- cross-posted to:
- california@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- california@lemmy.world
Removed/flagged from Hacker News/ Y Combinator news.
Tan, the CEO of the vaunted startup incubator Y Combinator, announced Wednesday he had spun up a dark-money group called “Garry’s List” that he described as a “voter education group” that is “dedicated to civic engagement, voter education and support for common-sense policies and candidates” in a press release. Such groups give donors a way to anonymously support causes without giving directly to a candidate or a measure.
Another one? Isn’t GrowSF already this?
Cali’s economy is bigger than the UK, theres a lot of money to be thrown around.
California has far more billionaires than any other state by a large margin. According to Wiki, at under 200, the UK has fewer billionaires than California.
Kind of a useless measure compared to billionaires per gdp or billionaires per capita. “Places with more money have people with more money”
They’ve always got more money to spend.
Oligarchy and democracy are fundamentally incompatible.