🚨 NEW FROM CAL DOGE: Our first Fraud Report. $370 million in Cannabis Tax money that was supposed to be used for "substance abuse prevention" siphoned off into a Democrat voter registration slush fund.
DETAILS:
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 Foundation’s 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 - it’s a taxpayer funded pipeline from the governor’s office to leftwing political organizing.
Read the full report from CAL DOGE - link below in next post 👇
The median home price in California is $909,400. California has the highest housing costs in America by far. It’s the #1 reason people are leaving the state. And it’s the direct result of Democrat policies.
What happened? I spent two years digging into it for CALIFAILURE:
The cost to build homes starts with the so-called "Impact Fees," supposedly to help municipalities pay for new infrastructure needed to accommodate development.
But these fees are often set at $150,000
or even $200,000 per new home. These inflated fees are because municipalities are using them to try to balance their budgets and recoup accumulated deficits incurred years ago. Developers of new housing have to pass these costs on to home buyers.
Along with excessive costs for permits and fees, California's cities have the slowest building permit approval times in the U.S.
In San Francisco it takes over 600 days to issue a building permit. In San Jose, a standard plan check
and approval takes 40 weeks “if all goes well.” In San Diego, turnaround time is between six months to one year. In Oakland, development planning projects take 12-36 months.
These prolonged periods in limbo, where investor funds are stranded even though the construction loans continue to incur interest charges, add greatly to the underlying cost of homes.
Democrats are deliberately crushing our farmers, and putting our firefighters at risk, by creating a fake water shortage.
It’s driven by ‘Climatism’, one of the 9 ideological pathologies I studied for my new book. The water story is even worse than you might think:
The mismanagement of California's water system has been in the news - with the L.A. wildfires, and President Trump's focus on water flows from northern to southern California.
But the full story is even worse than you might think. I spent the last two years digging into all this for my new book, Califailure, and this is what I found:
California Democrat politicians and their appointed bureaucrats think they've figured out the answer to the state's water shortages: Rationing! Their plan is to restrict indoor water consumption and take millions of acres of fertile farmland - the best in the world! - out of production.
This 'solution' carries with it an economic cost that will run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, in the form of less agricultural output, and indeed less development of any kind, since new housing and most types of businesses require a water supply. But the problem itself is created by bad policy. There is no natural water shortage in California. It's man-made:
The despicable cynicism, dishonesty and cruelty of the Lockdown Lunatics has been brutally exposed by @IsabelOakeshott in the UK. We need the US version!
UK government's "glib resort to casual authoritarianism is shocking even for those who are cynical about politicians" @WSJ 🧵
"They were “following the science,” politicians told the public at every opportunity...The public in many countries has learned that was often far from true, and now we have proof from what our British friends are calling the Covid lockdown files...
"From the start, Britain’s Covid policies became a question of politics rather than science. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, a leading lockdown hawk, mused in January 2020...that an outbreak could be good for his political career...
Democrat gaslighting over gas stove ban expertly dissected👇
Fake science, 'climate' cronyism and corruption - it's all here. They really DO want to ban your gas stove and @KimStrassel has the receipts:
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"Extremely powerful climate groups, working with Biden administration officials, have "publicly stated their aim to eliminate all “combustion appliances” in homes.
1. "The Climate Imperative Foundation...whose climate action plan calls for getting rid of gas cooking. CIF’s executive director, Bruce Nilles, has made the end of gas stoves an imperative, writing in 2019: “Your gas stove has to go.”
"There were no red flags", said @npr about the Half Moon Bay murderer. Really?
"in court documents filed for a temporary restraining order...a roommate accused Mr. Zhao of threatening to split his head open with a knife and trying to suffocate him after a workplace dispute...
"In his application for the order, which a Santa Clara County judge granted, Jingjiu Wang wrote that Mr. Zhao had crept into his room at their shared San Jose apartment in March 2013 and demanded his paycheck...
"When Mr. Wang was unable to produce it, he said, “Mr. Zhao said to me, today I am going to kill you,” and then attacked him, trying to smother him with a pillow...
"An ominous warning for California economy" - @CalMatters
1. "Just nine companies headquartered in the Golden State went public in the first three quarters of 2022, compared to 81 during the same period last year." 👇
2. "As of Sept. 30, initial public offerings in California had raised just $177 million, compared to an average of $16 billion during the same period over the past five years."
3. "The $177 million figure represents just 2% of funds generated by U.S. companies that went public through the end of September. Last year at this time, California accounted for 39% of funds nationally."