Friday, May 8, 2015

Former(?) Koch Operative Behind the Major New Attack Against Rand Paul?

Wow, not only does Rand have to be concerned about an attack from billionaire neocon Sheldon Adelson, but a new attack is coming via a political operative who was a major Koch brothers man.

I have already pointed out that it appears Rand was set up to be the fall guy in the killing of the investigation of Congressional fraud related to Obamacare and that a political action group is already out with an attack ad in Iowa against Rand's killing of the investigation. This is serious, well thought out activities, designed to inflict major damage on Rand's presidential aspirations.

It turns out that the political action group behind the attack ad is American Encore.

Here's what Source Watch has to say about American Encore (my Bold):
American Encore is a secretive nonprofit group (formerly known as the Center to Protect Patient Rights) organized under Section 501(c)(4) of the tax code that funneled more than $182 million in undisclosed donations to right-wing advocacy groups from 2009 to 2012, including Americans for Prosperity and the American Future Fund. The Washington Post described it as a "major cash turnstile for groups on the right during the past two election cycles," because it received large amounts of money from Freedom Partners and TC4 Trust as part of the $400 million Koch political network.

The president of American Encore is Sean Noble. Here's what ProPublica had to say about Noble in 2014:

The Dark Money Man: How Sean Noble Moved the Kochs’ Cash into Politics and Made Millions

For a brief, giddy moment, Sean Noble—a little-known former aide to an Arizona congressman—became one of the most important people in American politics.

Plucked from obscurity by libertarian billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, Noble was tasked with distributing a torrent of political money raised by the Koch network, a complex web of nonprofits nicknamed the Kochtopus, into conservative causes in the 2010 and 2012 elections.

Noble handed out almost $137 million in 2012 alone -- all of it so-called dark money from unnamed donors -- from his perch atop the Center to Protect Patient Rights, a group run out of an Arizona post office box.

Much of it was channeled to obvious destinations: Groups supporting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, for example.

But with Noble as ringmaster, Koch money also poured into efforts that didn’t surface until long after Election Day: To a political committee backing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker against a recall attempt; to a group blaming President Obama for high gas prices; even to a legal challenge to Arizona’s redistricting plan.

“I must tell you that Sean Noble from your group has been immensely helpful in our efforts,” a California multimillionaire wrote to Charles Koch in October 2012, asking Koch to give several million to support an anti-union initiative in the state. “Thanks for any consideration.”...

Much of Noble’s work in 2012 remained invisible to the public until the Center and dozens of other Koch-backed nonprofits released their tax returns late last year...

In an email, Rob Tappan, spokesman for Koch Industries, did not respond to specific questions from ProPublica about Noble or the Center, but acknowledged Noble “was a consultant for Koch in the past and attended Koch seminars.” Tappan likened Noble to Jim Messina, who was Obama’s campaign manager, and Paul Begala, a chief strategist for Bill Clinton in his first presidential run.
It is unclear if Noble still does work for the Kochs. According to Pro Pulblica, a  California investigation, coupled with poor election results, weakened Noble’s influence on the Koch network and shrank the Center’s role within it.

If he is, he is doing so with a much lower profile, But whoever is behind the attack on Rand, it is a very serious player, guys like Noble do not come cheap, and it is going to be a very serious problem for Rand.

-RW

2 comments:

  1. To destroy a viral movement you must attenuate the viruses DNA to such an extent that the virus no longer carries the potency to do any real damage. Operatives within the Washington apparatus first divided the Ron Paul revolution in two by seriously diluting the message with Ron Paul's only political heir, Rand Paul. Secondly, veiled neocons within the Ron Paul campaign made sure that Ron ran as a Republican in 2012, thereby branding the Republican party as the means of accomplishing the revolution. Third the Republican party squelched Ron Paul's message in all the 2012 debates by giving him only one minute or less in any of the debates. Fourth, Republican party minions seized control of the agar that nourished the virus locally by using strong arm tactics, and voting manipulation to retake control at the county committeeman level. Fifth, the veiled neocon's within Ron Paul's campaign folded his tent mysteriously long before the convention and permanently damaged the viral code as fever still riddled it's victims. Sixth, Rand Paul, the boy narcissist at the center of plan to fully attenuate the virus, was made to believe that he was the leader of the reconfigured DNA strand, and weakened the virus further with every word he spoke. Seventh, operatives within the Republican apparatus are now extinguishing the last remnants of Ron Paul's viral message by attacking Rand Paul head on as they seek to bury the Paul name forever in the graveyard of extinct viral movements.

    Captain Ahab is reborn as some people have so lashed themselves to the great white whale, known as Ron Paul, that they fail to realize that the great white whale is going under the waves as we speak, and will carry their dreams with him. Past success does not translate into future success, because when you stand still, events easily out run your antiquated dreams.

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    1. Yeah. I think so too. I might have described the presidency as the whale, but your metaphor makes sense, tooo...kinda. My mental picture had Ron as Ahab, bound to the whale and drowned with his free arm seeming to beckon his followers to chase the whale into the deep where they will all drown..... Dag. I watch too many old movies.

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