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Feb. 02, 2011
26Dems Editorial Note: Rep. Paul Ryan is the architect of the GOP's Budget plan to pursue radical cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Congressman Ryan's office has confirmed his attendance at the Koch's secret meeting. Ryan did not mention the radical cuts the GOP has planned for Social Security and Medicare in the GOP response to the State of the Union. To understand Paul Ryan, check out Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowsky's take in A Frightening "Roadmap" for America in the Republican Rebuttal to the State of the Union and search this blog (upper left hand corner) for more references to Paul Ryan. The attendance of top elected Republican leaders like Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Rep. Ryan at corporate strategy meetings is further evidence that the GOP is coordinating electoral and fundraising strategy with billionaires who fund fake grassroots outrage through the Tea Party.
Last October, ThinkProgress helped break the story about secret political strategy meetings, convened by polluter billionaires Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, to coordinate the funding and direction of the conservative movement. Previous meetings have included Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia, top hedge fund managers like Cliff Asness, business executives, Republican strategists, and various other political operatives. Following the revelation of these meetings, a group of progressive organizations protested the most recent meeting in Rancho Mirage, California last weekend.
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