Dark Money

“I'm going to quote from the book Dark Money here. Carnell Green was a pipeline technician and gas meter serviceman for KO Industries when he ran a foul of the management.”

“It happens a shitload in the KO story. This is the only time we're bringing up it here, but in Dark Money and in other reports, there's a ton of times where Ko Security, they're like, "By the way, we're FBI."”

“I'm going to quote from Dark Money here. Please. in support of building their own youth movement.”

“Here's dark money. Participants at the summits, for instance, were routinely admonished to destroy all copies of any paperwork. Be mindful of the security and confidentiality of your meeting notes and materials, the invitation to one gathering warned.”

“But overall, the Koch efforts were wildly successful as Jane Mayer summarized in dark money. Thanks in no small part to huge quantities of targeted money spent by the Koes and their allied donors, the Democratic Party lost both houses of Congress, 14 governorships, and 30 state legislatores, compromising more than 900 seats during Obama's presidency.”

“when he saw his son Chase play what Dark Money describes as a half-hearted tennis match. Charles ordered him sent to work in a filthy feed lot seven days a week, 12 hours a day until he got better at tennis, presumably.”

“She wrote a book Dark Money in 2016 that delved into their past and the network of billionaire influencers they assembled to change American politics.”

“In her book Dark Money, Mayer quotes a family friend of the Kochs as saying, "The fact that the judge was bribed completely altered their view of justice. They believe justice can be bought and the rules are for chumps."”

“The Kochs are being raised by a nanny, uh and dark money does not make this nanny sound like the cuddling kind.”

“Um now a major source for the book Dark Money and for this podcast uh as a result was an unpublished report about Charles Koch written by a professor named Clayton Coppin.”

“Um anyway, the the report that he wrote was like a book-length report. It's unpublished, but uh Mayer, the journalist who wrote Dark Money, got a copy of it and she quotes from it liberally.”

“Uh so, my only issue with Dark Money, which I think is a deeply important book, is that it declares Koch and his fellow travelers to be anarchists. Uh they are not.”

“Uh so, I find this quote from Dark Money to be rather revealing. Quote, a former doorman described Koch as the cheapest person in the building. We would load up his trucks, two vans usually, every weekend for the Hamptons, in and out, in and out, heavy bags.”

“And he does use that like resist language a lot. He's described in Dark Money as almost being being a a like a a linen Marx sort of theorist Mhm.”

“uh number two dark money by Jane Mayer a previous guest here on the podcast”

“Jane Mayer is here now to talk about her new book dark money the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right”

“the book again is dark money the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right by Jane Mayer reviewed on our cover this week by Alan aronal”

“I mean probably most famously by Jane Mayer and dark money and in the New Yorker as well as by Daniel Schulman whose book sons of Witchita is really about the family story of the Cokes”

“it's made politics its business and it's made politics its business although very secretively and I think that that was something that Jane Mayer really exposed and and parsed in her book dark dark money”

“probably the best or most well-known of the coch critics is the investigative journalist and author Jane Mayer in her book dark money the the hidden history of billionaires behind the rise of the radical right”

“I haven't read Jane Mayer's book, but people have asked me about various pieces and there are some facts, right? Most of the facts that I'm familiar with are wrong.”

“There's a book called Dark Money. It's a term people have been using for forever.”

“Jane Mayer will be here to talk about her new book dark money the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right”

“then at number five another topical book the reporter and New Yorker staff writer Jane mayor uh has written a book called Dark money”

“Jane Mayer, the journalist, one of the leaders of the anti-Koch movement, in her book, Dark Money, blames you for fueling, quote, the rise of the radical right.”

“so again taking a page out of a conservatives Playbook I read Jane Mayer's book dark money on the Koch brothers who have invested heavily for years in building for-profit companies and non-profit organizations and infrastructure on the right”