"tea party" in favor of prop 23
it's been a very long time since I felt as strongly about a proposition as I do about prop 23. I consider that if it passes it will be the final proof that California's initiative system, a source of pride for those of us who grew up in California, has somehow become hopelessly distored past recognition of anything resembling original intent.
anyhow I guess it should come as no surprise that this initiative, which was pretty much the brain child of two Texas-based oil refiners, has gained the support of the tea party, which is really some sort of weird front for Koch Industries. quoting from the San Jose Mercury News:
The Yes on 23 campaign is financed primarily by Valero Energy and Tesoro, two Texas-based oil refiners. The campaign also received a $1 million donation from Flint Hill Resources, a Kansas petrochemical company that is a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Brothers Charles and David Koch fund a complex web of tea party organizations, detailed in a recent article in The New Yorker magazine.
The tea party is an amorphous movement with many offshoots and splinter groups whose efforts nationally have had surprising success, but the scope of its support for Proposition 23 is hard to quantify.
However, Joe Wierzbicki, an executive at the Sacramento public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers who is also a coordinator with the group Tea Party Express, says that tea party activists in California have coalesced around Proposition 23 because they are not enthusiastic about the governor's race, and their preferred candidate for the U.S. Senate, Chuck DeVore, lost the Republican primary to Carly Fiorina.
anyhow. I don't particularly want to turn my LJ into a political ad, but I don't want to let out of state money ruin our economy and send the green tech jobs to China. vote NO on Prop 23... prop 23 is evil...
anyhow I guess it should come as no surprise that this initiative, which was pretty much the brain child of two Texas-based oil refiners, has gained the support of the tea party, which is really some sort of weird front for Koch Industries. quoting from the San Jose Mercury News:
The Yes on 23 campaign is financed primarily by Valero Energy and Tesoro, two Texas-based oil refiners. The campaign also received a $1 million donation from Flint Hill Resources, a Kansas petrochemical company that is a subsidiary of Koch Industries. Brothers Charles and David Koch fund a complex web of tea party organizations, detailed in a recent article in The New Yorker magazine.
The tea party is an amorphous movement with many offshoots and splinter groups whose efforts nationally have had surprising success, but the scope of its support for Proposition 23 is hard to quantify.
However, Joe Wierzbicki, an executive at the Sacramento public relations firm Russo Marsh & Rogers who is also a coordinator with the group Tea Party Express, says that tea party activists in California have coalesced around Proposition 23 because they are not enthusiastic about the governor's race, and their preferred candidate for the U.S. Senate, Chuck DeVore, lost the Republican primary to Carly Fiorina.
anyhow. I don't particularly want to turn my LJ into a political ad, but I don't want to let out of state money ruin our economy and send the green tech jobs to China. vote NO on Prop 23... prop 23 is evil...