green critics assert that americans for prosperity are essentially just a low being tool for koch industries david koch deliberately founded these groups to intervene in the government to reduce taxes on corporations to reduce the impact of environmental laws. that intersected with rock became the tea party movement an uprising against the government and against governments writ large against taxes and against health care regulations so they basically used this public sentiment to forward their corporate agenda this charge of profiteering is especially evident and i have peace or position to propose climate change that would have come profits of oil industry players like koch industries. in two thousand and nine after the obama administration came on there was massive momentum towards climate regulation suddenly there was a real possibility of getting new good laws passed and they went into high gear attacking obama from day one even started before the obama administration attacking any climate legislation they would run for years these summer hot air tours where they run what looks like a g

offices of koch industries to recognize the forty third anniversary of the assassination of the reverend dr martin luther king jr who was killed while supporting the rights of sanitation workers to unionize in tennessee the koch brothers were a target yesterday because they bankrolled efforts around the nation to attack the rights of union workers to look at some of the scenes in the rally. despite the fact that last week's tea party gathering here in d.c. that garnered a few dozen people has picked up on loads of different media outlets fox out of their yesterday's protest with far more people receive no mainstream news coverage what's so ever why is that with more on this plus the latest on what's going on with the koch brothers lapdog scott walker in wisconsin i'm joined by reporter and blogger at think progress alex sites well alex welcome to the program thanks so much for me i'll come back thank you great to have you. protest yesterday what kind of press was on hand and how come we didn't see anything about this for a while i was on hand but aside from that i saw a few foreign press

abolish the jack and bennett amendment now before the november midterm elections if you work for koch industries as in many of the. koch brothers you see the pack in the mail you received this package and a letter from the president and the president of companies saying that for the first time ever they were sending all u.s. employees what they called a helpful tips for the names of their homes that told them what candidates to vote for and about what koch industries sees as the proper role of business in society earlier i was joined by a michaela he's a labor journalist and he together with mark ams another journalist broke this story in the nation magazine and i asked him if this is evidence that the u.s. is entering a new era of corporate politicking and election propaganda here's part of our conversation. now cooperations under systems united can hold a captive audience meetings with workers hand outsiders like this pressure workers into voting for candidates now this was outlawed by the national labor relations act the corporation now can have employees sit around like something please have

and i have a car like they have primarily an oil refining conglomerates through their company koch industries and the third and fourth richest people in america now and big companies consider the second largest private company in the country so they have very very wealthy people what they want is by sickly to create a privatized america they what they call free market capitalist they hardly ideological and they buy sickly trying to get government out of the white so people like them can can pretty much do business in any way they truths right so they want to do a takeover of america and they're doing this by creating this tea party movement basically and it's quite remarkable right because the tea party folks who follow it seems to be arguing in protesting and demonstrating against their own interests tell us about what is happening in wisconsin and the koch brothers role there what is their role in governor walker's agenda how does a brothers benefit from what he is pushing before we go to that is probably quite it is an important point that you mentioned before which is people going against

thanks so much now before the november midterm elections if you work for koch industries as in the company of the billionaire koch brothers you received a packet and a letter for the president from your present rather we have here is this one it was saying that for the first time ever they were sending all u.s. employees at home helpful items telling them what candidates to vote for and about the proper role of business in society now here with us is my calc he's a labor journalist who with mark ames broke this story in the nation magazine and he's here to tell us that this is evidence that the u.s. is entering a new era of corporate politicking and election propaganda mike thanks for being with us you just broke this story i want to know why this is so concerning to you by such a big deal well we've entered a new era where now corporations under citizens united can hold a captive audience meetings with workers hand out flyers like this pressure workers and do voting for candidates and this was outlawed by the national labor relations that a corporation can have an employee sit around like

koch brothers. if you look at the tax records of democrats and republicans, they took money from wall street, they took money from oil, from the banking industry. then when they go up here and pretend like they are fighting for the working people, the workers have been true -- totally misled. that is why i became an independent a few years ago and i see this back-and-forth. boehner and cantor on the so- called right and obama and -- on the left, you just have to google their tax money. taking money from the banking industry, and so have the republicans. both parties. this did not just start yesterday. host: from "the wall street journal," budget is boehner's big test. bill has this comment on our twitter page -- >> is donald, a federal employee, joining us from massachusetts. caller: good morning. i find it very interesting that the deficit hawks had a chance to include their pay and the government shutdown, which was promptly defeated -- in the government shut down. don't do as i do, do as i say. if the country really wants to recover, institute a flat fair tax for everybody. host: front page of "the new york times." policy takes center stage