Jane Mayer exposes Art Pope, RedMap, and how Foundations will buy elections thank you very much Citizens United.
In Mayer's article State for Sale,
REDMAP is a new project aimed at engineering a Republican takeover of state legislatures.
“In a very real sense, Democrats running for office in North Carolina are running against Art Pope,” one political operative says.
In North Carolina, the Rich Kid scheme worked very well in 2010. Democrats lost 18 seats and the power for gruesome redistricting is falling into place.
Born with a Silver Spoon into a wealthy, Southern family of influence, Mr. Pope has a law degree, knows tax law very well, has no compassion for the workers of this country, and has been a close friend of the Koch brothers for 25 years. Peas in a Pod hoping to Trickle Down on the peon mods.
Mayer's article is enlightening, but we, the DailyKos Investigative Team, have found much of the information.
However, Jane really strips away the veil and exposes how the Rich Kids Club (Pope, Koch and Others) funnel money through each others Foundations to buy influence/elections in yesterday's Fresh Air interview with Terry Gross.
What Jane exposes in this interview is so shocking, I almost drove off the road!
This interview, more than Mayer's article reveal the mindbogglingly evil designs of this man and his Koch-like cohorts. Jane goes into detail how the IRS tax code is used to funnel money from each others foundations to buy elections. These Richies have got the IRS tax law down to a science and are working it!
This cabal of Rich Kids Using Daddy's Money to Buy Government has funded redistricting efforts in states, control of State Universities, and placed State Legislature sockpuppet candidates in office. In short, they are destroying democracy and our Republic.
Pope, in fact, helped fund the legal center run by James Bopp, the lawyer who made the initial filing in the Citizens United case
Click on this link to hear the whole program. Listen to the words.
They will stop at nothing to buy the 2012 election. I fear for this country if these born-into-privilege sociopaths take control. Hopefully, the OccupyMovement will be able to stop them. If not, I have no reservations saying that the US will become an intolerant, poverty stricken, hungry proto-fascist version of Dicksonian life.
We cannot let the heartless Rich Kids and their zombie, militant, misogynist, anti-justabouteveryone sycophants rule this country.
You can listen to a Pope speech vid below. eeewwww
And some really funny videos made to mock him.
Kossack BalmerUSA brought this article to my attention. It was published before Mayers reports. We really have to stop these Rich Kids.
Art Pope bankrolls candidates dismantling desegregation policy in NC school system
On Redistricting