New Mexico’s Tea Party Governor Appoints Energy Dept Head Who Thinks Environmentalists Are Commies

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez has selected former Senator Harrison Schmitt to head the state’s Energy Minerals and Natural Resources Department. Schmitt told radio host Alex Jones in 2009 that the environmental leaders are mostly communists, and that when they get appointed to government positions, citizens need to “wake up” and “take control of their government again.” (via Think Progress)

I think that there are individuals, [Obama science czar John] Holdren apparently among them, a very large number who have taken — shall we say captured the environmental movement and turned it into what was previously considered the communist movement.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.