Well those Koch brothers shouldn’t have given that half a percent of what the Hewlett Foundation gave, those bastards!
Wow that’s a lot of money. Good thing it wasn’t a conservative organization donating it to another conservative organization, or there might be trouble:
…it is beyond irony and parody to take in again the fixation with Heartland’s tiny $4.4 million budget last year next to the recent news that the Climate Works Foundation, one of the major climate campaign organizations, just got another $100 million fillip from the Hewlett Foundation. This brings the grand total of Hewlett grants to Climate Works to nearly $600 million. I believe this one grant history to just one organization rivals the total combined assets of all the main conservative foundations. And these folks get their knickers in a twist about Heartland and the Koch brothers?
That’s Steven Hayward at Powerline.
In case you’re wondering, the Hewlett Foundation “has been making grants since 1967 to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world.” That’s how they describe themselves. They’ve got a searchable database of past grants, if you’re interested.
Wow that’s a lot of money. And let’s be clear: we conservatives have no quibble whatsoever with private citizens pooling their resources through an organization like the Hewlett Foundation to support causes they believe in. But we also know the same standards aren’t applied to their money as are applied to conservative money.
Just imagine if the Koch Brothers had given even two percent of that to ALEC, or Americans for Prosperity, or Heartland.
Related note: the Koch Brothers donated to Democrats in 2008. And in 2012, too. President Obama got a grand from them. This year.
It’s a strange, strange world.
And by the way, “fillip” is a real word. As a noun, it means “Something that acts as a stimulus or boost to an activity.” I’d never seen that one before.
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