More Evidence of Blunt Ally Harris' Work on Adam Smith Attack Campaign

Fired Up! Missouri reported months ago, shortly after its creation, that former Blunt appointment secretary James Harris is a key figure in the construction and operation of the Adam Smith Foundation --a group designed to attack individual judges and scrap the Missouri Non-partisan Court Plan in favor of costly elections.

Now via the internets comes even more proof of Harris's close involvement in running Matt Blunt's Adam Smith judge-bashing sideshow.

Not quite two weeks ago a fawning Wikipedia listing popped up for the Adam Smith Foundation, referring to the GOP-run front group as an "educational and advocacy organization committed to engaging Missourians
to become active citizens and support meaningful public policy reforms." 

­ The listing also made an indirect reference to Fired Up!, crafting a brief "Criticism" section which explains:

Several groups have come out to oppose the Adam Smith Foundation, including...liberal blogs.

Though the text of the Wikipedia entry was precisely the sort of stuff you'd find on the organization's website, Wikipedia provides other information that's much more interesting.  The Wikipedia site --which essentially allows anyone to author or edit an entry-- also tracks the history of changes made to any entry, along with the username of the individual who made them.  

The history of the Adam Smith Foundation entry indicates it was created and then amended the first twenty times by someone with the username 'Harrisjmn'.  James Harris' middle initials are reportedly 'm' and 'n'.  His SUV sports vanity license tags that read 'JMNH'.  It appears beyond dispute that James Harris is the one responsible for creating and updating the glowing Wikipedia entry.  And why not --since he's largely responsible for creating the organization to begin with.

The fact that Harris is spending several hours of an August evening building a Wikipedia page for the Adam Smith Foundation lends further credence to recent claims regarding his being paid by funders from national groups like Americans for Limited Government --which funded the malicious and false attacks on Judge Tom Brown last fall-- who are trying to make Missouri a mudpit again in 2008. 

Guys like Harris may come up with fancy new names for their front groups every cycle, but the game is always the same.