Politics

Wisconsin Surprise: Walker Bill Likely Handing State Assets To Walker-Supporter Koch Industries

By Lisa Graves

By Dave Johnson -- In a new revelation about Governor Walker?s ?Budget Repair? bill, the Center for Media and Democracy has learned that a provision of the measure allows the sale of ?any state?owned heating, cooling, and power plant? and does this ?with or without solicitation of bids.? 

And just who is the likely recipient of no-bid state sales of publicly-owned heating, cooling and power facilities? That would most likely be companies controlled by the brothers David and Charles Koch, owners of Koch Industries, and big financial supporters of Governor Scott Walker. The Koch brothers have also funded groups that are attempting to create a crisis atmosphere over the state?s budget, leading up to the attempt to pass this bill that could result in the low-cost transfer of state assets to their company.

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Full post as published by PR Watch on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).