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Excuse Me, but California Dems Stole How Much Again?
Excuse Me, but California Dems Stole How Much Again?
Allegations of California Democrats diverting Prop. 64 Cannabis Tax funds to political causes, not youth drug prevention.
"A million here, a million there, and pretty soon youāre talking real money," Sen. Everett Dirksen is supposed to have said more than 50 years ago, and if you do that 370 times, according to California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, you might have enough to cover the Golden State taxpayer dollars diverted into Democrat "voter machines.
The details get a little technical ā money laundering isn't supposed to be easy to follow, after all ā so I'll break down Hilton's allegations as quickly and cleanly as possible before we get to the big picture.
According to Hiltonās unofficial CAL DOGE, after California voters approved the Prop. 64 Cannabis Tax (I'll get back to what it's supposed to fund), here's what happened:
1. Californians voted to fund youth drug prevention through the Cannabis Tax. Instead, $370M in revenue is bankrolling leftwing activism.
2. The money flows through a single unelected nonprofit - The Center at Sierra Health Foundationās Elevate Youth program.
3. The Center has gotten rich off this arrangement - growing from $11.8M in 2018 to $197M in 2024. The CEO makes over $600K.
4. The Center runs Prop 64 dollars through to a web of NGOs, including the Jakara Movement, Young Invincibles, and Asian Refugees United - for activism, organizing, and voter registration.
5. This is not drug prevention - itās a taxpayer funded pipeline from the governorās office to leftwing political organizing.
Those are the "voter machines" referenced earlier. There's nothing wrong with voter registration and GOTV efforts, but using state funds to favor one party ā well, that's what happens in one-party blue strongholds like California.Here's the kicker, so to speak: The money was supposed to go toward solving youth substance abuse problems.
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Imagine if the Republican Congress outsourced federal gasoline tax collection to a private non-profit and let them skim a generous portion off the top, then send the rest to organizations friendly to the GOP. Because if CAL DOGE has it right, that's exactly what's happened to more than a third of a billion dollars in Cannabis Tax revenues.
"The state does not pick who gets the grants," CAL DOGE said. "The intermediary does, bypassing the rigorous procurement processes mandated for direct government contracts under the Department of General Services and State Controller oversight."
According to the California Fair Political Practices Commission's Behested Payment Transparency Report (pg.19-20), in 2020 alone, Sierra Health Foundation was the third-largest payor of behested payments statewide at $14,747,724 and the single largest payee of behested payments statewide at $30,869,901 ā payments Newsom solicited from private companies.
~Snip~Youth drug prevention? That appears to have been a scam from the get-go. "Rather than awarding grants to recipients that qualify for Proposition 64's original purpose," CAL DOGE said, they direct "Prop. 64's taxpayer dollars to fund leftwing activist organizations."
If the first step is admitting you have a problem, the second is acknowledging that the problem is Democrats.
Commentary:
American citizens continue to ask the same question; Why is no one ever held accountable? If you or I did any of this we would be locked up for ever.
Key findings include Misappropriation of Funds: CAL DOGE alleged that $370 million in Proposition 64 cannabis tax revenue was siphoned away from intended drug prevention programs.
āSlush Fundā Claims: The investigation claimed this money was channeled through the Center at Sierra Health Foundation to various non-profitsāsuch as the Jakara Movement, Young Invincibles, and Asian Refugees Unitedāfor voter registration and political organizing rather than healthcare.
Rapid Growth: The investigation highlighted that the Center at Sierra Health Foundationās revenue grew from $11.8 million in 2018 to $197 million in 2024, alleging they āgot richā off this arrangement.......in just seven days, they uncovered substantial fraud within California state programs.
Prop 64 is just one proposition. Try to imagine how many billions upon billions of dollars from other propositions' that have been passed over the years that are being "redirected" from the purpose from the stated intent of the propositions. As long as Democrats are in charge, there will never be an audit of the propositions.
California - home to "atmospheric rivers" of stolen tax dollars. Paradise for the Democrat fraud machine.
Meanwhile no one has been held responsible for the fires or lack of progress in rebuilding.
Newsom also has yet to answer for "The Train To Nowhere" boon toggle.