I mentioned the other day a carping call from a Koch Industries spokeswoman about my reference to the billionaire Koch family’s involvement in organizations fighting progress on every front, including health care. She promised some followup data to prover their lack of involvement. It never turned up.

Now she can turn her attention to Think Progress, which has produced a more comprehensive roundup of the “billionaires behind the hate.” The Kochs many investments include Georgia-Pacific, which has a significant footprint in Arkansas.

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PS — I should have said the real source of the Koch unhappiness with this blog was a linkage of the Kochs with groups supporting ads blasting Blanche Lincoln. The Kochs love Blanche Lincoln for her support of repeal of the estate tax and want to be seen as her friend on that limited issue, worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the family.

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