Why don’t the Kochs just buy the whole damn town state country?

Welcome to Pottersville KochVille:

The billionaire brothers whose political action committee gave Gov. Scott Walker $43,000 and helped fund a multi-million dollar attack ad campaign against his opponent during the 2010 gubernatorial election have quietly opened a lobbying office in Madison just off the Capitol Square.

Location! Location! Location!

Remember that group the Kochs back called Americans for Union Busting Prosperity? Well, Tim Phillips, president of said group, admitted that he had encouraged Walker to take on the unions even before the elections.  How nice that they get along so well.

There is one teensy weensy giggle among all this infoflatulence:

Koch Industries, which owns the Georgia-Pacific Corporation and the Koch Pipeline Company, operates gasoline supply terminals and a toilet paper factory in Wisconsin.

How appropriate. I will refrain from making distasteful jokes.

Now back to the infoflatulence already in progress. The lobbying interests include “the environment, energy, taxation, business, policy and other areas affecting Koch Industries, Inc. companies.”  It gets better… they registered with the state two days after Walker took office. Not that there was any rush.

The expanded lobbying effort by the Koch brothers in Wisconsin raises red flags in particular because of a little discussed provision in Walker’s repair bill that would allow Koch Industries and other private companies to purchase state-owned power plants in no-bid contracts.

I posted about that part of Walker’s little plan here.

And to rub salt in the wound, Think Progress has this:

Today, the Koch group Americans for Prosperity announced that it will air an ad smearing the protesters in Madison and calling on the state to support Walker’s power grab.

On Wisconsin.