Posted on 10/28/2011 9:03:52 AM PDT by marty60
He is the man with the mustache who takes a rebellious drag on a cigarette in the Herman Cain Internet ad gone viral.
"We've run a campaign like nobody's ever seen," he says before taking a puff. "But then America's never seen a candidate like Herman Cain."
Meet Mark Block, Cain's unorthodox campaign manager. Perhaps no one is more responsible for the Georgia businessman's meteoric rise in the presidential polls than Block, a Republican strategist and tea party leader who's left a trail of questionable campaign work behind him.
Block has been accused of voter suppression and was banned from running Wisconsin political campaigns for three years to settle accusations he coordinated a judge's re-election campaign with a special interest group.
Records show Block has faced foreclosure on his home, a tax warrant by the Internal Revenue Service and a lawsuit for an unpaid bill. He also acknowledges he was arrested twice for drunken driving.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/28/cains-cigarette-puffing-aide-has-checkered-past/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fpolitics+%28Internal+-+Politics+-+Text%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo#ixzz1c5nPhl8q
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“Cain’s Cigarette-Puffing Aide Has Checkered Past”
So does Rick Perry.
David Koch supports policies that promote individual liberty and free market principles. He supports gay marriage and stem-cell research.[3] He is against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and was against the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.[3] Koch is skeptical about anthropogenic Global Warming, and thinks a warmer planet would be good because “[t]he Earth will be able to support enormously more people because a far greater land area will be available to produce food”.[3]
He opposed the Iraq war, saying that the war has “cost a lot of money, and it’s taken so many American lives”. “I question whether that was the right thing to do. In hindsight that looks like it was not a good policy.” he told an interviewer.[15]
David Koch dislikes President Obama’s policies. “He’s the most radical president we’ve ever had as a nation... and has done more damage to the free enterprise system and long-term prosperity than any president we’ve ever had.”[15] Koch believes that Obama’s father’s economic socialism explains what Koch views as Obama’s belief in “antibusiness, anti-free enterprise influences.”[15] Koch believes Obama himself is a “hardcore socialist” who is “marvelous at pretending to be something other than that.” [17]
Political advocacySee also: Political activities of the Koch family
In 1984, Koch founded, served as Chairman of the board of directors of, and donated to the free-market Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE). Richard H. Fink served as its first president.[15] In 2004, CSE separated into the Americans for Prosperity Foundation and FreedomWorks. Koch continues as Chairman of the Board and gives money to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation and to a related advocacy organization, Americans for Prosperity. A Koch spokesperson issued a press release stating that the Kochs’ have “no ties to and have never given money to FreedomWorks”.[18]
Koch also sits on the board and donates to the libertarian Cato Institute and Reason Foundation.[2][3][19]
In the late summer and early fall of 2010, Koch’s contributions to political campaigns, free-market think tanks and other advocacy organizations came under increased scrutiny. Koch supports Republican candidates and California Proposition 23 (2010). In July 2010, New York magazine profiled him, calling him the “tea party’s wallet”.[3] Koch says that: “I’ve never been to a tea party event. No one representing the tea party has ever even approached me.”[3] However, some organisations tracking money in politics say that Americans for Prosperity is in the Tea Party movement.[20]
In August 2010, Jane Mayer of The New Yorker wrote a controversial[15][21] article on the political spending of David and Charles Koch: “As their fortunes grew, Charles and David Koch became the primary underwriters of hard-line libertarian politics in America.”[2][22] Mayer’s article has received criticism for using “psycho-biographic innuendo, unnamed sources, and half-truths.”[23]
Kimberly O. Dennis, of the Searle Freedom Trust, a libertarian foundation, suggests that the Kochs are acting against their economic interest in promoting “getting government out of the business of running the economy. If they were truly interested in protecting their profits, they wouldn’t be spending so much to shrink government; they’d be looking for a bigger slice of the pie for themselves. Their funding is devoted to promoting free-market capitalism, not crony capitalism.”[24]
Libertarians like you people don’t like it when some one gives you the same treatment you vomit out of your mouths.
You Casiniacs have singlehandedly destroyed FR. Damn Shame.
PERRY WILL BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Not the pizza flipping baffoon your koch funded campaign wants.
Kochs didn’t like paying 250+ million Dollars for killing two teenagers at their plant in Tx.
But they made it up illegally trading with IRAN.. You go Bros.
David and Charles have funded conservative and libertarian policy and advocacy groups in the United States.[7] Since the 1980s the Koch foundations have given more than $100 million to such organizations, among these think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute, as well as more recently Americans for Prosperity.[8] Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks are Koch-linked organizations that have been linked to the Tea Party movement.[9][10]
From Wiki.
Telling FReepers that Cain is associated with the Kochs is like putting a huge Superman cape on him.
I’m voting for him for SURE!!!
THANKS MARTY!
He’ll be missed I am sure. By....someone.
Koch was the Libertarian Party’s vice-presidential candidate in the 1980 presidential election, sharing the party ticket with presidential candidate Ed Clark. The Clark–Koch ticket promising to abolish Social Security, the Federal Reserve Board, welfare, minimum-wage laws, corporate taxes, all price supports and subsidies for agriculture and business, and U.S. Federal agencies including the SEC, EPA, ICC, FTC, OSHA, FBI, CIA, and DOE.[2][12] The ticket proposed legalization of prostitution, recreational drugs, and suicide.[2] The ticket received 921,128 votes, 1.06% of the total nationwide vote,[13] the Libertarian Party national ticket’s best showing to date.[14] The Koch brothers were proud of what they had accomplished. “Compared to what [the Libertarians had] gotten before,” Charles said, “and where we were as a movement or as a political/ideological point of view, that was pretty remarkable, to get 1 percent of the vote.”[15]
After the bid, according to journalist Brian Doherty’s Radicals for Capitalism, Koch viewed politicians as “actors playing out a script.”[16][2]
Koch credits the campaign of Roger MacBride as his inspiration for getting involved in politics, telling a reporter from New York magazine:
Here was a great guy, advocating all the things I believed in. He wanted less government and taxes, and was talking about repealing all these victimless crime laws that accumulated on the books. I have friends who smoke pot. I know many homosexuals. It’s ridiculous to treat them as criminals—and here was someone running for president, saying just that.[12]
Really the Koch bros think Homosexuality is just find, legalization of drugs, no problem. Suicide go for it. Stem Cells for everyone/s
No wonder Cain had so much trouble answering the Abortion question. He did say he supports life from birth tooooooo..never finished it. Or maybe I turned it before he managed to choke out “natural death”
How many posts has marty60 made against George Soros?
marty, marty, marty! You’ve taken a wrong turn down pissant Lane. It’s a dead end! Turn around now before you go off the cliff.
More than you have, I do research on issues and people.
“More than you have”
Far be it for me to call you a liar just because you display your low character by spending your time here smearing conservatives but could I bother you to back that up?
sssshhhhhh.....
I've seen him criticize FR more than I've seen him criticize George Soros.
Just trying to talk her down before she leaps over the edge.
LOL. Probably true. I hate to see old timers like this risk an ozone filled future but I’ve been around long enough to see others zotted for less.
You’re a Saint.
I’d say you’ve gotten it nicely summarized.
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