Read it and weep..ing soon to a theatre near you, if its not already there in reruns... Last April, in Tennessee, the state chapter of one of the Kochs’ legislative arms, Americans for Prosperity, made a well-planned effort to preemptively kill a citizen-approved Nashville bus rapid transit project... In Indiana, the Koch’s Americans for Prosperity spent time and money as the major opposition voice of another citizen-backed effort to expand mass transit in and around Indianapolis by lobbying state legislators to ban legislation allowing the city to hold a tax referendum to expand its transit network... The Koch brothers tasked the local Virginia Americans for Prosperity to ardently oppose and fight a new citizen-approved tax in Loudoun County to fund an extension of the Metro Silver Line extension... Another Koch group and sister organization of ALEC, the State Policy Network, used a subsidiary called the Pioneer Institute to create a manufactured controversy to attack the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.. The idea was to turn taxpayers against the bus transit system by portraying the workforce as fleecing the public despite the overwhelming popularity and necessity of bus transit in a dense, crowded city like Boston...
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 02:13:47 +0000
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