So who was responsible for the dark money ? This is just a wild guess but I bet it starts with "KO" and ends in "CH" and why not when your on a political monopoly board you buy up all the terrain gov, house, senate, Supreme Court and if you work with say the Manufactures and Commerce or ALEC or the Chamber and the democratic party sits like a deer in the headlights ........
The lists are really useful, with many familiar names, but some new ones worth checking.
Of course, the documents list *current* creditors, not all past payments.
Will Happer and CO2 Coalition are not listed, although last year, he was paid $8,000 for his work for Peabody in the Minnesota Social Cost of Carbon case, although as a "donation" to CO2 Coalition.
See Table 2 in
http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/07/peabodys-outlier-gang-couldnt-shoot-straight
Of 7 witnesses, *'d still owed $ for something
1) Will Happer (via CO2 Coaltiion) earned $8,000 for this work.
2)* Richard Lindzen is still owed, but unclear whether for this work or something else. Lindzen was asked, no answer.
3)* Spencer admitted $4,000 for this, but as Nick notes, unclear if got paid, or still owed
4) Robert Mendelsohn (Yale) was asked, no answer.
5) Roger Bezdek wasn't asked.
6) Richard Tol was asked, said did it for free, and that is believable.
7) William Wecker wasn't asked.
Well put, K.Queensbury. The author of "South Bashing" is an idiot, and probably indisposed to considering your well-reasoned response. How any knowledgeable and intelligent person could regard Bush's foreign policy in general, and the war in Iraq in particular, as anything other than dismal failures is quite beyond me. Ms. Rice served as a cheerleader for the misguided and poorly conceived Iraq effort every step of the way. I often wondered how she could repeat - ad nauseum - the administration's slogans for the war such as, '[Saddam] gassed his own people.' The incident that afflicted the Kurdish village of Halabja was a battle between Iraq and Iran where both sides were using chemical weapons. Tragically, the Kurds found themselves caught in between these exchanges. Saddam was not targeting the Kurds. In fact, the CIA concluded that most of the injuries to the villagers were caused by the particular chemical weapons used by Iran. I doubt Condi was unaware of this, ergo she's a liar.
The Koch Brothers might consider giving their excessive funds in the interests of government principles rather than in the interests of building government oligarchy. What they state they want, and what they do seems very different, and this is the problem of the Citizen's United decision that allows such protocols. It's not the speech is money problem but what the speech money is for that matters! Building oligarchies is exactly the opposite to what the Constitution claims if we intend to keep it, and rely upon it as a governing document.
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