On Monday Jonathan Romeo authored another Durango Herald article that looked at Americans for Prosperity’s campaign against the land-use code that La Plata County’s duly elected County Commissioners are drafting. I’ve taken selected quotes from the article and annotated them with observations gleaned from my past few days researching Americans for Prosperity.
Americans for Prosperity launches campaign over La Plata County’s land-use code
Koch brothers-backed group says it will fight proposed rules
By Jonathan Romeo County & environment reporter
Monday, Jan. 29, 2018 | Durango Herald
“This plan is harmful in many ways to farmers and ranchers and grossly infringes on individuals’ property rights.”
{What about all the ways it’s helpful in dealing with serious growing pains? We can’t simply ignore this reality.}
Americans for Prosperity was founded in 2004 as a political arm of the billionaire Koch brothers, who owns the second largest privately held company in the U.S. …
{Here we touch on the fundamental problem with AFP, it was created to serve Koch’s interests.}
In the last eight years, Americans for Prosperity has turned to homing in on smaller communities in an effort to oust progressive elected officials and undercut the left’s command in grass-roots organizing.…
{Thus smother all opposition to Koch’s radical agenda for our government.}
