From a piece by Rick Perlstein about Al From, founder of the DLC:
(Al) From somehow prevailed. His book’s acknowledgments list only sixteen politicians but identify twenty people “whose support and generosity…made the DLC story possible.” Among them are Jon Corzine, the disgraced financier and former New Jersey governor; Michael Steinhardt, a hedge fund manager, major Republican donor and founder of the defunct neoconservative New York Sun newspaper; and Rich Richman, who recently gave $10 million to Columbia University for a research center directed by R. Glenn Hubbard, former chair of George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors. (A Newsweek investigation in 2000 turned up some DLC underwriters that From doesn’t mention: Du Pont, Philip Morris, Merck and the Koch brothers.)
That's right,
THE KOCH BROTHERS:
Newsweek, 8/20/00: Among the DLC's biggest benefactors last year (contributions of between $50,000 and $100,000) were ARCO, Chevron and the drug giant Merck. Other big underwriters include Du Pont, Microsoft and Philip Morris (which has kicked in $500,000 since Lieberman became DLC chairman). There is no evidence that the DLC has trimmed policies to accommodate its patrons, but some contributors say the money has helped ensure an open door to Lieberman. "We've been able to have a dialogue with the senator and his staff," said Jay Rosser, spokesman for another DLC benefactor, Koch Industries, an oil-pipeline firm that is also a big GOP donor.
Our Hope and Change President has sold us out
on civil liberties. And on applying the same rule of law to fat cats like
the banksters and former
Bush-Cheney Administration criminals as to the rest of us. On trade deals like NAFTA, which
he criticized when he was running against Hillary in 2008. Once elected, he secretly resumed the negotiations G.W. Bush had begun on
NAFTA on steroids.
It's no accident that plutocrats like the Koch brothers have gotten almost all the gains from the economic recovery we've had...That was the game plan all along.
Heads the Republicans win and give the 1% everything they want...tails the DLC Democrats win and do the same.
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