Conservative Billionaire David Koch Steps Down From Political, Business Roles

[hlthe2b]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/conservative-billionaire-david-koch-steps-down-from-political-business-roles_us_5b169eb5e4b074b9e089fdf1



David Koch, who with his brother Charles has built a powerful conservative political network, is stepping down from his family’s conglomerate and his leadership of Americans for Prosperity, the network’s signature political organization.

The 78-year-old is retiring due to declining health, his brother wrote to Koch Industries employees Tuesday. In October 2016, David Koch announced to employees that his health was declining and he had been hospitalized over the summer.

“Unfortunately, these issues have not been resolved and his health has continued to deteriorate,” Charles Koch wrote in the letter. “As a result, he is unable to be involved in business and other organizational activities.”


*********** Remember, when you buy your truckload of tissues to deal with your "sadness"on this development, AVOID: GA Pacific produced (Koch Bros) brands. Kleenex, however, are ok.

The Koch brothers have used their political network to move the Republican Party and the whole of American politics in a libertarian direction, and David Koch was the Libertarian Party’s vice presidential nominee in 1980. They have founded and heavily funded multiple groups backing the Republican Party and conservative ideas, becoming the bête noire of many Democrats.

[Sophia4]

1. What is the illness?

[hlthe2b]

2. He's not saying, but his brother is a cancer survivor & David was hospitalized last summer...

[SoCalDem]

3. MSNBC reported earlier

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he had prostate cancer decades ago..maybe it's back?? But then anytime one is over 65, anything can happen..

We lost a friend recently who died 6 months after his diagnosis

[hlthe2b]

4. well, I have never been one to wish anyone ill, but I'm glad he's leaving his intensely harmful

activities/businesses. I will be content if some of that stops/slows down and David Koch can live his life in peace. Of course those who replace him may be equally bad, but one can hope.

[Hortensis]

18. Charles Koch is the powerhouse. Don't expect anything

to stop/slow down.

As for living in peace, David Koch is a big-time criminal and thief and is responsible for not just injuries and illness, but deaths, caused by their proud illegal flouting of regulations written to protect workers and others from people like them. They've also injected a great deal of corruption into our systems, threatening the very continuance of our democracy, as they fully intended.

He does not deserve peace, but there is nothing a civilized society could do to balance these scales. I'd see him spend his remaining life in prison and die there if I could anyway, though.

[John Fante]

6. Conservatism.

[Exotica]

21. Thread winner!!

[JNelson6563]

5. Ok, I'm not going to lie

When I read that headline my first thought was "Good, I hope that means he's not long for this world". #FuckThoseGuys

[Wwcd]

7. Their siege to carry on their fathers dream of the John Birch Society has to have a moment

of finality.

Bircher fringe groups, aka Libertarian, Tea Party etc, created specifically to end the Dem Party & American democracy will cease once the heads of the Bircher beast have passed into history.

What a horrible fate for us they wanted to bring about in America.

[Solly Mack]

8. What's the saying? In the end, the damage you take is equal to the damage you make?

Or something like that?

[John Fante]

9. Tots and pears.

[Ilsa]

20. I've lived a sheltered life.

What does that mean? Thank you.

[Exotica]

22. this

[Ilsa]

23. Okay, got it. Thanks. That is my first belly-laugh of the day.

[trueblue2007]

10. I WISH THEY WOULD BOTH GET OUT OF POLITICS.

[Demovictory9]

12. Yep

[Squinch]

11. Why do all these evil conservatives have faces that look like cat butts?

[eppur_se_muova]

13. That's just cats mocking conservatives.

If they relax their butts, they just look like Ziggy.

[Squinch]

17. lol!

[dalton99a]

14. Hopefully they all will go home to Satan ASAP

[Blue_true]

15. Declining health. Good, I hope he spends his last days serially shitting himself. nt

[eleny]

16. rec

[vercetti2021]

19. Is it bad to wish that his health declines substantially?

This man and his brother are evil scum and have fucked our country to death. Is it bad to wish him death?