Thursday, March 1, 2012

Koch brothers

  • In an attempt to wrestle back control of an institution they helped create, billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank and public policy organization.
  • (Forbes)
  • Just in time for the release of Brave New Foundations new film, Koch Brothers Exposed, Rush Limbaugh has thrown in with Charles and David Koch in their letter war with Obama campaign manager Jim Messina.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • TOPEKA, Kan. -- Billionaire brothers and political donors Charles and David Koch (kohk) have filed a lawsuit in Kansas over the ownership of a prominent, Washington-based conservative think tank.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • The Koch brothers and their conservative advocacy group, Americans for Prosperity, say the Obama administration is using them as a bogeyman for the 2012 election.
  • (Washington Post)
  • In the suit, filed Thursday in Johnson County District Court in Olathe, the Kochs seek to require the widow of William Niskanen, one the institute's original shareholders, to sell Niskanen's shares back to the institute.
  • (The Business Journal)
  • Charles G. Koch and David H. Koch, the deep-pocketed conservative activists, launched a court fight yesterday over control of the Cato Institute, one of the nation's best-known free-market think tanks.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch launched a legal battle Wednesday over control of the Cato Institute, the influential libertarian think tank one of them helped found nearly 40 years ago.
  • (TPM)
  • In his reply to a letter sent from a Koch Companies employee Wednesday, Obamas campaign manager Jim Messina criticized the Koch brothers Americans for Prosperity Fund and helped advance the ever-growing Koch-Obama spat.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • The Koch brothers are making headlines again today, this time for suing the libertarian Cato Institute over control of the think tank.
  • (AlterNet)
  • According to a post at The Washington Post's ThinkTanked blog, billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are suing the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank that was founded as the Charles Koch Institute in 1974.
  • (Raw Story)

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