/Koch-Sponsors-Pro-Amnesty-BuzzFeed-Event
Koch Sponsors Pro-Amnesty BuzzFeed Event
An event touting itself as an evening of immigration
reform discussion with a "diversity of opinion" turns out to be slanted
heavily towards "comprehensive immigration reform." The BuzzFeed Brews Special Edition: Immigration Summit, sponsored
by the Charles Koch Institute, will take place Tuesday, May 14th from 6
PM - 8 PM Eastern Time. The Charles Koch Institute is an educational
offshoot of the Charles Koch Foundation.
It's an unusual pairing: BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith has a reputation for liberal bias (
he recently blamed "the right"
for conditions of Kermit Gosnell's abortion clinic) will be the
moderator; Charles Koch, founder of the libertarian CATO Institute, is
one of the people most reviled by the left.
The goal of the event is described as follows:
[W]e believe one of the best ways to turn conversations
into solutions is through the challenge of assumptions and exchange of
ideas. Our event on immigration aims to do just that by bringing
together a diversity of opinions for a thoughtful dialogue.
At first glance, the panel appears diverse: the six
invitees include a Democrat politician, a Republican politician, two
members of conservative organizations, one from a liberal
Hispanic/Latino organization, and one from a libertarian think tank.
Looking closer, however, five of the invitees are strongly
in favor of the comprehensive immigration reform/amnesty package being
put forward by the "Gang of Eight" in Congress. Only one guest--from The
Heritage Foundation--has been critical of the proposed immigration
reform package. Additionally, an illegal immigrant who is an
award-winning journalist will be assisting in broadcasting the event.
Here's the lineup:
Clarissa Martinez, Director of
Immigration & National Campaigns at National Council of La Raza:
NCLR has been funded by George Soros's Open Society Foundation,
describes itself as "the largest national Hispanic civil rights and
advocacy organization in the United States," and has been a major
supporter of the current immigration reform bill. La Raza and Ms.
Martinez
were directly involved in a controversial memo that
granted de facto amnesty by changing ICE policy in 2012. Ironically, La
Raza joined with the NAACP and other institutional left
to protest in front of the Koch Industries offices months ago, accusing the Kochs of savaging democracy.
Mario Lopez, President at Hispanic
Leadership Fund: The group describes itself as center-right and says its
mission is "strengthening working families by promoting common-sense
public policy solutions rooted in free enterprise, limited government,
and individual freedom." The group is strongly supportive of
"comprehensive immigration reform."
The advisory board of the
Hispanic Leadership Fund includes
Grover Norquist, who has been strongly critical of the recent Heritage
Foundation report that claims that the proposed 800+ page immigration
reform bill will have a long-term cost of over $6 trillion. Lopez was
involved in what some are calling a "
smear of immigration hawks"
when he launched a guilt-by-association attack on Mark Krikorian of the
Center for Immigration Studies for supposedly not sharing conservative
policy goals.
Joaquin Castro: A freshman Democrat
congressman from Texas and the twin brother of San Antonio Mayor Julian
Castro, the keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.
Their mother, Maria "Rosie" Castro, was a community organizer and
helped found the socialist, anti-Anglo political group La Raza Unidas (The Race United),
whose goal is
the "the Liberation of Aztlan, and that Aztlan is composed of five
southwestern states; California, Arizona, Nuevo Mexico, Tejas and
Colorado." Joaquin has done a number of talk show appearances and
has been described as "the unofficial ambassador on immigration for the Obama Administration."
Luis G. Fortuño, former Governor of Puerto Rico: A Republican, he is on the Advisory Board of the
Hispanic Leadership Fund. In 2007, he supported Gang of Eight member
Jeff Flake's STRIVE act (co-sponsored
with Democrat Luis Gutierrez) that included amnesty, saying, "Only a
comprehensive immigration reform plan like the STRIVE Act will help us
achieve an effective, lasting, and viable solution to the immigration
issues facing our nation."
Jose Antonio Vargas will be live-tweeting
the event. Although he's not a panelist, Mr. Vargas is a participant
and is mentioned promimently on the website advertising the event. He's a
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, as well as an undocumented alien who
revealed his illegal status over a year ago. He discusses his status as
an unrepentant illegal alien in an essay on his blog entitled
Not Legal, Not Leaving.
Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy
Analyst at The Cato Institute: CATO has been helping to push the
immigration reform bill and has been a harsh critic of The Heritage
Foundation's report. CATO touts the fact that Nowrasteh's criticism of
the Heritage report
was cited on MSNBC. Nowrasteh was also cited by Jennifer Rubin's roundup of Heritage critiques: "
[He] accused Heritage
of not following years of their own work, which has striven to look at
the impact on behavior of changes resulting from reforming the tax code
and other innovations."
Breitbart News revealed Nowrasteh's involvement in coordinated emails with Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform attacking the Heritage report.
Derrick Morgan, VP of Domestic & Economic Policy at The Heritage Foundation.
The mix of Buzzfeed and Charles Koch would be unusual on
almost any other issue but the not-so-subtle goal of the event as
demonstrated by its lineup has not gone unnoticed even beyond
conservative circles.
Dave Weigel notes in Slate:
[A]s a veteran of the Koch-funded Reason
magazine, I can report that the libertarian brothers have always put
their money behind immigration reform. Maybe that complicates their
newfound (well, 3-year-old) role as all-purpose rich guy demons; they're
sponsoring a night of debates intended to nudge along immigration
reform.
Expect plenty of nudging at the Koch-sponsored BuzzFeed
Brews event; a night of exhibition insider baseball where BuzzFeed Ben
Smith underhands softballs to his pro-immigration reform panelists, who
will do their best to drill them right at The Heritage Foundation.
See the Ted Cruz/Shumer video at the same link
does what he does, these were the top 10 donors to his 2010 senatorial campaign (
[snip] “And he’s [Norquist] personally doing fine:....he gets two-thirds of his funding from two big
corporate billionaire-backed nonprofits: the Center to Protect Patients
Rights (KOCH BROS), which donated $4,189,000 to Americans for Tax Reform in 2010,
This poll was posted on the National Review Online's homepage on 5/11/13, similar to the poll it had last month (