MONEY Plays. CORRUPTION Reigns, RULING OUT any semblance of substantive qualification or assurance of democratic participation, practice, or process

If democracy can be bought (which it most assuredly cannot be), what is manifest is fraudulence (deceit, dishonesty, duplicity), total absence of democracy.

US Elections, Contenders, Public Office Bought by Multimillionaires, Billionaires

2024 to date (or reported by August 2024)

Raised by candidates estimated at $1,240.5 million

Kamala HARRIS	Donald TRUMP
CANDIDATE COMMITTEE MONEY: $685,107,477	CANDIDATE COMMITTEE MONEY: $306,776,892
OUTSIDE MONEY: $278,146,052	OUTSIDE MONEY: $310,408,623

From Agribusiness

Donald Trump	$9,910,015
Kamala Harris	$2,734,984

2024 election cycle and based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on 08/21/24, https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/sector-totals

From Casinos/Gambling

Kamala Harris	$4,501,653
Donald Trump	$501,629

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/industry-totals?highlight=y&ind=N07

From Accountants

Kamala Harris	$1,560,264
Donald Trump	$1,001,011

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/industry-totals?highlight=n&ind=F11&src=a

From Small Donors (total raised)

Kamala Harris	$685,107,477
Donald Trump	$306,776,892

https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/small-donors

                            Big Buyers “largesse”

SOROS

Multi-billionaire (Approx 7 - $32 B) Native of Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary George Soros founder of Soros Fund Management LLC and Open Society Foundations currently chaired by his son Alexander Soros

From Soros (Soros Fund Management) to 14 and 8 Members of 

US House of Representatives:           $59,710

US Senate:                                         $52,500

2024 election cycle, figures released by the Federal Election Commission for the current election cycle based on data released on August 21, 2024. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/soros-fund-management/recipients?id=D000000306

MELLON

Multi-billionaire (approx $14.1B) Grandson and heir of American banking industrialist and businessman Andrew William (AW) Mellon two decades tenure as trustee of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Founder & Majority Owner of sold or defunct rail transport, manufacturing and energy, transportation related brand industries, uncertain birthplace, Timothy Mellon as of August 2024 (during the 2024 US election cycle) had reportedly handed out

… “$165 million” to politicians, candidates or their conduits

In the period January 2020 through June 2024” … “to federal candidates and political committees $227 million”

Open Secrets reports “Mellon has pumped over $165 million into the 2024 election, making him the top donor fueling outside spending groups this year. In July, Mellon made a $50 million cash infusion to pro-Trump super PAC ‘Make America Great Again, Inc’” (source new Federal Election Commission filings show). “This brings his total contributions to the group (‘Make America Great Again’) to $125 million this election cycle, including a $50 million check he wrote to the super PAC the day after Trump was convicted of 34 felonies.

“Mellon’s latest $50 million contribution accounts for over 90 percent of what MAGA, Inc. raised in July. The super PAC ended the month with about $124.5 million cash on hand.”

Before suspending his campaign for the US presidency, the junior Robert F. Kennedy’s “hybrid PAC ‘American Values 2024’ (had) received $25 million from Mellon. Compared to the 2016 election period, as July 2024, “Timothy Mellon (had) increased his spending more than 5,000-fold.”

 

Top all time recipients of Timothy Mellon's political donations 

Table with 2 columns and 10 rows.
Recipient	Grand Total
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN INC	$126,500,000 $126,500,000 $126,500,000
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP FUND	$55,000,000 $55,000,000 $55,000,000
AMERICAN VALUES 2024	$25,003,300 $25,003,300 $25,003,300
SENATE LEADERSHIP FUND	$20,000,000 $20,000,000 $20,000,000
AMERICA FIRST ACTION	$20,000,000 $20,000,000 $20,000,000
SENTINEL ACTION FUND	$11,000,000 $11,000,000 $11,000,000
WISCONSIN TRUTH PAC	$5,000,000 $5,000,000 $5,000,000
AMERICAN POLICY FUND	$4,000,000 $4,000,000 $4,000,000
CONNECTICUT PATRIOTS PAC	$2,500,000 $2,500,000 $2,500,000
EVERGREEN PRINCIPLES PAC	$2,200,000 $2,200,000 $2,200,000

Billionaire Timothy Mellon has poured $165 million into 2024 elections by Maia Cook, August 23, 2024 https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/heir-to-andrew-mellons-fortune-spends-over-165-million-to-support-trumps-reelection
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Mellon
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/06/21/who-is-timothy-mellon-trumps-biggest-donor-is-a-secretive-billionaire-banking-scion-who-paid-53-million-for-border-wall/
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-articles/a-wyoming-billionaire-with-roots-to-one-of-americas-richest-old-money-fortunes-has-provided-98-of-the-funds-to-build-texas-border-wall/

ADELSON

SUPER Multinational Multi-Billionaire (estimate $40 B) Founder, Chair and CEO of Casino / Resort Las Vegas Sands and related resorts under various names stretching from Nevada USA to a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China; Ukrainian roots via Boston, Sheldon Gary Adelson had “donated More Money to Politicians Than Anyone Else…” In the 2020 election cycle alone, Sheldon and Miriam (husband and wife) Adelson shelled out to US politicians or candidates: “$173 million,” more than doubling the next highest buyer who came in at “$59 million.”

During the 2020 election cycle, “the Adelsons donated $172.5 million to Trump PACs and Republican causes.” Article by Amy Lamare posted December 9, 2020,   https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/sheldon-adelson-has-donated-more-money-to-politicians-than-anyone-else-by-a-mile/

Celebrity Net Worth reported in 2020 that the Adelsons, during the 2012, 2016, and 2018 cycles, handed out “$93 million,” “$82.58 million,” and “$123.25 million,” respectively, to US politicians and political candidates.
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/richest-billionaires/sheldon-adelson-net-worth/; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson

THE TRUMPS (Net Worth Estimates)

• Billionaire real estate developer, businessman, television personality, 45th US President previously affiliated with at least three political parties and no prior experience in national or military service or public office before 2016 Donald John Trump: $3 Billion (Salary $400,000)

• Ivanka Trump: $800 Million
• Donald Trump Jr : $350 Million
• Eric Trump: $350 Million
• Jared Kushner (Trump in-law): $800 Million

Last Updated: September 3, 2024
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/richest-billionaires/donald-trump-net-worth/
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/ivanka-trump-net-worth/
Last Updated: August 15, 2024
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/business-executives/donald-trump-jr-net-worth/
Last Updated: June 27, 2024
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/business-executives/eric-trump-net-worth/
Last Updated: August 26, 2024
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-businessmen/jared-kushner-net-worth/

Harris:

Presumed Democratic Party Candidate for US Presidency

Multimillionaire (approx 8M, salary $218,000) American lawyer, City and State of California and US public official, current US Vice President, Oakland, California, native Kamala Devi Harris

During 2024 Election Cycle
Funds Received from Industries and other Entities

Future Forward USA	$46,342,900
Bloomberg LP	$19,086,997
American Bridge 21st Century	$14,229,315
Greylock Partners	$10,022,600
Euclidean Capital	$9,106,600
Sequoia Capital	$7,806,625
Democracy PAC	$7,650,000
Newsweb Corp	$7,010,485
Dragoneer Investment Group	$5,013,200
Federated Indians Of Graton Rancheria	$4,108,844
Alphabet Inc	$3,857,495
Arista Networks	$2,905,485
Democracy Matters	$2,800,000
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers	$2,343,344
Laborers Union	$2,120,745
Microsoft Corp	$1,882,602
University of California	$1,732,637
American Federation of State/Cnty/Munic Employees	$1,346,782
National Education Assn	$1,344,604
Priorities USA	$1,320,356

2024 election cycle, based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on 08/21/24 OpenSecrets: info@opensecrets.org,
https://www.opensecrets.org/2024-presidential-race/kamala-harris/contributors?id=N00036915
Celebrity net Worth last updated: July 31, 2024, https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democrats/kamala-harris-net-worth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris

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Can Americans do no better than this?

Does Anyone Trust the Fitness of the Crop Set Before Us?

Oklahoma born / California bred Performer and Racialist Cornel Ronald West

Does anyone believe that this man’s entry into the race for the U.S. presidency is reason for glee? He was featured a while back in Entertainment Weekly and other puff entities including NPR for his gig work: “Hip-Hop 101 with Cornel West” by Simon Vozick-Levinson August 2007.

Questions about the quality of Cornel West’s character and work product were reportedly raised in 2000 in a “rebuke” received from the President of Harvard who pointed to the hip hop artist's—

“Missing too many classes, contributing to grade inflation, neglecting serious scholarship, and spending too much time on his financially profitable projects.”

Not producing scholarship “befitting his professorial position.” 

A hip-hop performer (I don’t know of a “musical,” more like “talking,” genre that I abhor more than rap or hip hop) on the level of other dangerous performers (e.g., comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy) pretending preparedness for what he is (they are) clearly unprepared and thus destined to cause great harm to one nation and to many nations.

Cornel West has been given Ivy League positions; but, in my view, he is blatantly unprepared (in temperament and experiential qualification) for the U.S. Presidency. He is unfit for purpose, unfit to serve this nation. 

The people of the United States have for too long made the fatal mistake of essentially certifying (or acquiescing to a flawed system’s choice of) any man (or woman) of a certain age and native birth as qualified to hold the office of U.S. Presidency or to contend or conduct a campaign for that office.

In recent memory, there have been numerous disasters which have harmed other nations and peoples and have harmed the United States by simultaneously neglecting America’s domestic needs. These disasters can be traced to mental, moral, psychological, intellectual, experiential (or all of these) incompetence, defect, unfitness, or unpreparedness of candidates or of those who climbed into the main chair in the oval office.

Some of them had prior executive public office experience (e.g., Reagan, Blythe, and Bush II). Some did not. Here is a crop of unfit contemporary characters (1981-present).

• B-movie actor Ronald Wilson REAGAN known for questionable debate materials tampering, Iran Contra crimes.

• William Jefferson Blythe III (aka Bill CLINTON) and wife Hillary Rodham: known for crimes against Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, sexual harassment, rip off of Haiti crimes and scandals.

• George W. BUSH: malleable character known for reckless and reactionary arm-chair commanding of maliciously criminal wars of terror.

• Barack Hussein OBAMA Jr.: malleable character known for arm-chair commanding of mass killings across West Asia and Africa, including the assassination of Libya’s beloved president, continuing (armchair commanded) terror wars against Muslim and Arab countries in Western Asia and other places.

• Television performer Donald John TRUMP: malleable character known for all-round ineptitude plus sexual harassment scandals, unjustifiable, criminal (armchair commanded) assassination of Iran’s beloved military officer copying years long U.S. administrations’ attacks on Iran’s government, its leaders and scientists; continuing (armchair commanded) terror wars against Muslim and Arab countries in Western Asia and other places.

• Joseph Robinette BIDEN Jr.: known for on-the-job senility, sexual harassment and other misbehavior, scandals and alleged crimes, continuing (armchair commanded) terror wars against Muslim and Arab countries in Western Asia and other places.

This is the crop. 

This is the crop that, in a coast to coast rigged electoral system, Americans delude themselves into believing they freely choose to lead the nation.

I agree that Kamala Harris is unprepared for the U.S. presidency or its candidacy. It is also my view that other contenders together with Donald Trump, Cornel West and Joseph Biden are unfit for the U.S. presidency.

To my knowledge, based on cursory research, and for the reasons mentioned above regarding the 1981 - 2023 (Nos. 40th-46th) U.S. presidents, the following individuals are also unfit for the position.

Robert Kennedy Jr.,	Marianne Williamson	Larry Elder	Nikki Haley
Will Hurd	Asa Hutchinson	Mike Pence	Vivek Ramaswamy
Tim Scott	Corey Stapleton	Francis Suarez

 

Does anyone believe this crop of Contenders?

Are Americans willing to toe the line?

Hold their nose?

Do as they’re told?

Are Americans again willing to shrug and pretend that the game was not decided long before they were born? Long before sinister powers forced the citizenry to act as if they’re in control while doing as they are told—settling for the same old crop: the bought and bossed puppets, and their masters who own the table and so the game?



Sources

https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2024#Notable_declared_candidates
https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_candidates,_2024#Notable_declared_candidates

Entertainment Weekly “Hip-Hop 101 with Cornel West,” by Simon Vozick-Levinson
August 10, 2007 https://ew.com/article/2007/08/10/hip-hop-101-cornel-west/

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Homelessness amidst flair, glittering wealth

Big State, Big Bucks, Big Neglect

P

oor amidst “Richest”

RT documentary now playing “USA: Being poor in the world’s richest country” June 15, 2020: 

• “43 million people in the US now live below the poverty line, twice as many as 50 years ago.
• Three times more than during the 1930s Great Depression
• “1.5 million children” in the United States are homeless
• “Entire families are tossed from one place to another to work unstable jobs that barely allow them to survive.
• “In the historically poor Appalachian mining region, people rely on food stamps.
• “In Los Angeles, the number of homeless people has increased dramatically.
• “In the poorest neighborhoods, associations offer small wooden huts to those who no longer have a roof over their heads.”

Focus on California

M

oneyed California Governors, Senators, Members of Congress amidst homelessness

Key California politicians, estimated Net worth

Governors

• Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. (former California governor) $10 million https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democrats/jerry-brown-net-worth/

• Gavin Newsom (California Governor): $10-20 million https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democrats/gavin-newsom-net-worth/

US House and Senate

• Dianne Feinstein (US Senator 1991-present): ): $80 million https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democrats/dianne-feinstein-net-worth/

• Kamala Devi Harris (US Senator 2016- present) $4 million https://moneyinc.com/kamala-harris-net-worth/

• Darrell Issa (Member of US Congress January 3, 2001-January 3, 2019) $357 million https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/how-much-does/the-10-richest-members-of-congress-and-how-they-earned-their-fortunes/

• Barbara Lee (Member of US Congress 1997-present) $240,507 (2015) https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/net-worth?cid=N00008046&year=2015

• Nancy Pelosi (Member of US Congress 1987- present) $120 million (ranging $43 million to $202 million) https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-politicians/democrats/nancy-pelosi-net-worth/

• Scott Peters (Member of US Congress January 3, 2013-present) $45 million https://www.latimes.com/projects/how-much-are-they-worth/scott-peters/

• David G. Valadao (Member of US Congress 2013-2019) $3.7 million-$17.5 million  https://www.latimes.com/projects/how-much-are-they-worth/david-valadao/

• Maxine Waters (Member of US Congress 1991-present) $90,000 minimum https://www.latimes.com/projects/how-much-are-they-worth/maxine-waters/

The cofounder of a conservative and libertarian think tank, California Policy Center, commented in April of this year on the circular nature, and therefore the failure to solve the problem of homelessness.  This is some of what Edward Ring wrote.

California policies, touted as helping homeless people find shelter, “have little to do with helping the ‘unhoused’” [contemporary pseudonym for the homeless] find permanent housing. If these policies were indeed designed or intended to help the homeless find permanent housing (not refugee camps on streets or anywhere else), “the problem [of homelessness] would have been solved years ago, Ring wrote.

There is a “hidden agenda” that effectively perpetuates the problem states, individuals and organizations claim to end. Ring points to “a Homeless Industrial Complex [that] has arisen in California that acquires power and profit by pursuing an utterly dysfunctional strategy.”

Observing conditions in Los Angeles, he says policy makers and their partners feed an insatiable giant with tax dollars. For example, “instead of rounding up homeless people, sorting them according to their various challenges – drug addiction, alcoholism, criminality, mental illness, laziness, or just bad luck – and moving them into supervised camps in low cost areas of Los Angeles County, the Homeless Industrial Complex enriches itself promoting the problem, advertising that there is a problem, contracting out a show or progress; but never actually solving the problem.

Citing the Los Angeles example, he notes that wasting more than $8 million on the building of a 154-bed shelter cannot possibly succeed in housing the existing “tens of thousands of homeless people.” Providing no more than “140 apartments” at a cost of more than $200 million will not secure “permanent supportive housing” for the thousands of people languishing in temporary shelters.

“Locating supportive housing and shelters in inexpensive areas would solve the problem” but constructing “solutions” on high value land returns greater income for the industrial complex. Public bureaucracies get funding to expand. “Nonprofit” corporations and their for-profit subcontractors get public funding and tax incentives. The longer the game is drawn out, the more income is accrued by the Homeless Industrial Complex. 

Failure to Solve Homelessness

N

ews Accounts

September 9, 2019, Judith Prieve, East Bay Times https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/09/09/why-after-19-years-city-says-rv-dwellers-need-to-move-off-private-site-thats-welcomed-them/

• “Antioch RV dwellers’ future uncertain at private site they’re on: City to check on possible zoning change that may let them stay”

February 6, 2020, Aly Brown, The Press https://www.thepress.net/news/city-of-antioch-submits-application-for-gov-gavin-newsoms-homeless-trailer-program/article_4565fedc-490d-11ea-a157-0fb0360b8671.html

• “City of Antioch submits application for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s homeless trailer program: Officials and advocates say they will be used for transitional housing”A day before the deadline, officials met to approve an application requesting “three to five of Newsom’s 100 trailers intended to house homeless residents throughout the state.

“If Antioch qualifies, it will be able to house three to five individuals per trailer. City council documents originally indicated 10 people would live in a trailer — a figure that was later corrected during the council meeting.”

March 23, 2020 East County Today https://eastcountytoday.net/antioch-city-council-set-to-discuss-future-of-homeless-encampment-ad-hoc-committee/

• “Antioch City Council Set to Discuss Future of Homeless Encampment Ad-hoc Committee”

April 20, 2020 The Press https://www.thepress.net/news/contra-costa-county-delivers-sanitation-stations-to-slow-covid-19-in-homeless-camps/article_35ed138e-8371-11ea-9044-5339e55c9483.html

• “Contra Costa County delivers sanitation stations to slow COVID-19 in homeless camps”

April 26, 2020 East County Today https://eastcountytoday.net/antioch-firefighters-battle-homeless-encampment-fire-along-highway-4-v2/

• “Antioch: Firefighters Battle Homeless Encampment Fire Along Highway 4”

May 5, 2020 The Press https://www.thepress.net/news/contra-costa-county-shelters-250-homeless-individuals-in-hotels-during-shelter-in-place/article_1a4875c6-8f0e-11ea-9e51-b36210934838.html

• “Contra Costa Health, Housing & Homeless Services (H3) recently announced it has sheltered 250 individuals experiencing homelessness in hotels and motels through Project Roomkey.”

May 29, 2020 San Diego Union Tribune https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/california/story/2020-05-29/arrest-made-after-california-homeless-fed-poisoned-food

• “Arrest made after California homeless fed poisoned food”

• “One person was arrested after eight homeless people were given poisoned food that sent several to the hospital   [Source Southern California authorities]

 Antioch is a California city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area along the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta. It is the second largest city in Contra Costa County; its population, according to the 2010 census 102,372.

In 2016 the East Contra Costa County experienced “a 32.5 percent increase” in homelessness.  Just over half of these were in Antioch. The number of East Contra Costa County residents sleeping in cars, homeless encampments and empty buildings had risen by one-third and there was reportedly “little help available in the region.”

East County had but a “few shelters,” Antioch’s shelter had only “20 beds” and these were “available only to the mentally ill.” Brentwood and Bay Point, also in Contra Costa County, each had one shelter “limited to women and children.”

May 26, 2016 Rowena Coetsee Mercury News https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/05/26/east-contra-costa-countys-homeless-population-increases-by-double-digits/

“East Contra Costa County’s homeless population increases by double digits

May 20, 27, 2019 Annie Sciacca East Bay Times https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/05/20/we-just-havent-kept-with-the-pace-of-housing-needs-homelessness-in-contra-costa-on-the-rise/Big State s homelessness amidst flare and wealth

• “New data: Contra Costa’s homeless population up 43 percent: ‘We just haven’t kept with the pace of housing needs,’ county services director says”

• Despite the nation’s robust economy and low unemployment rate, Contra Costa County’s homeless population rose a startling 43 percent from two years ago”

• Also in the biennial report figures were Alameda County’s 8,022 homeless people, up 43 percent; and Santa Clara County’s 9,706 homeless people, up 31 percent from 2017.

E

ntrenched in California’s State Mansion

Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. - Estimated net worth $10 million

Secretary of State of California January 4, 1971 – January 6, 1975

34th Governor of California January 6, 1975 – January 3, 1983

47th Mayor of Oakland January 4, 1999 – January 8, 2007

Attorney General of California January 9, 2007 – January 3, 2011

39th Governor of California January 3, 2011 – January 7, 2019    

Gavin Christopher Newsom - Estimated net worth $20 million

San Francisco Board of Supervisors Member (2nd district) January 8, 1997 – January 8, 2004

42nd Mayor of San Francisco January 8, 2004 – January 10, 2011

49th Lieutenant Governor of California January 10, 2011 – January 7, 2019

40th Governor of California January 7, 2019 -

Sources

RT doc “USA: Being poor in the world’s richest country” June 15, 2020 https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/491765-being-poor-richest-country/

Time of broadcast available on RT’s schedule page

https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/491765-being-poor-richest-country/

LA Times “California’s members of Congress are worth at least $439 million” Iris Lee, Christina Bellantoni. March 5, 2018 “The total net worth of California’s delegation was at least $439 million in 2016”https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-richest-california-lawmakers-20180305-story.html

Also

“Two freshmen made the millionaires list: Reps. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) and Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana).

Ro Khanna: minimum $27 million https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-richest-california-lawmakers-20180305-story.html

Lou Correa’s (2019-2020): $1-5 million https://celebstrendnow.com/lou-correa-net-worth/

Lou Correa estimated net worth 2016-2018: 6 million

https://www.rollcall.com/wealth-of-congress/

https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/net-worth/Lou-Correa?cid=N00037260&year=2015

https://www.latimes.com/projects/how-much-are-they-worth/scott-peters/

https://www.latimes.com/projects/how-much-are-they-worth/nancy-pelosi/

California Globe “How the Homeless Industrial Complex Plans to Destroy Venice Beach: The City of Los Angeles intends to use bailout funds to buy distressed properties and use them to house the unhoused” Edward Ring, April 22, 2020 https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/how-the-homeless-industrial-complex-plans-to-destroy-venice-beach/

Edward Ring is cofounder of  the California Policy Center (CPC, formed 2010), a 501c(3) nonprofit think tank associated with the State Policy Network (1992 Arlington, Virginia HQ), an umbrella nonprofit organization of conservative and libertarian think tanks acting as a public policy clearinghouse and advisory on fundraising, operating nonprofits, and communicating ideas. The CPC advocates for school choice and the right not to join s union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Policy_Center

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