Lily Tomlin said it best: “No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.” Despite two solid years of progressive media tracking the billionaire Koch brothers’ funding of right wing front groups, new details have emerged which show a more sophisticated and ominous network than previously understood.
One of the key organizations funded by a Koch-controlled foundation is Americans for Prosperity (AFP). While it has been widely documented and publicized that the group is orchestrating the Tea Party, AFP is also a veritable smorgasbord of other “grassroots” personalities. The AFP or the AFP Foundation have spawned the following identities:
DefendingtheDream.org (August 27-28 D.C. summit for right wing strategizing and rally);SayNoCapandTrade.org (kill tax on production of greenhouse gases);NoInternetTakeover.com (attacks on the Federal Communications Commission);SickofSpending.com (“…how to recruit, educate, organize, and mobilize fed up Americans to stop the radical left-wing agenda…”);RegulationReality.com (“…educate citizens about the EPA’s attempt to implement radical global warming regulations…”);NovemberIsComing.com (phone bank; go door to door to beat back those liberals);TaxCutsForAll.com (don’t raise taxes on the rich);SpendingCrisis.org (shrink the Federal government);CaliforniaSoS.com (cut spending in California);United4NoOn4.com (kill Amendment 4 in Florida that would give voters more say in local legislative decisions; an ironic position for people who say they want to promote more liberty).
