WNYLaborToday.com Editor’s Note: Your Regional, On-Line Labor Newspaper ran across this recently-published story on the Internet that featured Billionaire David Koch, one-half of the Koch Brothers who’ve been funding anti-Union Governor Scott Walker’s quest to eradicate Workers’ Rights and Collective Bargaining in the State of Wisconsin.  However, Organized Labor and Working People have pushed back and have successfully forced a Recall Election of Governor Walker in Wisconsin.  David Koch sat down with The Palm Beach Post in Florida and during a wide-ranging interview made it clear how important the Recall Election of Walker is and what it could mean if Organized Labor is successful.

In part, The Palm Beach Post story reads as such:

(PALM BEACH) — David Koch has become the face of Conservative America's obsession with weakening Organized Labor.

Asked about his efforts to sway public opinion, Koch acknowledges his group is hard at work in places such as Wisconsin, where Republican Governor Scott Walker is facing off with Public Unions and grappling with a likely recall vote.

"We're helping him, as we should. We've gotten pretty good at this over the years," he says. "We've spent a lot of money in Wisconsin. We're going to spend more."

By "we" he says he means Americans for Prosperity, which is spending about $700,000 on an "It's Working" television ad buy in the State of Wisconsin.  It credits Walker's Public Pension and Union Overhaul with giving School Districts the first surpluses they've seen in years.

The Unions and the left see things differently.

A year ago, a blogger (from Buffalo, New York) - posing as David Koch - famously prank-called Walker and goaded the Governor to say it would be "outstanding" if Koch would fly him to "Cali" as a reward for crushing the Public Unions.

The Koch Brothers' conglomerate, Koch Industries, holds regular political meetings in Rancho Mirage, California, and the events have attracted the likes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

At the time of the prank call, Koch told The New York Times he didn't even know the Wisconsin Governor's name.

He knows it now.

"What Scott Walker is doing with the Public Unions in Wisconsin is critically important.  He's an impressive guy and he's very courageous," Koch says after a benefit dinner of salmon and white wine. "If the Unions win the recall, there will be no stopping Union Power."

To read the entire Palm Beach Post story, go to:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/money/david-koch-intends-to-cure-cancer-in-his-2185046.html?page=2