Missouri’s Adam Smith Foundation raises eyebrows with $500K donation to stop tougher California pollution laws

The Adam Smith Foundation, a conservative, Jefferson City-based political nonprofit started by some of Matt Blunt’s pals in 2007, just wrote a $498,000 check to California political cause Yes On 23, which is trying to stop California’s tougher pollution regulations. Now a whole lot of people are asking questions of Adam Smith.

The mystery at the center of the uproar is why a political group that has never engaged in any action beyond the state border is suddenly sending oodles of cash out west.