Re: Newsom ♥️ Billionaires (fwd)

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Unsurprising.

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:50:10 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 >  > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:28:14 +0000
 >  > From: Lever Daily <http://www.levernews.com/~editor>
 >  > 
 >  > Written by Veronica Riccobene. Edited by Emily Carmichael and Joel Warner.
 >  > 
 >  > Unlikely bedfellows. Ca Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is scrambling to kill 
 >  > a billionaire tax proposal, reportedly promising [
 >  > https://www.levernews.com/r/b58fbbac?m=c7c41f62-6bc5-4c98-ae9b-16d6eceafe07] 
 >  > a major Democratic donor during a call last month that he would negotiate 
 >  > away the proposed ballot measure before June 25, the deadline for signature 
 >  > collection. The one-time 5 percent tax — introduced by SEIU-UHW, a state 
 >  > healthcare workers union — would be levied on roughly 200 Ca 
 >  > residents with at least $1 billion in net worth. If passed, the tax is 
 >  > expected to raise $100 billion to help backfill Medicaid funding cut by the 
 >  > federal government, as well as other state social programs.  
 >  > 
 >  > 💰 Newsom has the predictable support of anti-tax billionaires like Google�>  > ��s Sergey Brin and Palantir’s Peter Thiel. Democratic-aligned 
 >  > organizations are also opposing the tax, including Ca’s Planned 
 >  > Parenthood branch and the state’s largest teachers’ union.
 >  > 
 >  > 👀 This anti-tax coalition has reportedly taken “extraordinary lengths 
 >  > to isolate [
 >  > https://www.levernews.com/r/a9601538?m=c7c41f62-6bc5-4c98-ae9b-16d6eceafe07]�;>  > �� SEIU-UHW President Dave Regan and deliver this message: Revoke the 
 >  > measure now, before it reaches the ballot, or risk being destroyed in a 
 >  > spending showdown. 
 >  > 
 >  > 💬 “Dave Regan is seeing very plainly what he’ll be up against if he 
 >  > goes through with this,” one anonymous consultant working to defeat the 
 >  > billionaire tax told Politico [
 >  > https://www.levernews.com/r/cd62c8cc?m=c7c41f62-6bc5-4c98-ae9b-16d6eceafe07]