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In 2022, the Transparency Foundation published a bombshell report revealing that far-Left political groups in just one California county received at least $6 million in taxpayer funding for lobbying and political activities. Worse, the report identified hundreds of millions in state and local taxpayer funds statewide being diverted to far-Left groups for politics.
In the November 2024 election, California voters will have a chance to vote on Prop 34 – which Reform California’s Carl DeMaio describes as “an important campaign finance reform measure to begin to stop the diversion of your tax dollars to political groups.”
Prop 34 would prohibit any taxpayer-funded healthcare group that benefits from a federally subsidized drug discount program from using those funds for politics.
The measure comes in response to abuses by one such healthcare group – the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation.
Run by liberal activist Michael Weinstein, the taxpayer-funded group has spent over $100 million on far-Left political campaigns in California since 2016 alone.
“Given the excessive amount of money they are spending in political campaigns, it is clear that the AIDS Healthcare Foundation is just a far-Left political front group – not an organization really focused on healthcare,” says DeMaio.
“If a group receives taxpayer funds, those funds should go for public services – not political agendas,” DeMaio says.
That’s why DeMaio and his Reform California political organization are urging a YES vote on Prop 34 this November.
“While Prop 34 does not block all of the ways California politicians are funding far-Left political campaigns with your tax dollars, it is an important first step in stopping this inappropriate diversion of public resources for political campaigns,” DeMaio concludes.
