longtime critics just aren’t buying it. Tia Lessin, who co-directed the documentary Citizen Koch, which was critical of the brothers’ use of money in politics, dismissed their criminal justice efforts. “Over the years, the Kochs have deployed a small fortune to attack laws and public policies that protect society’s most vulnerable—the sick, the elderly, the working poor. This is the latest in a PR campaign to re-brand the billionaire extremists as men who care about ‘the disadvantaged,’” Lessin said. And Robert Greenwald, the filmmaker behind Koch Brothers Exposed, pointed out that Kochs had spent millions and millions on Republican candidates who might oppose criminal justice reform, far more than on the issue of criminal justice reform itself. “I look forward to the day the Kochs… instruct their staff to no longer fund candidates who work against improving the safety of Americans,” Greenwald said. “The Kochs’ words about criminal justice cannot be taken seriously until they back up their words with their dollars by ceasing to fund the numerous organizations, think tanks, and elected officials who believe locking up more and more people will make us safer.”
Posted on: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 02:57:19 +0000
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