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Koch Industries Would Like to Introduce You to Their Robots
Hamilton Nolan · 06/10/14 10:28AMNow Koch Industries Is Telling Employees Who to Vote For
Taylor Berman · 10/14/12 11:21PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18271f23voi3ijpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Just a week after Westgate Resorts CEO David Siegel wrote a partially plagiarized letter threatening to fire employees if they voted for Obama, now comes news that Koch Industries is taking a similar approach by using its position as a major employer to influence elections. According to an In These Times report, the Koch-owned Georgia Pacific sent a packet to its 45,000 employees earlier his month. The packet included a cover letter from Koch Industries President and Chief Operating Officer Dave Robertson which reads, in part:
Koch Money Is Better Than Government Money
Lauri Apple · 08/21/11 01:48PMFeds Raid Three New York Teens in Anonymous Probe
Adrian Chen · 08/10/11 12:25PMPranksters Triumph Over Koch Brothers
Adrian Chen · 05/10/11 01:30PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k1whzqvx36hjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Last December, pranksters set up a spoofed website for Koch Industries, America's largest producer of crude evil, and sent out a boring fake press release claiming they were reforming their climate-destroying ways. The super-sensitive billionaire conservative Koch brothers promptly sued them for a bunch of bullshit like "infringement of trademark" and "unfair competition." (Didn't know the Kochs were getting into the spoofing-themselves biz.)
Koch Execs Respond to Wisconsin Governor's Prank Call
Jim Newell · 02/25/11 05:17PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k25910hb7jbjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Koch Industries executives are reacting to the prank call pulled on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) this week, where a blogger got through to the governor by posing as David Koch. In an interview with National Review Online, Koch Industries executive vice president Richard Fink says the Koch brothers will not "back off."
Koch Industries Cannot Buy Decent PR Advice
Hamilton Nolan · 02/14/11 09:52AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k276wox3gmpjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Koch Industries is—and we say this strictly in the spirit of presenting their prevalent public image in an unfiltered manner—an evil mysterious Death Star-like conglomerate controlled by two unimaginably wealthy unaccountable right-wing billionaire brothers, who are evil. The Koch brothers have made news recently for hosting a secret conservative conclave to plot who-knows-what, and for harassing journalists. They're also suing a group of pranksters who issued a fake Koch press release. Today, the NYT gave the company a chance to defend itself in the court of public opinion. Anddddd....