Prop 23's Mysterious Missouri Backer Calls Californians "Bunch of Crazy Folks"

The conservative Missouri-based Adam Smith Foundation has been getting a lot of ink lately for it's $498,000 donation to the Texas oil companies Prop 23 effort to kill California's clean energy and clean air standards. The Foundation, which had revenue of $109 last year, had been clamming up about who was behind its donations when reporters called during the past few months. Its directors hang up on the Sacramento Bee's reporters and did not return calls from others.

 

But the Foundation's director, James Harris, did some talking yesterday to a Missouri-based publication, the Riverfront Times. And here's what he had to say about the two-thirds of Californians who support our state's clean air and energy policies -- apparently we're "just a bunch of crazy folks" and "squabbling, whiny liberals out west." Really? Comments like that really ought to do wonders for Prop 23 -- as if 96 percent of its backing coming from oil companies (most of them out-of-state) wasn't enough.

Here are the Harris quotes in full from the paper:

"Democratic leadership in California has asked the attorney general to investigate the legality of the donation--all $498,000 of it--from the Missouri foundation, in a move the foundation's Harris characterizes as coming from  "just a bunch of crazy folks."

"This completely falls under the purview of what a (c)(4) can do," says Harris, who isn't concerned with the investigation: "I think it's just some squabbling, whiny liberals out west."

 

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