The wealthy pumped I think over $300 million into ads against prop 40 and drafted 41+42 to sow confusion about it. As much as I’d like to hold my fellow Californians to a higher standard, it became incredibly murky by design. It doesn’t help that people really worry that billionaires would leave the state (they won’t), and that they’ll uproot their companies and take those jobs away (they won’t).

There’s also a problem that too many Californians see themselves as temporarily embarrassed billionaires, so there’s that.

Maybe you’re right, we really can be the common clay of the new west.

I’d still like to see his ass deported though