Tea party activists across the state are rallying in support of Proposition 23, a measure on the Nov. 2 ballot that would suspend California's landmark global warming legislation, known as AB 32. ...
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.
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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 Advertisement Republican primary to Carly Fiorina.
"There's energetic backing for Prop. 23 among the tea party networks in the state," said Wierzbicki. "With polls showing a dead heat for Prop. 23, I think you'll see the difference being made up by the intensity and passion among the electorate. Right now the passion is with Prop. 23 supporters. That bodes well for the measure."
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