Reps Loyal To The Koch Brothers

THE KOCH CAUCUS
REPRESENTATIVE KOCH CASH Akin, Todd (R-MO) $2000 Amash, Justin (R-MI) $2500 Brooks, Mo (R-AL) $0 Buerkle, Ann Marie (R-NY) $1250 Burton, Dan (R-IN) $0 Chabot, Steve (R-OH) $21000 Chaffetz, Jason (R-UT) $2500 Coffman, Mike (R-CO) $0 Flake, Jeff (R-AZ) $12300 Fleming, John (R-LA) $0 Franks, Trent (R-AZ) $7500 Garrett, Scott (R-NJ) $23000 Gowdy, Trey (R-SC) $7000 Graves, Tom (R-GA) $7500 Harris, Andy (R-MD) $15000 Herger, Wally (R-CA) $6000 Huelskamp, Tim (R-KS) $15900 Huizenga, Bill (R-MI) $2500 Jordan, Jim (R-OH) $5000 Labrador, Raul (R-ID) $3500	REPRESENTATIVE KOCH CASH Lamborn, Doug (R-CO) $20000 Landry, Jeff (R-LA) $0 Lummis, Cynthia (R-WY) $7500 Manzullo, Donald (R-IL) $0 Marchant, Kenny (R-TX) $19000 McClintock, Tom (R-CA) $1000 McHenry, Patrick (R-NC) $2500 Mulvaney, Mick (R-SC) $7000 Neugebauer, Randy (R-TX) $24000 Pence, Mike (R-IN) $20750 Quayle, Benjamin (R-AZ) $6000 Ribble, Reid (R-WI) $10000 Ross, Dennis (R-FL) $12500 Schmidt, Jean (R-OH) $0 Schweikert, Dave (R-AZ) $10000 Southerland, Steve (R-FL) $5000 Stutzman, Marlin (R-IN) $2500 Walberg, Tim (R-MI) $27000 Walsh, Joe (R-IL) $0 Wilson, Joe (R-SC) $1000
All U.S. Representatives who were given perfect records from Americans For Prosperity for their 2011 votes. Lifetime Koch Industries political contributions, from Center for Responsive Politics data.

We all know that the House of Representatives has a Republican caucus and a teabagger caucus, both of which have tried to do serious damage to this country in recent months. But there is another group, or "caucus", in the House that may be even more pernicious than those two. The good folks over at Think Progress have dubbed it the Koch Caucus (because it is made up of representatives that always vote for what's good for the giant corporations, regardless of how much damage to small businesses and individual American citizens).

The chart above shows the representatives that were rated as voting with a "perfect" rating by the group Americans for Prosperity (an ultra-right-wing organization funded primarily by the ultra-rich Koch brothers). The chart also shows the amount of money each of them has received from Koch Industries.

These are the people who think corporations should get huge subsidies and shouldn't have to pay their fair share in taxes. They're also true believers that would like to cut or privatize Social Security, abolish Medicare, severely limit or completely eliminate unemployment benefits, abolish the EPA, eliminate the minimum wage, etc.

I suspect most of them are in safe Republican districts, but if possible, we need to make sure as many as possible do not get re-elected. If your congressperson is on the list, do what you can to see he/she is defeated in the coming election.