Tea Party in Georgia opposes Koch agenda
Social conservatism can go along with economic populism. How do we get TP populists to ignore the former in favor of the latter.
http://www.nationofchange.org/not-tea-party-koch-brothers-had-mind-1374035666
The Koch brothers can’t buy a break—literally. Not even from the Tea Party.
Last week the Tea Party Patriots helped push a proposal through Georgia’s Public Service Commission that requires the state’s largest electric utility to more than double the amount of solar power it uses.
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Opposing the plan was a local chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a front group for the Koch brothersand supporter of various Tea Party efforts.
Despite exaggerated warnings from Americans for Prosperity about the massive rate increases and losses in power reliability, the Patriots were unconvinced and instead viewed the expansion of solar power capacity as as an expansion of the free market, as well as providing customers with more energy sources to choose from
