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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes Crisp Crispy Have Any Ties To The Koch Brothers?.....
I think I heard that he was their fair haired boy - but I'd like to verify that.
It seems like the Koch's insinuate themselves in most everything in politics because of their money. I'm wondering if they have ties to Crispy and what the nature of those ties are?
Also - what is Crisp Crispy worth? I'm sure he had to disclose his tax forms - so I'm also just curious what his net worth is? Is he a wealthy man?
I don't know why I'm sniffing around the Koch's and Crispy - but when there is money and power involved - I think of the Kochs.
After hearing about the Billion $ real estate development going on in Ft. Lee - I began to think about the Kochs and if they wanted a piece of that.
Just curious.
klook
(12,171 posts)By Greg Palast, truth-out.org
In 2012, a tax-exempt "social welfare organization" called Committee for Our Children's Future, CCF, ran a series of TV ads telling America that Governor Christie has performed more miracles in New Jersey than Jesus did with loaves and fish. The New York Times found some old college chums who said they set up the "Children's" crusade for Christie. But the ads cost about $6 million. The Times didn't ask how Christie's buddies, not wealthy guys, found the six big ones.
But CCF was not started in 2012. When I heard "Children's Future," my nose started twitching. I smelled Koch.
- more: http://truth-out.org/news/item/21258-gov-christie-and-david-koch-in-cahoots-its-time-to-subpoena-the-committee-for-our-childrens-future
questionseverything
(9,662 posts)As noteworthy, if not more so, billionaire brother David Koch is heard introducing the Governor and revealing, among other things, that he had met privately with Christie in Koch's New York City office a few months prior, "just the two of us - for about two hours," according to the audio tapes. Afterward, the oil-and-chemical magnate, said to be worth $22 billion (just like his brother, as they both inherited their father's fortune), determined that Christie was "a true political hero" and "my kind of guy."
David Koch's "kind of guy." Well, that's the sort of thing that could leave a mark. Especially when the entire thing is recorded for posterity on audio tape. Perhaps that's why Christie didn't want anybody to know he was hobnobbing with the Kochs...or what he had to say at their secret shindig, including (but hardly limited to):
Details on wielding extraordinary unitary executive powers to declare a "fiscal emergency" upon taking office in order to impound billions in planned spending ("The good news for all of you and for me is that the governorship in New Jersey is the most powerful constitutional governorship in America." ;
Snookering and strong-arming Democrats in the state Legislature to cut pensions and benefits and collective bargaining rights from public workers ("You know, I cannot believe how stupid these people are" ;
How the same tactics and strong-arm governance he's brought to New Jersey need to be applied to the country as a whole, and;
How his next major plan for his Garden State constituents is to crush the power of public school teachers ("We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all."
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)global1
(25,285 posts)I laughed when I heard that and thought - he's toast - the name stuck.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)2naSalit
(86,832 posts)Does a bear sh*t in the woods?
moondust
(20,016 posts)Large deposits incoming...