The man who's now called "the Tea Party's wallet" almost helped Jimmy Carter win a second term.
Toward the end of what seems to be (but maybe isn't!) a secretly recorded phone conversation with a blogger pretending to be David Koch, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker talks of gathering his Cabinet several weeks ago, pulling out a picture of Ronald Reagan, and likening the push to deny public sector workers collective bargaining rights to the Gipper's 1981 decision to fire striking air traffic controllers.
How David Koch tried to derail the Reagan revolution - War Room - Salon.com