Joan McCarter had a part of this story up Charles Koch
She talks about some of the things Charlie said during that secret meeting of billionaires. But there was a bit more.
h/t to Steven at Booman Tribune: Barrack Obama is Saddam Hussein
In Charlie Koch's own words:
What I want to do is recognize not all of our great partners, but those partners who have given more than a billion - a mill-, no, billion - [sustained laughter, applause]. Well, I was thinking of Obama and his billion dollar campaign, so I thought we gotta do better than that. [inaudible] you can't run on these deals. No, I'm not, I'm gonna go easy on you. More than a million over the last 12 months. If you want to kick in a billion, believe me, we'll have a special seminar just for you. [laughter]
According to Stephen who points us to Brad Blog
Charles Koch names 32 people who have contributed One Million Dollars or more anonymously (well not anymore) to defeat Saddam/Obama next year.
Brad Blog has the Mother Jones 2 part story and some transcripts from this summer retreat of the uber uber rich.
No matter how you slice it we desperately need to put the genie of "Citzens United" back in the bottle. I would like to suggest we impeach all those judges that signed on for this democracy destroyer. But I can't see that happening either.
We can't fight that kind of money without putting a hell of a lot of skin in the game. I am looking forward to October 2011
From the Brad Blog the honor roll of people shelling out tons o cash to defeat democracy:
...The Camerons, John Childs, The Ciokas, The Cortopossis, Joe Craft, The DeVoses, The Farmers, Kelly Friedman, The Friesses, The Fullinwiders, The Gilliams, The Griffins, The Hamms, The Haworths, The Haydens, Diane Hendricks, The Humphreys family, Virginia James, The Levys, The Marshalls family, The Menards, John Moran, The Patricks, The Popes, The Schwabs, Paul Singer, The Templetons, The Traytellas, The Robertsons, Karen Wright, and Tom Rastin, and the principals with the Services Group of America, and then ten more will remain anonymous, including David and me [laughter], so we're very humble in that..