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[telemann.livejournal.com]

Disingenuous chart is disingenuous.

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[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

If that were true, we'd be a socialist utopia already!

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

No shit, Sherlock. Where the heck did this chart come from?

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Why, thank you! I admire your fierceness in dealing with badlydrawnjeff. He likes to provoke us and I've come to the point where I know how to respond without raising my blood pressure and my stress level. It wasn't easy, however!

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Lucky you. He sure used to raise mine.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay! I'm glad to know I'm not the only one whose hackles have been raised by Jeff!

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

A much more reliable source for information about political donations is opensecrets.org. Their website has LOTS of detailed information about amounts, donors, etc.

I sincerely doubt that Koch Industries has only given roughly $13 million to conservative political candidates and organizations over the last 23 years. For 2012 alone, they'd already spent $2.5 million by July 31.

[the-dark-fyre.livejournal.com]

Look at the time frame, though. How long has Koch industries itself been a corporate entity? How much more comes from donations under private names? Donors to whom for that matter? The chart itself is disingenuous, sure, but I wonder if that's just manipulation of numbers rather than outright lying.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

"When all the mistakes are in the cashier's favor, you have to wonder."
—Daryl Huff, How to Lie with Statistics

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this. :-D

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

It's a terrific book, and a fun, easy read — but that's the money quote.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely check it out!

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Koch Industries has been a corporate entity since 1940.

[catlin.livejournal.com]

That is an interesting point. Also the Koch brothers have set up a pac that they spend money through, that has its own people who even go so far as to troll the opinion line of the wichita newspapers.

[catlin.livejournal.com]

Living in wichita Ks, I can say with reasonable chance of accuracy they have given that much to push politics in Kansas -alone-

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Doesn't surprise me a bit.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

That's one element for sure!

[catlin.livejournal.com]

I am curious how much these groups have donated in the past decade. Before the Koch brothers took control from their father, at the least.