The Koch Influence...
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth Special interests at play in the political arena. Money does indeed talk and what it buys is usually not good for this floundering democratic republic. When a federal judge blocks an investigation into the possibility of illegal spending during a recall election it should raise some eyebrows, especially when the judge orders all the evidence gathered destroyed. If you're thinking the name Koch figures into this somehow you'd be correct. PR Watch - The federal judge who ordered a halt to Wisconsin's "John Doe" criminal investigation into spending during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections has regularly attended all-expenses paid "judicial junkets" funded by the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and other ideological and corporate interests. On May 6, federal District Court Judge Rudolph Randa blocked an ongoing John Doe criminal probe into a...