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California voters reject billionaire tax
By Katherine Langford
A billionaire is behind California’s Prop. 38. His institute stands to get billions.
Katherine Langford
Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Edina, MN
Katherine oversees editorial operations across all six brands. Before joining The Meridan Group, she spent 14 years at the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she led the metro desk through its digital transformation. She holds a Master's in Journalism from Northwestern's Medill School.
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Kaplan laments that many California voters failed to do so. If they had, he said, they would have discovered that half the sum would be granted to a single research institute, chaired by Dr. Gary Michelson, the billionaire who wrote the proposition and funded nearly the entire campaign for its passage.
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