MSNBC Panel: In Helping Candidate They Support, Koch Brothers Paying ‘Bribe’ in ‘Quid Pro Quo’

‘This is a quid pro quo in the cleanest or dirtiest sense of the word’

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REID: "Having the candidate of their choosing would then be the president that they own or lease. And the thing is with Scott walker, one of the reasons I think he's so attractive to the Koch brothers, they've been very much involved in crafting the kind of Wisconsin they want, the kind of legislation they want. And Scott walker, a guy who's basically a moderate, when he got in, he did pretty much what the Koch brothers said. Not only them, but you also have the Bradley foundation also in Wisconsin that could spend $300 million that are also very much Walker people. Because they want something very specific. They want deregulation for their extracted industries. They want very low taxes. They want the end of the estate tax. This is a quid pro quo in the cleanest or dirtiest sense of the word." 
WAGNER: "I just cannot believe we are at a point, Blake, where it has become acceptable to publicly talk about the fact that we're going to kick the tires, and then we'll decide -- I mean, this is not what a democracy looks like. And yet the conversation about money in politics has gone the way of the dodo bird." 
ZEFF: "They're being explicit about what the bribe is. Like what the agenda is. They want to play lower taxes. It's not some philosophical thing. They're not going to give it to Scott walker so easily right away, right? They want to extract promises. They're not stupid." 
WAGNER: "But that is insane!"

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