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| Charles Koch David H. Koch |
By Joseph Curl, Mar. 30, 2014, The Washington Times
Just kidding. I know who the Koch
brothers are. They’re the billionaire oil magnates who control 4,000 miles of
pipeline and whose corporation, Koch Industries,
owns dozens of companies like Georgia-Pacific
lumber, Stainmaster carpet, Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper, even
Dixie cups. Net sales: $115 billion. A year.
The brothers are old dudes: David is 73, Charles
is 78. They’re into the arts, dance, music, medicine (“into” meaning they give
hundreds of millions of dollars to support). Their multiple foundations focus
on, among other things, job training, education. Another funds cancer research (nearly $700
million so far); yet another keys on the environment. One lives in Wichita,
Kansas. Flyover country.
But this year, the Koch brothers are the
prime targets of Democrats in the mid-term elections.
You read that right. The Democrats are putting everything they’ve
got into this single effort: Attack two elderly rich guys. The party’s top
leaders have concluded that if they can demonize these two geezers, they can
hold onto the Senate, and maybe pick
up some seats in the House. (If the bros are reading this, sorry about the
“geezers” thing, and yes, I would like $10 million for a project I’d like to
start up.)
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