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The Koch Brothers May Be In Your House Right Now

Liberals would love to wipe their bums with David and Charles Koch, the conservative businessmen who help fund and elevate conservative causes, like the Tea Party. Well, turns out they can…

The Koch brothers have been knocked by the left for lavishing millions of dollars on conservative lawmakers and causes, and the men are now under fire for donating $43,000 to Wisconsin’s union-busting governor, Scott Walker, and funding anti-union protests in the state.

With all the political back-and-forth surrounding the brothers, one can forget the economics behind the men: Charles and David Koch own what Forbes magazine described as the second largest privately owned company in the nation.

While most of Koch Industries revolves around energy and gas—including pipelines in Texas and Oklahoma, and refineries in Mississippi—it also owns the Georgia-Pacific paper company, which makes a bevy of popular products, like the following:

Angel Soft toilet paper
Brawny paper towels
Dixie plates, bowls, napkins and cups
Mardi Gras napkins and towels
Quilted Northern toilet paper
Soft ‘n Gentle toilet paper
Sparkle napkins
Vanity Fair napkins
Zee napkins

Those who are adamantly against the Koch brothers and their politics could, of course, show their disdain by avoiding these products, but that doesn’t mean your privates will still be safe from public machinations.

The nation’s other largest paper company, Kimberly-Clark, which produces Kleenex, Kotex, Cottonelle, Depends and Scott paper towel, to name a few, is run by a man named Thomas Falk.

Falk has previously donated to John Cornyn, the Republican Senator who once likened same-sex marriage to tying the knot with a box turtle, regularly assails a woman’s right to choose and in 2005 voted against increased funding for armored vehicles for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

From breastfeeding to going to the bathroom, the electoral system seems to find itself into our every nook and cranny. Especially the crannies.

  1. February 23, 2011 at 2:30 am, bbqbeau said:

    I don’t have a single product of the KOCKS in my home, not that that hurts their bottom line. But it makes me feel a lot better.

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  2. February 23, 2011 at 2:37 am, Anonymous said:

    I’m surprised they don’t manufacture teabags!

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  3. February 23, 2011 at 2:40 am, Mackenzie2148 said:

    Minor point—Georgia Pacific is not just a paper company. They are the second largest, fully integrated forest products company in the country just behind Weyerhaeuser. So, in addition to paper, you’ll have to rid yourself of any lumber, plywood, particleboard, or other wood products produced by GP. But I get the point, and will thoroughly clear my house of any GP paper product.

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    • March 02, 2011 at 11:42 am, Anna Yamada said:

      use cannabis indica instead of trees or rags as paper of choice and fabric of choice.

      hemp products–more eco-freindly and union-friendly than anything and everything georgia pacifica makes. also pressure pbs to stop taking koch money for their programming.

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    • March 02, 2011 at 11:42 am, Anna Yamada said:

      use cannabis indica instead of trees or rags as paper of choice and fabric of choice.

      hemp products–more eco-freindly and union-friendly than anything and everything georgia pacifica makes. also pressure pbs to stop taking koch money for their programming.

      Reply

  4. February 23, 2011 at 3:35 am, Dauner52 said:

    Koch – a name needing rescue ala Rockefeller. What is wrong with these assholes?

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  5. February 23, 2011 at 5:12 pm, Kathleen King said:

    From breastfeeding to going to the bathroom, the electoral system seems to find itself into our every nook and cranny. Especially the crannies.

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  6. February 28, 2011 at 11:51 pm, Bestmom16 said:

    Just what I needed to know….what products to boycott

    THANKS

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  7. March 02, 2011 at 11:39 am, Anna Yamada said:

    i’m going back to leaves in the woods.

    this list of boycotts should go viral with a list of union-friendly made-in-america eco=freindly products to buy in their place.

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  8. March 07, 2011 at 12:17 am, Gardenpeach said:

    Any idea what companies manufacture “house” brands for Trader Joe, safe way, etc?

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  9. May 03, 2012 at 2:13 pm, Stacey Gage said:

    …and that is jacked up, even generic prolly r made by 1 or the other….gotta do your homework peeps,

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  10. September 02, 2012 at 6:43 am, Mindy Rodriguez said:

    Before you continue to bad mouth the Kochs please tell me why Julia Louis Dreyfus only marched against the Keystone pipelines and never the Louis Dreyfus Group's pipelines?

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