Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 01/30/2011 8:44:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge
RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) – About 1,000 chanting protesters rallied on Sunday outside a California resort where conservative lawmakers and business executives met for a political strategy session hosted by billionaires Charles and David Koch.
About two dozen police officers in riot gear lined up in front of the Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in the upscale desert town of Rancho Mirage to keep the protesters away from the gated entrance.
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Another group, some dressed in hazardous material suits, tried to encircle the resort with yellow caution tape in a symbolic effort to "quarantine" the meeting, but they were dispersed by police.
Many of the boisterous activists, some chanting "Dirty Money, Dirty Money," carried signs with such slogans as "Power to the People" and "Tea Party Founded and Funded by the Kochs."
The rally was organized by the liberal group Common Cause, which has accused of the Koch brothers and other business interests of using corporate largess to exercise undue influence over U.S. politics.
The Koch brothers kept the guest list for this weekend's private, invitation-only gathering confidential, but U.S. House Republican leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and conservative columnist Herman Cain were reported among the participants.
Previous meetings have featured such Republican luminaries as Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina and Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, according to Common Cause.
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In a letter calling on participants to join the meeting in Rancho Mirage, Charles Koch argued that "prosperity is under attack by the current administration and many of our elected officials."
The brothers own Koch Industries, an energy conglomerate ranked by Forbes magazine as the second-largest privately held company in the United States, and are known to underwrite the Cato Institute and other libertarian and conservative causes.
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Thanks for the list.
Bingo!!
25 arrested at California conservative meeting
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Organizer Samantha Corbin told City News Service the protesters were there to "voice opposition to the Koches' funding of climate denial groups, far-right political candidates and anti-health care reform efforts."
Who are you referring to ?
Commie Cause
OK...I just wasn’t sure...and I agree!
Common Cause - CC supports “Net Neutrality,” a policy that would empower the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the Internet.
A key partner of CC is Democracy Matters, a group which emphasizes “agit-prop theatre” and “guerrilla activism” among college students to promote far-left agendas.
Robert Edgar, former secretary general of the National Council of Churches, was named CC’s president and CEO in 2007. In recent years, CC has received large amounts of funding from George Soros’s Open Society Institute, the Tides Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the GE Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Century Foundation, and the Compton Foundation. More here.. http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7610
COMMON CAUSE (CC) http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7610
Just maybe what they say they are is only what they started out to be. At least years ago I could listen to them. The act of picketing another groups get together is appalling to me with very few exceptions.
I saw buses of (mostly Hispanics) all dressed in purple... About 10 miles from this location; day before yesterday....
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
They can’t do something really helpful, say like volunteering somewhere.
Envy.
“In recent years, CC has received large amounts of funding from George Soros’s Open Society Institute, the Tides Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the GE Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Century Foundation, and the Compton Foundation. “
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=7610
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