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FSogol

(45,357 posts)
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 02:31 PM Jun 2014

The Friends of Dave Brat

By Charles P. Pierce on June 11, 2014

"The most revelatory piece about how Dave Brat came to be the likely new congressman from the Seventh Congressional District of the Commonwealth of Virginia ran in Tiger Beat On The Potomac back on April 17. (We noted it at the time.) It also undermines the emerging character of Dave Brat, Ordinary Joe. A lot of the credit for his upset is going (rightly) to various radio hosts who took the payola from wingnut sugar daddies as described by Ken Vogel and MacKenzie Weinger. Mark Levin took almost $800,000 from Americans For Prosperity. Laura Ingraham was on the arm, too. Brat also seems to owe his job to Cato Institute president John Allison.

The funding for the program came from John Allison, the former CEO of BB&T (a financial-services company) who now heads the Cato Institute. The two share an affinity for Ayn Rand: Allison is a major supporter of the Ayn Rand Institute, and Brat co-authored a paper titled "An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand." Brat says that while he isn't a Randian, he has been influenced by Atlas Shrugged and appreciates Rand's case for human freedom and free markets."

read of the article here:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Friends_Of_Dave_Brat

BB&T, hardly the anti-corporate anti-banking dude.

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The Friends of Dave Brat (Original Post) FSogol Jun 2014 OP
k&r Duppers Jun 2014 #1
Thanks. n/t FSogol Jun 2014 #2
This is a very interesting wrinkle on Brat's campaign. bluesbassman Jun 2014 #3
NPR ran a similar story yesterday too. FSogol Jun 2014 #4
" Mark Levin took almost $800,000 from Americans For Prosperity" sufrommich Jun 2014 #5
No idea. I'm assuming it is legal now. n/t FSogol Jun 2014 #6

bluesbassman

(19,310 posts)
3. This is a very interesting wrinkle on Brat's campaign.
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 04:49 PM
Jun 2014

Seems to be some rather heavy hitting back room coordination here.

sufrommich

(22,871 posts)
5. " Mark Levin took almost $800,000 from Americans For Prosperity"
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 05:03 PM
Jun 2014

Someone explain to me how this is any different from the Payola scandals of the 1950s? Are radio guys (DJs) allowed to push certain corporate lines (records) now for cash?

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