In Palm Springs, California, this past weekend, one set of rich folks was the target of another set of rich folks. It is, uniquely, an American story. Here’s how it played out: The Koch brothers, Charles and David, held a closed-door meeting with their political allies at a local hotel. Outside, Common Cause, with plenty of support from the Center for American Progress and several others, held a protest, saying that the Koch meeting shouldn’t have been private and that the billionaire brothers were up to no good.
Now, the Kochs are billionaires, and they’re involved in financing numerous political groups. Common Cause themselves are financed by at least one notorious billionaire – George Soros – and are involved in numerous political activities, but they seem to think there’s a problem that the Kochs are involved in politics, too.
