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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?
They’ve always got more money to spend.
Oligarchy and democracy are fundamentally incompatible.
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”