those oaks. it is the cultural importance of those trees to auburn university and to alabama as a state that made so surreal this phone call to a local radio show last year. listen. the weekend after the iron bowl, i went to auburn, alabama because i live 30 miles away and poisoned the two toomer s tree, put spike 80 df in them. it did they die? they definitely will die. a man calling in saying he killed the toomer oaks with a tree poison, he did do it or somebody did it. ever since they learned of the poisoning, they are trying to save their beloved trees. we reported on their efforts, they removed the soil from around the roots and added activated liquid charcoal and coated the leaves in an effort
oaks. that s what an institution the trees are. it is the cultural importance of those trees to auburn university and alabama as a state that made so surreal this phone call to a local radio show last year. listen. the weekend after the iron bowl, i went to auburn, alabama, because i live 30 miles away and i poisoned the two toomer s trees. i put spike 80 df in them. did they die? they re not dead yet but they definitely will die. the man calling into a radio station saying he killed the toomer oaks with tree poison with an herbicide. and he did do it or somebody did it at least. it was not an idle boost. ever since they learned of the poisoning, auburn has been trying to save their beloved trees. we reported a year ago on efforts. they removed the soil from around the roots, added liquid charco charcoal, coated can the leaves of the trees with an
rolling through the center of town, one of which was equipped with two mounted 40 millimeter anti-aircraft guns. these tanks, it turns out, were not props and b, were the parade contribution from the local zil nar, a fellow named bill koch. he decided he wanted to roll the military tanks through downtown paonia, it s a free country, what are you going to do, right? one local resident not fond of this decision, what he decided to do was this, he staged his own personal tee enamen comes to paonia contest. he refused to move. the guy with a sign is a local resident named sid, former town councilman. buying the planet or just taking it? and the other, democracy bought and sold. eventually mr. lewis was escorted out of the way of the tanks by one of the men riding on top of the koch tank. but not before he made his point. not before the denver post caught wind of the wheel thing and christened the whole thing, tee anna men sid. his outsed local influence as the guy putting the c
local zillionaire bill koch. he decided he wanted to roll the military tanks through downtown as his contribution to the parade this year. it s a free country. what are you going to do, right? what one local resident who was, i guess, not fond of this decision, what he decided to do was this. he staged his own personal tiananmen comes to paonia protest, and he refused to move. the guy with the sign is a local resident named sid, sid lewis, he s a hairdresser, a former town councilman, his sign said on one side, buying the planned or just taking it? and on the other, democracy bought and sold. eventually, mr. lewis was physically escorted out of the way of the tanks by one of the men who was riding on top of the koch tank. but not before he made his point. and not before the denver post caught wind of the whole thing and christened the local hairdresser tiananmen sid for his act of free speech defiance. the whole democracy being bought and sold there may be a reference to bill
that s more than the entire john mccain campaign spent in 2008. it s not just them. in addition to them, karl rove has already announced his groups which appear to be mostly funded by rich conservative individuals, they plan to raise and spend somewhere in the neighborhood of $300 million in this year s elections. this doesn t count the romney campaign itself or the republican party. and that s all on top of the koch brothers money. how are the democrats attempting to match that kind of fire power? to understand that, it may be helpful to keep in mind this image of the hairdresser in sandals against the column of tanks with the guns. this weekend s new york times magazine has a long profile on what might be the democratic party s best hope for competing with this juggernaut of right wing money aimed at defeating president obama. it s the president s own super pac run by his former press secretary bill burton. look how they re getting outgunned so far. the pro obama super p