Billionaires Already Own the Courts. Now They’re Coming for Your Ballot.

“Californians’ compassion should support the strongest science—not be used to turn a billionaire’s preferred project into our financial obligation.”—Daryl V. Rowland

Daryl V. Rowland examines five California ballot measures through the influence of concentrated wealth, including Proposition 38’s custom-written arrangement directing half of an $8.4 billion bond toward an institute co-founded and chaired by its billionaire sponsor.