Tornado Alley (PROG)

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the first link in the second-last paragraph (right before the 'Update' paragraph) of "Spontaneous Uprising? Corporate Lobbyists Helping To Orchestrate Radical Anti-Obama Tea Party Protests" for some reason won't show up correctly in the post (even though it comes through just fine on the screen to post a reply to that post) -- to access the source linked by that link, go to the original of that article at http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/09/lobbyists-planning-teaparties/ and click through from there

cleaned up minus that link, that paragraph reads:

Americans for Prosperity is run by Tim Phillips, who was Ralph Reed’s former partner in the lobbying firm Century Strategies. The group is funded by Koch family foundations [ http://mediatransparency.org/recipientgrants.php?recipientID=8806 ] — a family whose wealth is derived from the oil industry. Indeed Americans for Prosperity has coordinated pro-drilling ‘grassroots [ http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2008/10/14/afp-astroturf/ ]‘ events around the country.