The Kochs are on the prowl for a candidate who will push their self-enriching agenda without abandon and a new report reveals that Carly Fiorina is “drawing the notice of the billionaire Koch brothers.”
Fiorina made her first 2016 foray into Kochworld when she appeared alongside the Kochs other candidates at their “exclusive summit of rich donors at an oceanfront luxury resort in August.” And she’s been on the Koch radar ever since.
Reuters reports that Fiorina’s recent performances on the campaign trail have “prompted industrialists Charles and David Koch to take a ‘serious look.'”
It’s easy to see why Fiorina would get the Koch nod of approval, her business record of putting profits ahead of all else by outsourcing and firing workers, is on par with the billionaire brothers’ philosophy of putting their bottom line fist.
If the Kochs pick Fiorina to spend a piece of the $900 million they’ve promised to spend on 2016, it won’t be the first time they’ve backed her because she’s on their side:
“The Kochs, who own America’s second-largest private company, have backed Fiorina in the past, notably when she ran unsuccessfully against incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer for her California Senate seat in 2010. At the time, the Kochs had helped mount a campaign for Proposition 23, a ballot measure designed to suspend the state law banning higher carbon emissions that was ultimately defeated. Fiorina also supported the measure.”
On issue after issue, Carly has proved she’ll side with the Kochs over middle class families. For example, Fiorina is committed to killing the Ex-Im Bank because it’s good for the Kochs but bad for the middle class.
Taking Fiorina’s Koch ties even further, her operation is full of Kochworld alumni — her campaign manager used to work for Koch Industries and her Senior Adviser used to head up Koch front group 60 plus.
Each candidate in the Republican field has renewed their efforts to woo the Koch brothers in hopes they will spend big propping up his or her campaign, and Carly Fiorina may have found her hook.
But it’s not just Carly the Kochs have a hook in. Whoever becomes the GOP nominee — Jeb, Rubio, Kasich, or Cruz — they’ll all be beholden to the Kochs.
It may have been Donald Trump who puts it best — every candidate (but him) in the Republican field is just a puppet of the Koch brothers.