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The NO on Prop 23 campaign was flowing with millions of dollars from extortionists, enviro wackos, and a whole host of new age and more traditional robber barons. There is a long list of venture capitalists and hedge fund managers pushing green energy, to cash in on their early investments. That category would include Arnie's buddy RFKjr (VantagePoint) who is pushing his massive solar farm (on federal land, courtesy of you the taxpayer.) It would also include John Doerr and his wife who gave a couple of million. (He's the one from Kleiner Perkins who co-authored with Carly an editorial pushing the Proposition to bypass Prop 13 in voting for school bonds. See here. He can usually be found contributing big bucks to propositions that will cause dollars to flow into his bank account). Even Julian Robertson got in on the action. Gee, I wonder where he has his Tiger $ invested!

Whether wind or solar or algae, just about every "investor" seems to think that putting oil companies out of business and forcing citizens to pay 10X times more for energy is a good idea.

You will also find some supposed do-gooders giving money to No on Prop 23, like the Sierra club, the Google founders, Julia Packard. Even the bankrupt Tesla Motors was doling out money to the NO on 23 campaign.

Then, of course, you've got the extortionist groups like the NRDC, the Tides Foundation, the Environmental Defense Fund (who also benefitted from $300K from Meg), and others.

And then, you had the head cheerleader: Arnold Schwarzenegger. You know, the guy that was going to save the California Republican Party with his wizardry and brilliance in commerce. He couldn't help himself from railing about the evil Texas Oil Companies and the greedy rich people that wanted to pollute the air.

How can you resent Bill Gates wanting to be a part of that cocktail party?