BILLIONAIRE KOCH BROTHERS THREATEN EMPLOYEES BY SENDING 45,000 EMPLOYEES LETTERS ON THE DANGERS OF RE-ELECTING PREZ OBAMA

Brothers in charge: Charles (left) and David Koch (right) have supplied billions in political funding to conservative Republican candidates and have now told their employees who to vote for

Thousands of employees at companies owned by billionaire Republican fundraisers were told to vote for Mitt Romney in packet mailed to them warning of the dangers of an Obama re-election.
The mailer is easily traced back to David and Charles Koch, the notorious multi-billionaire brothers who have largely financed the Tea Party movement and served as effective Romney bundlers.
In These Times released excerpts from a letter sent to 45,000 employees at Georgia Pacific- a Koch-owned paper company based in Washington state- that was signed by the company's CEO Dave Robertson.
'While we are typically told before each Presidential election that it is important and historic, I believe the upcoming election will determine what kind of America future generations will inherit,' the letter reads.
It goes on to say that the dangers that loom with the wrong presidency would include 'unprecedented regulatory burdens on businesses' and threaten 'many of our more than 50,000 U.S. employees and contractors may suffer the consequences, including higher gasoline prices, runaway inflation, and other ills'.


The packet also included a list of state and local candidates supported by KOCHPAC, the political action committee led and funded by the Koch brothers.
Exerting such pressure on employees was not always legal, but recent Supreme Court decisions no longer prohibit companies from telling their employees who to vote for.

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 For appearances sake, however, the letter did include one line gesturing towards partiality: 'We believe any decision about which candidates to support is—as always—yours and yours alone, based on the factors that are most important to you.'

This is the second time in a week where an influential CEO warned his employees about the prospect of an Obama win come November.
Gawker published the letter written by Westgate Resorts owner David Siegel where he clearly said that if Romney won the presidential election, they would be more likely to keep their jobs.

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'The economy doesn't currently pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is another 4 years of the same Presidential administration. Of course, as your employer, I can't tell you whom to vote for, and I certainly wouldn't interfere with your right to vote for whomever you choose,' he wrote.
When it comes to the Kochs, the brothers prefer to remain behind the curtain rather than in the spotlight.
As a result, no members of the press were invited to their seaside $50,000-per-plate fundraiser for Romney in their Hamptons home this July.
There was a brief break in that privacy lately, however, as their other brother William now faces a lawsuit after he allegedly held a former employee hostage for two days.