Jeb Bush is touting his “tough on crime” bonafides in response to an instagram video attack by Donald Trump. The attack against the real estate mogul is straight forward enough, but it could come with some unintended consequences.

Jeb has an extensive resume in sucking up to the Kochs, but only recently did the brothers turn their attention to the younger Bush as a presidential candidate due to concerns about their original favorite’s (Scott Walker) electability. As part of their positive PR push, the Koch brothers have been pushing for criminal justice reform. Jeb’s attack is in conflict with that campaign.

During his campaign for governor and after he was elected, Jeb Bush pushed “tough” on crime policies. According to the St. Petersburg Times, “Jeb Bush, a 40-year-old Miami real estate investor, said that as governor he would… build more prisons and fill them with more prisoners and make people on […]

Charles and David Koch-owned Georgia-Pacific last week announced the closing of its Phillips, Wisconsin, factory. It’s being closed because “It doesn’t make economic sense,” a company spokesman reportedly said — the Kochs couldn’t afford to keep it open. The Georgia-Pacific spokesman conveniently “did not know” the average hourly wage of the factory employees being fired — a prime example of the Kochs’ driving philosophy that only the bottom line matters, not the well being of workers and their families. 

An economic mainstay in Phillips in the 57 years since it first opened its doors, the factory has hundreds of Phillips residents — including the sixty, soon-to-be-unemployed men and women who work there today. Sixty Wisconsinites who will soon be out of work, because Charles and David Koch couldn’t afford to pay them, apparently. 

Meanwhile, over in Madison, Governor Scott Walker has been showered with more than $10 million in support from […]

As we mark the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history, the Koch-founded CATO Institute injected themselves into the debate over disaster response and preparedness. In a blog post criticizing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, CATO Institute Director Chris Edwards calls for the complete privatization of disaster response and preparation organizations including FEMA. While Edwards is correct that George W. Bush’s FEMA made many egregious mistakes in its response to Hurricane Katrina, the total privatization of disaster relief would have, frankly, disastrous results.

Edwards writes that “the private sector also played a large and effective role during Katrina,” but he fails to relay the many companies, including several Koch subsidiaries, that took advantage of the situation.

Bridge Project’s new report, “Ten Years Later: A Look Back On The Koch Brothers & Hurricane Katrina,” looks at Koch Industries’ role in Katrina. The Kochs’ […]

Hard to not see this one coming.

Going into the Koch brothers’ “Defending American Dream Summit” last weekend, we pointed out Charles and David’s immigration conundrum — here they were, hosting all kinds of anti-immigrant, anti-birthright citizenship GOP presidential candidates, while simultaneously professing to care about the Latino community.

But Charles and David’s LIBRE Initiative is nothing more than a sham outreach front group and propaganda machine, so we predicted Charles and David would stay silent while their invited guests rolled out the inflammatory anti-immigrant rhetoric.

And, to risk sounding self-congratulatory: We were right.

Here’s how Bloomberg Politics reported on the event’s immigration dialogue:

When it was time to file into the bleachers to see presidential candidates speak, talk of outreach faded away. The crowd went wild for Texas Senator Ted Cruz, whose plan for guarding the Mexican frontier includes 90,000 repurposed IRS employees, and for Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor, who promised to […]

Understandably loath to be called out for their subversive advocacy that tips the scales for their profit margins at the expense of the welfare of the American public, the Koch brothers yesterday took a swing at President Obama.

In a Monday speech on energy, President Obama called out fossil fuel interest lobbying efforts and the Kochs’ big-dollar spending, in particular. Here’s what he said, according to Politico:

[Y]ou start seeing massive lobbying efforts backed by fossil fuel interests, or conservative think tanks, or the Koch brothers pushing for new laws to roll back renewable energy standards or prevent new clean energy business from succeeding — that’s a problem.

Ever the sensitive types — and guided by one of the best PR teams money can buy — the Kochs went public with their “outrage,” responding quickly and forcefully to Obama’s denouncement.

“Flabbergasted,” was how Charles Koch described his own reaction to the […]