Guest EXPAT Posted August 8, 2012 Posted August 8, 2012 A Tennessee lawmaker is saying that President Obama is going to stage an assassination attempt on his life to impose martial law and delay the election. Tennessee is the gift that makes my home of Indiana look sane. Quote
Members lookin Posted August 8, 2012 Members Posted August 8, 2012 Thought this would be another run-of-the-mill whackjob until I got to the end of the article and the reference to his membersip in ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council, allegedly spawned by the Koch Brothers. An eyepopping read. Quote
Members lookin Posted August 8, 2012 Members Posted August 8, 2012 From the ALEC article: In 2012, Walter Mondale, former Democratic Vice President of the United States, and Arne Carlson, former Republican governor of Minnesota, referred in an op-ed piece to the political activities of the Koch family and ALEC, saying: "[ALEC] is the creation of the Koch brothers who amassed their fortunes in oil and who live in Florida. The goal of ALEC is to influence legislators across the nation." Journalist John Nichols opined in The Nation that the Koch brothers have provided funding to ALEC for "decades" in a "savage assault on democracy". Quote
AdamSmith Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 makes my home of Indiana look sane. !!! Would you know, or know of, one Joe Gordon? Indiana native who at one point seemed on the cusp of becoming a national Democratic party bigwig. Party chairman, or close. Then something seemingly went awry -- he crossed the Clinton (Bill) machine? Or something else? Curious partly from having gotten to know him as he was in my class at Jale in New Haven. Any intel, gossip or rumor would be welcome. Quote
Guest EXPAT Posted August 9, 2012 Posted August 9, 2012 No I don't. I haven't lived in Indiana though for the last 25 years. Quote
