Prop 1: I dug into the surprise opposition group fueled by dark money
I did not expect to stumble upon what I did.
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Dark money has funded a surprise group campaigning against Proposition 1. I dug into it and didn’t expect to find what I did.
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☑️ What I found when digging into the Prop 1 campaigns
You might have read a few days ago about how Richard Uhlein, heir to the Schlitz Brewing fortune, sunk $6.5 million into a group campaigning against Proposition 1.
Proposition 1, as you likely know if you’re a CapCon subscriber, is on the ballot this year and would expand discrimination protections in the state constitution to several different categories. Here’s a free explainer on that if you need it.
Uhlein donated that money to a group called “Vote NO on Prop One.” I knew the group existed but genuinely hadn’t given it a second thought. Campaigns both in support and in opposition are always expected when something’s up for a vote.
But on Monday, I realized I had no idea who had formed the group or who was running it. That led me down a rabbit hole to some information I didn’t expect to find and haven’t published.
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