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Common Cause

https://www.commoncause.org › california › articles › right-leaning-billionaires-help-bankroll-california-voter-id-ballot-measure

Right-leaning billionaires help bankroll California voter ID ballot ...

Jul 13, 2026The top donor is Republican megadonor Richard Uihlein, who contributed $4 million. Uihlein and his wife, Elizabeth, were the fourth-largest donors to federal elections from 2023 to 2024, according to the nonpartisan campaign finance site OpenSecrets.

Yahoo

https://www.yahoo.com › news › politics › articles › meet-illinois-billionaire-whos-poured-204805361.html

Meet the Illinois billionaire who's poured $17M into Prop 39 ... - Yahoo

Sep 21, 2026The next single-largest donation of about $1 million came from Reform California, Assembly Member Carl DeMaio's PAC. DeMaio, R-San Diego, is one of two Republican state lawmakers who filed Prop 39.

San Francisco Chronicle

https://www.sfchronicle.com › politics › article › richard-uihlein-prop-39-22438880.php

Illinois billionaire pours $17M into California voter ID campaign

Sep 21, 2026Richard Uihlein, cofounder of a leading shipping and packaging company, has been a prominent Republican donor since the 1990s.

The Sacramento Bee

https://www.sacbee.com › news › politics-government › capitol-alert › article316461529.html

Billionaires fuel California voter ID Proposition 39 effort ...

Jul 13, 2026Uihlein and his wife, Elizabeth, were the fourth-largest donors to federal elections from 2023 to 2024, according to the nonpartisan campaign finance site Open Secrets.

AP News

https://apnews.com › article › california-voter-id-republican-funding-4247a4be55bc677c916eb4450b345db3

Why are out-of-state billionaires funding a California voter ID measure ...

Oct 7, 2026Uihlein is joined by Southern California businessman Steven Bray, who loaned the campaign more than $3 million and gave $50,000 outright. The right-wing political group Reform California, tech entrepreneurs Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and former Robert F. Kennedy Jr. presidential running mate Nicole Shanahan are also major donors.

PressReader.com

https://www.pressreader.com › usa › san-francisco-chronicle-late-edition › 20260923 › 281500758166799

Big donor backs ID measure with $17M - PressReader

Sep 23, 2026The ACLU of Northern California and the California Donor Table, a group that supports progressiv­e candidates, have both donated to defeat the voter ID law. The opposition's top individual donors include Netflix founder Reed Hastings ($1 million) and his wife, Patty Quillin ($1.5 million) as well

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documentaries

https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/jared-kushners-tenants-are-davids-going-up-against-goliath-in-netflixs-dirty-money/

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DHS threat indep film co before election Nov 7/20

DHS threatens Netflix filmmakers to keep damning footage from airing before the election: report

Matthew Chapman / Raw Story

On Thursday, The New York Times reported that a pair of Netflix filmmakers shooting a behind-the-scenes documentary about President Donald Trump’s immigration policy were threatened by federal officials, ordered to…

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2/20 d ravich new book Yale Broad-ies

1/2 kids in public school elig free lunch, 20% really poor?

DR says billionaires admit charters do not work, but persist? eg bloomberg

 Goliath 50M$  440M$ betsy has control

NH, MI, WI ~ refuse to meet w/ besty and v pence?!

reed hastings ~ school bd, just corps?!

ALEC walton koch devos; 

joann weiss sp?

uniform nat stds common core boon to vendors

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Goop Lab on Netflix is a sleazy infomercial for her pseudoscience empire

The Conversation

Last week, Netflix dropped the trailer for Gwyneth Paltrow’s new show The Goop Lab.

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bunch m of movie co's boycott

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Netflix charges more per month for you to use its service than it paid in income taxes all last year

"Netflix posted its largest-ever U.S. profit in 2018­­—$845 million—on which it didn't pay a dime in federal or state income taxes," writes ITEP senior fellow Matthew Gardner. In fact, the streaming giant received a $22 million return.

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How much did this election cost per vote?

Based on spending since the March primary, pro-charter outside groups and individuals spent $144 for every vote cast for one of the charter-endorsed candidates. Unions spent $81 for every vote received by teachers union-backed candidates.

Nearly $15 million in outside spending poured in to the LAUSD elections

City records show outside spending by pro-charter groups topped pro-union groups nearly 2 to 1.

* Service Employees International spent money on both sides: $169,972 for charter-backed Monica Garcia; $51,494 for candidates endorsed by teachers unions.

Source: Los Angeles Ethics Commission

Which individuals or groups spent the most money?

More information will be revealed with ongoing disclosure filings, but Reed Hastings, the co-founder of Netflix and a Democrat, appears to lead the pack with nearly $7 million donated since last September to California Charter Schools Assn. Advocates.Hastings, like others, does not appear in city filings as a contributor because he gave to the charter association. That association then spent money on the campaign or transferred funds to other pro-charter groups.

One of these affiliated groups is Parent Teacher Alliance. This is not the PTA, but an affiliate “sponsored” by CCSA Advocates with a name that, on campaign mailers, resembles the better-known and nonpartisan Parent Teacher Assn. That PTA has complained about this similarity.

In city filings, Parent Teacher Alliance ($5.14 million) tops the list of outside spenders. Its money comes largely, perhaps entirely, from CCSA Advocates, which reported transferring $4.53 million to Parent Teacher Alliance in the last four months of 2016.

A small group of wealthy individuals and their foundations are the ultimate sources of funding for the pro-charter groups.

Why did students spend more than a million dollars to defeat incumbent school board President Steve Zimmer?

They did not. The group “LA Students 4 Change” is a pro-charter political action committee managed by political consultant John Shallman and working in conjunction with CCSA Advocates.In an interview with Times columnist Steve Lopez, Shallman explained that his teamrecruiteda group of high school students, who appeared in flyers and became involved in the campaign. The students were to be compensated as much as $500 for their help.

The primary contributor though was former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan, a moderate Republican and Trump supporter, who gave $1 million to this PAC. He gave another $1 million to CCSA Advocates. And he spent an additional $41,398 directly.

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Spiritual teacher Marianne Williamson (Independent)

Online and television: Joe Trippiof Trippi & Associates.

General consultant and direct mail: John Shallman, Dave Jacobson and Mac Zilber of Shallman Communications

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jarvis oppo

WEALTHY POLITICAL DILETTANTES 

Wealthy and superwealthy political dilettantes have become a real menace to taxpayers in recent years. These public policy “dabblers,” whose only expertise is their checkbook, use the initiative process to try to force others to pay for implementing their expensive vision for society. Right now, the two most prominent political dilettantes are the wealthy actor/director Rob “Meathead” Reiner and the superwealthy Reed Hastings, whose company Netflix rents DVDs over the Internet. In many ways it is the dilettantes who pose the most severe threat to taxpayers because they swaddle their tax increase schemes with rhetoric about how their efforts are all for the children — or other sympathetic cause. They do their best to put those who have reservations about opening their wallets for programs of doubtful value, in a position of appearing to be anti-children — or whatever else in on the agenda. In this way the backers of these new taxes suppress meaningful debate while their bulging wallets buy the misleading advertising that carries the day. 

Rob Reiner began by putting Proposition 10, a tobacco tax, on the ballot in 1998. The money was to go to programs for youngsters. Because smokers are about as popular as lepers were in the Middle Ages, the measure passed. Although the measure has provided billions of dollars for programs for children, Reiner was not satisfied with that. First he joined forces with the CTAin an effort to place on the ballot an increase in property taxes. When drafting defects in the property tax increase initiative forced Reiner and the CTA to fold their efforts, Reiner decided that he would pursue his own initiative to provide universal preschool to be paid for by higher income taxes. 

Unfortunately for taxpayers, he used his position as Chairman of the First Five Commission, established by the Proposition 10 tax, to oversee the spending of 23 million taxpayers’ dollars on advertising to promote the preschool concept while his signature gatherers for his new initiative — Proposition 82 — were at work. After studying Proposition 82, the Reason Foundation estimated that only a limited number of new students would be enrolled at a cost to taxpayers of $109,000 for each new preschool student. Taxpayers put up a vigorous campaign against Proposition 82 and, fortunately, voters saw through the charade and voted it down.

 Like Reiner, superwealthy Reed Hastings and his checkbook entered politics in the late 1990s. He began by gathering signatures for an initiative measure to force the state to spend more money on charter schools.When he had nearly enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, the Legislature got the message and increased funding as Hastings desired. While this may have been good for charter schools, it also emboldened Hastings to believe that he could use the same process to make it easier to increase property taxes for school bonds. In 2000, he and a handful of sympathizers spent over $60 million to do away with the two-thirds vote for local school bonds that had protected taxpayers for 121 years. An expensive and misleading campaign that talked about accountability and never once mentioned higher taxes succeeded in passing Proposition 39. The result has been tens of billions of dollars in new bonds, the cost of which is borne exclusively by property owners. 

But Hastings was not through with taxpayers. In 2006, he qualified something he called the “Classroom Learning and Accountability Act,” a first-time-ever statewide property tax, for the ballot as Proposition 88. It would have raised half-a-billion dollars by charging every parcel of property $50 to start. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell is on record favoring the establishment of a state property tax and increasing it by $50 every four years. If passed, Hastings and his friends would have paid another $50 on their mansions and the couple struggling to buy a starter home would pay the same amount. Fortunately, a huge nonpartisan coalition led by taxpayers overwhelmed Proposition 88 with a 77 percent “no” vote. Hastings continues to be a nuisance to taxpayers. In April 2009 he donated over $250,000 to a committee set up to support the May 19 special election propositions, which included Proposition 1A, a $16 billion tax increase. Fortunately, here too the taxpayers prevailed with a limited-budget campaign. For a list of billionaire political dilettantes who helped pass Proposition 39 — raising property taxes on average homeowners by billions of dollars —click here. 

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Reed_Hastings 

Reed Hastings "founded Netflix, Inc. in 1997 and has served as Chairman of the Board from its inception. Mr. Hastings became Chief Executive Officer in September 1998."Prior to joining Netflix, Mr. Hastings served as Chief Executive Officer of Pure Atria Software, a maker of software development tools, from October 1991, until it was acquired by Rational Software Corporation in August 1997. He holds several patents in the areas of data processing and software development."Mr. Hastings joined the Microsoft Board on March 26, 2007. He is an active educational philanthropist and board member of many charitable organizations."Mr. Hastings received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1983 and an MSCS degree from Stanford University in 1988. Between Bowdoin and Stanford, Mr. Hastings served in the U.S. Peace Corps as a high school math teacher in Swaziland." [1]