I don't want to hear about the Koch brothers until the F'n liberals deal with their Soros dependency!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 10/16/2011 7:53:02 AM PDT by mandaladon
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain has cast himself as the outsider, the pizza magnate with real-world experience who will bring fresh ideas to the nation's capital. But Cain's economic ideas, support and organization have close ties to two billionaire brothers who bankroll right-leaning causes through their group Americans for Prosperity.
Cain's campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity, or AFP, the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending. Cain credits a businessman who served on an AFP advisory board with helping devise his "9-9-9" plan to rewrite the nation's tax code. And his years of speaking at AFP events have given the businessman and radio host a network of loyal grassroots fans.
The once little-known businessman's political activities are getting fresh scrutiny these days since he soared to the top of some national polls.
His links to the Koch brothers could undercut his outsider, non-political image among tea party fans who detest politics as usual and candidates connected with the party machine.
AFP tapped Cain as the public face of its "Prosperity Expansion Project," and he traveled the country in 2005 and 2006 speaking to activists who were starting state-based AFP chapters from Wisconsin to Virginia. Through his AFP work he met Mark Block, a longtime Wisconsin Republican operative hired to lead that state's AFP chapter in 2005 as he rebounded from an earlier campaign scandal that derailed his career.
Block and Cain sometimes traveled together as they built up AFP: Cain was the charismatic speaker preaching the ills of big government; Block was the operative helping with nuts and bolts.
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I hope it’s true!
Whipping the marxists with a candidate superficially a member of their “base” will make victory even sweeter.
Cain is in terrific company.
Good for him.
His links to the Koch brothers could undercut his outsider, non-political image among tea party fans who detest politics as usual and candidates connected with the party machine.
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i doubt it. the koch brothers are conservatives, not rinos.
What’s not to like?
I don't want to hear about the Koch brothers until the F'n liberals deal with their Soros dependency!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This makes me like Cain even more.
“Halliburton!!”
The Kock Brothers shoot RINO’s .
From where I’m sitting, it’s a good thing if the Koch brothers back Herman.
LOL! Love it! bttt
Music, I tell ya! Music to my ears! so much for not being able to outlast the romney/perry money wagon.
They are part of the group who are tired of the GOP establishment elites and are working to change that. Maybe I am missing something here...but I think that is a good thing.
“the advocacy group founded with support from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, which lobbies for lower taxes and less government regulation and spending.”
OMG this group must be down right EVIL!
ZZZZZzzzzzz
Aren’t the Koch’s the largest private employer of union labor in the U.S. or something like that? I thought I read that here on FR awhile back.
Then again, unions have never had a problem with shooting themselves and their members in the foot in order to further their Leftist causes...
What got me was the melodramatic ‘deep ties’ headline. That really deserved a good mocking. Like ‘green shoots’ it’s yet another bit of left-wing phraseology psyops destined for the rhetorical turd pile.
Good point. A connection with the Koch brothers is only a positive in my eyes. It means you are an outsider, a true conservative, NOT a member of the rino establishment. The writer of this article has no concept of who is on what side in this battle for the heart of the GOP.
True
Oh, no! Cain's a . . . a . . . (gasp!) . . . pro-American capitalist!
It's almost funny what the Left considers to be a smear these days.
Koch brothers - evil
Scary dude Soros - no big deal.
I hate the MSM
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