caller on Stephanie Miller right now: "Koch Klux Klan" - says daddy Koch founded Birchers

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[LuvNewcastle]

1. I've seen several DUers say the same thing. I haven't looked it up myself.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. "Founding member", per Wikipedia, cites several sources.

The society was established in Indianapolis, Indiana, on December 9, 1958, by a group of 12 led by Robert Welch, Jr., a retired candy manufacturer from Belmont, Massachusetts. Welch named the new organization after John Birch, an American Baptist missionary and United States military intelligence officer who had been shot by communist forces in China in August 1945, shortly after the conclusion of World War II. Welch claimed that Birch was an unknown but dedicated anti-communist,[8] and the first American casualty of the Cold War.[citation needed]

Fred Koch, founder of Koch Industries, was one of the founding members.[26][27][28][29] Robert Waring Stoddard, President of Wyman-Gordon, a major industrial enterprise, was also among the founders.[30] Another was Revilo P. Oliver, a University of Illinois professor who later severed his relationship with the society and helped found the National Alliance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society#Origins

[2naSalit]

3. But wait

There's more...

[LibertyLover]

4. From what I've read

Daddy Koch was one of the founding member of the John Birch Society, but not THE founder. Still, you know a person by the company they keep.