John —
Before the rise of the Tea Party, Koch Industries gave PAC money to quite a few Democrats — but over the past decade, those donations have needled down to just a few of the most loyal conservative Democrats in Congress.
And Henry Cuellar made the cut. Since 2004, he’s been a favorite of the libertarian, pro-oil, anti-working class PAC:
Why does the Libertarian Koch Industries love Henry Cuellar and his Blue Dog Democrat allies so much? Easy answer: oil. Henry Cuellar has been one of the strongest allies of the oil industry, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from the industry.
And he just issued a very public and very vitriolic condemnation of the Green New Deal — spreading lies about how it would affect Texas, and parroting blatant Republican talking points about the only real answer we have to the climate crisis.
Corporate Democrats are mortgaging our future to protect the fortunes of oil and gas barons. That’s morally repugnant, and we’re going to stop it.
In solidarity,
Justice Democrats