So, some “commoners” came calling on the Kochs. Okay, it was more than some – more like 600. They’re affiliated with National People’s Action, a scrappy, grassroots network of farmers, workers, clergy, retirees, environmentalists, students, and just plain folks.
The visitors occupied the grand lobby of the lobbyists’ building – forming a picture-perfect contrast between the Powers That Be and the Powers That OUGHT To Be. First, a couple of ministers in the NPA group called on the Kochs to “repent” their narcissistic political push to pervert our democracy into their privatized plutocracy. Then, several of the out-of-towners gave personal testimony about the real-life impacts that the Kochs’ extremist ideological agenda is having. Patricia Fuller, for example, told of struggling to make it on Michigan’s $7.40-an-hour minimum wage, then asked why the billionaires would spend millions to try to knock it lower – or, as Charles Koch advocates, eliminating America’s wage floor entirely.
Of course, the visitors were tossed out, but their point was made: It’s time to toss these corporate oligarchs out of the people’s business.
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This has been reposted from Jim Hightower’s website.
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Photo by David Shankbone.
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