Jane Mayer
Jane Mayer
Jane Meredith Mayer is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1995. In recent years, she has written for that publication on money in politics, government prosecution of whistleblowers, and the United States Predator drone program...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth24 November 1955
CountryUnited States of America
running house
In fact, Charles Koch tried to get [Mike] Pence to run for the White House in 2012.
thinking scary politician
I think the scary thing is that there is in place already a sprawling infrastructure of advocacy groups, think tanks, academics and candidates and politicians funded by the Kochs and other deep-pocketed groups on the far right ready to attack Hillary Clinton.
defeated possibility
The possibility exists that the Kochs will walk away with even more power if [Donalds] Trump's defeated.
hopeful problem solutions
It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.
people carpet familiar
People I've interviewed say they're terrified there may be boycotts of their [the Kochs] products, which include so many household items that everybody's familiar with, things like Stainmaster Carpet and Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels and Lycra.
running running-away businessman
It's hard for them to run away from their record. The Kochs are businessmen.
vision radical
It's quite amazingly radical, what their [the Kochs] vision of America would be.
party believe environmental
The Kochs have been activists since the 1970s. You can go back and look at the platform of the Libertarian Party in 1980 and see what they really believe in. They wanted to abolish huge swaths of the U.S. government, including the Internal Revenue Service. They want to get rid of Social Security. They'd like to get rid of Medicare. They'd like to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency, which directly affects their business.
moving democracy
The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.
dark thinking people
I kept thinking maybe in the future editions [of Dark Money] I should sell it along with, like, some kind of, you know, Pepto Bismol or something. I wanted it to read a little bit like a thriller, so that it truly grabbed people.
book dark secret
The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's whole thing is about government transparency, so he spends very much in the open, and the same with [Tom] Steyer.
thinking important
There's a difference between those two [George Soroses and the Tom Steyers] and the Kochs that I think is important.
action climate-change spending-money
[Tom] Steyer is specifically spending money on candidates who will take action against climate change.
military thinking abuse
The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.