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Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 10:36 AM Mar 2014

Targeted DEM Incumbents Should Challenge the Koch Bros. to Debate Them *Directly*.

Ignore the stooge GOP challengers and go right to the source of the $$$$ and the bullshit.

If nothing else.... the tactic will help to educate a sleepy gen public about what's actually going on.

Apropos of this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024622526

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Targeted DEM Incumbents Should Challenge the Koch Bros. to Debate Them *Directly*. (Original Post) Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 OP
Recommend. n/t Jefferson23 Mar 2014 #1
Great idea. I just forwarded it to Mary Burke, Dem candidate for Governor here in Wisconsin. Scuba Mar 2014 #2
+1. I hope it helps. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #7
That Is A Pretty Good Idea Liberal_Dog Mar 2014 #3
That's on them, then. In the meantime, everyone gets a valuable civics lesson. Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #5
Excellent idea. The Kochs too often hide behind their money and ridiculous campaign finance laws. gtar100 Mar 2014 #4
Interesting. The "worst inmates running the asylum." Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 #8
Ve-l-l-ly intelesting. I like it. Eleanors38 Mar 2014 #6
 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
2. Great idea. I just forwarded it to Mary Burke, Dem candidate for Governor here in Wisconsin.
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 11:24 AM
Mar 2014

The Koch's have already spend a small fortune smearing her with TV ads.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
7. +1. I hope it helps.
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 03:07 PM
Mar 2014

From what I've heard, she'd wipe the floor with one while cleaning the other's clock, so to speak.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
5. That's on them, then. In the meantime, everyone gets a valuable civics lesson.
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 12:30 PM
Mar 2014

>>>But Chuckie and Davy would never have the guts to do it.>>>>

gtar100

(4,192 posts)
4. Excellent idea. The Kochs too often hide behind their money and ridiculous campaign finance laws.
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 11:57 AM
Mar 2014

They should come out front and center and tell everyone that their whole purpose is to rig the policies and laws in their favor, damn the consequences to everyone else. Because that is exactly what their political efforts are attempting to do.

They are the two biggest examples of how inheritance can make people stupid with greed. All that money and not an ounce of concern for the world as a whole. Selfishness run amok, they create nothing very interesting and make our lives more difficult. What a legacy they are building.

 

Smarmie Doofus

(14,498 posts)
8. Interesting. The "worst inmates running the asylum."
Fri Mar 7, 2014, 07:50 PM
Mar 2014

>>>They are the two biggest examples of how inheritance can make people stupid with greed. All that money and not an ounce of concern for the world as a whole. Selfishness run amok, they create nothing very interesting and make our lives more difficult. What a legacy they are building.>>>

That's an old one but it's never been more true than it is now.

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