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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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(45,357 posts)bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)Seems to be some rather heavy hitting back room coordination here.
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(45,357 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)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?