Thursday, March 1, 2012

Obama steps up anti-Koch campaign with online petition

In a series of tweets, United States President Barack Obama announced a new stage of his campaign against private businessmen and free-market philanthropists Charles and David Koch, this time attacking the non-profit organization Americans for Prosperity with a petition to “demand that the Koch brothers make their donors public.”

In the initial tweet, the president wrote to campaign manager Jim Messina and the general public, typing, “@Messina2012 challenges the Koch brothers to disclose the donors funding their attacks ads.” In a follow-up three minutes later, the president tweeted, “Add your name to demand that the Koch brothers make their donors public.”

Twitter users who click the provided link are brought to an official my.barackobama.com website titled “Demand the truth” with a space to give their names, email addresses and zip codes, complete with a campaign message that reads, “Americans for Prosperity, the special-interest front group run by the oil billionaire Koch brothers, is claiming that its donors are ‘tens of thousands’ of folks ‘from all walks of life.’”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/29/obama-steps-up-anti-koch-campaign-with-online-petition/#ixzz1nrQeeh5l

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