Texas Oil Firms are the New Meddlin' Mormons

Remember how an out-of-state non-profit entity (one with some California members, to be sure, but still) bankrolled a political movement against gay marriage in California? Well now the great corporations of Texas are going to try to bankroll a state proposition to repeal a California state law. The oil companies’ talking points are that curbing emissions and the like reduce the number of jobs, and make it hard to do business, and so their outfit is called the California Jobs Initiative. Are you against jobs? Are you against people earning money? Fortunately, the people who oppose the Texas oil firms are calling themselves Californians for Clean Energy & Jobs. So they are also for jobs. And, also, from California. If I weren’t a proud American I’d be against our system of deciding things by way of cash and lobbyists.