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MT rules, ME ponders, and Howie Rich buys S. Carolina?
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He successfully avoided public scrutiny during the past three decades, so the daily flow of media coverage during the past few months may have proven especially aggravating to Howie Rich of New York City, the "sugar daddy" sponsoring the myriad ballot measures for eminent domain/"regulatory takings" and the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights across the continent. That aggravation compounds the intervention of good public officials doing their jobs, from Missouri's Secretary of State to the Michigan Board of Canvassers to the Supreme Courts of Oklahoma, Nevada and, now, Montana, which upheld last week the ruling of District Court Judge Dirk Sandefur, finding "pervasive fraud" in the circulation of Rich's petitions there.
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Taking stock of the Koch Machine, Part IV
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Trilogies have beginnings, middles and ends. Think of "Star Wars," "Lord of the Rings," "The Godfather." I've used up my trilogy points in the little series I posted on Howie Rich's old friends Charles and David Koch, arguably his most successful associates from their National Libertarian Party days. I introduced them in a prologue to the series, outlined a bit of their history in business and Libertarian philosophy in Part I, sketched their connections to conservative/Republican politics and the Dubya administration in Part II, and highlighted in Part III their coup de grace, their purchase of Georgia-Pacific. It made their company, Koch Industries, the largest privately-owned company in America (does that mean the world, too?).
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Early judgments issued on Howie Rich's TABORs
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Finding a knowledgeable, disinterested soul who likes Howie Rich's so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights is like finding sweet tea north of the Mason-Dixon. It's rare. And where you find it, it's likely imported: a weak impostor, sweetened with something artificial and bottled with a pretty sticker. Consider the long list - and it's growing longer by the day, it seems - of those standing up against TABOR in person, in writing, in hale and hearty voice. The roster includes nearly every knowledgeable lady or gentleman to be found, plus nearly every town, city, board of this, council of that and committee of the other. Scratch only lightly the few who profess some appreciation for it, and you're likely to find someone who has a stake in its political ideology, OR someone who's relying haphazardly, with uncertainty, on the word of another. But the day of judgment comes, and that right soon, and regular folks and editors alike are getting their word in now, striking while the iron is hot.
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Owens on TABOR, Fund on judges, threats from Graves
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In some strange combination of political jujitsu and amnesia, Colorado Govenor Bill Owens announced this week that he endorses Howie Rich's so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights on Maine's ballot, not two full years after Owens announced his intent to suspend TABOR in his state when Republicans lost control of the legislature. No matter; the Maine Chamber of Commerce has joined the choir of the rational in opposing the measure anyway. Predictably, Mary Adams - who was offended that Maine's Bishop consulted the Almighty but not herself before announcing his opposition to TABOR - is offended again that the chamber didn't adopt her advice. Sigh. But if Owens's and Adams's contortions are comical, so are the discombobulations of the Wall Street Journal's editorialist John Fund, who now blames the failure of Rich's ballot initiatives across the Midwest and West on "activist judges" rather than the incompetence of professional petition circulators who didn't deliver the product.
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Taking stock of the Koch Machine, Part III
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In August, I posted a trio of diaries about a pair of brothers who are arguably Howie Rich's two most successful friends, Charles and David Koch, the owners of Koch Industries of Wichita, Kansas. Rich and the Kochs became associated in the 1970s during an ill-fated attempt to take over the National Libertarian Party from the inside. In spite of the public promise of continued funding from David Koch if an anointed slate was elected at convention in 1983, party delegates unceremoniously rejected the wing that included Rich, the Kochs, Eric O'Keefe and Leslie Graves, Ed Crane and others. So it vacated the party and, afterward, various individuals and combinations of them established their own de facto political party structure, sans the bother of delegates, through a nearly inscrutible web of committees, institutes, foundations and university centers - and most recently, a new strain of state-based operatives.
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Gadflies, fishing expeditions and "pigs at the trough"
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Oregonian reporter Laura Oppenheimer, who attended Howie Rich's first annual Americans for Limited Government conference in Chicago and reported watching Rich "dance away" from the table, now has Rich's number - and his email address. Her extensive new article - featuring fascinating original research - paints a picture of a dapper but ruthless orchestrator who avoids public attention - even "chafes" at it - while "scouring" the nation for activists to carry out his "cohesive, efficient national effort" to rewrite state tax policies and property rights laws. It was through that "scouring" that he apparently found Mary Adams, who this week attacked Maine's public employees and their associations as "pigs at the trough," and Laird Maxwell, the "gadfly" who's now leaving Idaho for Arizona, but will "run things" in both states, he declares. But there's a bright spot in tonight's report, constant reader. God Himself, Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent, has announced - through a spokesman, of course - that He's opposed to Rich's so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights. I wouldn't mislead you about a thing like this.
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L.A. Times: Now he's a victim of "character assassination"
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Add the Los Angeles Times to the growing list of major national media outlets informing Americans of the behind-the-scenes involvement of Howie Rich of New York City in the ballot measures of several states this year, and add "entrepreneur" to the growing list of his descriptors. Add, too, "character assassination" to the list of malefactions proclaimed by Rich to the reporters doing their work. Given the givens, surely someone doth protest too much. Rich isn't hogging the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights coverage tonight, however; a host of his ideological lieutenants collect their own shares: Laird Maxwell with a shockingly impolitic announcement in Idaho, Trevis Butcher for his "fishing expedition" in Montana, and Mike Groene of Nebraska's "Stuff on a Shingle" initiative. (I'm not making it up.) And of course, there's Maine and its steady drip-drip of TABOR opposition resolutions.
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ME leaders hit Howie Rich's TABOR, ND front opens
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Three out of four town/city councils surveyed recommend that Mainers who vote should vote against Howie Rich's so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights, namely Farmington, Manchester and Brewer. Meanwhile, reporter Kim Fletcher of Maine's Lincoln County News publishes the very best exposition of TABOR composed by any journalist I've read to date, and I recommend it as highly as I recommend Edgar Allen Beem's column in the current edition of The Forecaster. You'll want to bring some aloe gel for afterward, though, to soothe the burn. Finally, from the West come words of wisdom from a retired justice of the Montana Supreme Court, caution from editors who see endless litigation already beginning, and a preview of things to come from a different tentacle of the Howie Rich network, now opening shop in North Dakota. Buckle up, constant reader; the runway is short.
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Egad! Howie Rich decries "outright lies and distortions"!
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Verdicts on Howie Rich's so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights are being rendered across Maine, with more town managers and police chiefs sounding the alarm against it, and the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce giving it a solid thumbs-down on the same day that the Portland Regional Chamber gave it only "conditional" support, contingent on legislative fixes that will render it harmless. Meanwhile, the Maine chapter of the National Organization for Women issues a scathing review of TABOR's damage to the lives of women and children in Colorado, and Maine's teachers draw down funds from the National Education Association to educate voters about TABOR's fine print. Howie Rich's project gets no better treatment in the West, as a Montana columnist warns against its "radical Libertarian message" and another pair of California reporters catches him at the helm of Proposition 90.
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New York Times catches onto TABOR's Howie Rich
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Howie Rich made the New York Times this weekend - and the Omaha World-Herald, and the Las Vegas Sun, and the Kennebec Journal, and the News-Tribune of Tacoma, Washington. Add that to the coverage he's gotten from the Oregonian, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, the Lewiston Sun-Journal, the Helena Independent Review and PBS NOW, and you might say that this reclusive New York City real estate developer who dislikes publicity - he communicates with the media mainly through email, for example - has had a bad few months. Notwithstanding the waste of $14 million in funds spent to put the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights on various state ballots. But wait: from Laird Maxwell of Idaho comes a correction, constant reader. Rich is not a real estate developer, he's an "apartment owner." It's a quote, folks.
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TABOR paper chase to cost millions of taxpayers
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For want of a competent petition circulation company, a number of so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights ballot measures were lost this year in a handful of states across the country. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the combined price tag for those losses now tops $14 million, and the man with most cause to be disturbed by that result is Howie Rich of New York City, who caused those funds to be disbursed to various cells in those states. But in their anger, those hewing to Rich's agenda and ideology are lashing out at taxpayers in Oregon, Arizona, Idaho, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska and Nevada, filing records requests that promise to snarl local governments for weeks and cost the taxpayers in those states upwards of hundreds of thousands of dollars. So much for cutting the expense of government, boys. We've got taxpayers to rob.
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San Francisco Chronicle finds Howard Rich behind TABOR
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There's a little irony in this. San Francisco was the first home of the Cato Institute, founded in 1977 by various Libertarians orbiting one another while laying track for their ill-advised takeover of the National Libertarian Party. In those days, Howie Rich of New York was, for lack of better description, a Libertarian political operative, assigned to run low-level campaigns inside the party. His wing of the Libertarian "movement" oversold its prospects in the 1980 presidential election, and the fallout from it led to a real falling-out, with Rich colleague Eric O'Keefe deposed as national party director and Cato pulling up stakes for Washington, D.C. So it is pure poetry that among all the possible national media outlets choosing to investigate and lay bare Rich's strategery - his attempt to strangle state governments across the country with a so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights - it's the San Francisco Chronicle that does it.
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