Excuse Me, but California Dems Stole How Much Again?

PJ Media ^ | 02/13/2026 | Stephen Green

[SeekAndFind]

"A million here, a million there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money," Sen. Everett Dirksen is supposed to have said more than 50 years ago, and if you do that 370 times, according to California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, you might have enough to cover the Golden State taxpayer dollars diverted into Democrat "voter machines."

The details get a little technical — money laundering isn't supposed to be easy to follow, after all — so I'll break down Hilton's allegations as quickly and cleanly as possible before we get to the big picture.

According to Hilton’s unofficial CAL DOGE, after California voters approved the Prop. 64 Cannabis Tax (I'll get back to what it's supposed to fund), here's what happened:

1. Californians voted to fund youth drug prevention through the Cannabis Tax. Instead, $370M in revenue is bankrolling leftwing activism.

2. The money flows through a single unelected nonprofit - The Center at Sierra Health Foundation’s Elevate Youth program.

3. The Center has gotten rich off this arrangement - growing from $11.8M in 2018 to $197M in 2024. The CEO makes over $600K.

4. The Center runs Prop 64 dollars through to a web of NGOs, including the Jakara Movement, Young Invincibles, and Asian Refugees United - for activism, organizing, and voter registration.

5. This is not drug prevention - it’s a taxpayer funded pipeline from the governor’s office to leftwing political organizing.

Those are the "voter machines" referenced earlier. There's nothing wrong with voter registration and GOTV efforts, but using state funds to favor one party — well, that's what happens in one-party blue strongholds like California.

Here's the kicker, so to speak: The money was supposed to go toward solving youth substance abuse problems.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; corruption; demsstole; theft

[SeekAndFind]

Let's get back to that Center at Sierra Health Foundation, because it's just one state-level example of the national-level corruption uncovered last year by Elon Musk's DOGE and Data Republican. According to Hilton's organization, Sierra Health "retains 15 to 20 percent" of Cannabis Tax revenues as "administrative fees," which is nice non-work if you can get it. From there, the center "then sub-grants the remaining funds to community-based organizations through its own application process."

[FreeperCell]

all of it.

[exnavy]

Why is no one ever held accountable? If you or I did any of this we would be locked up for ever.

[gildafarrell]

How much kickback does gruesome newson receive? ol’ pedo slowjoe always got his usual 10% on any and every deal.

[Liz]

CAL DOGE (a California effort against govt waste) alleged in early 2026 that the Center at Sierra Health Foundation was involved in a $370 million scheme where California cannabis tax revenue, intended for substance abuse prevention, was redirected into a voter registration and “leftwing activist” slush fund.

Key findings include Misappropriation of Funds: CAL DOGE alleged that $370 million in Proposition 64 cannabis tax revenue was siphoned away from intended drug prevention programs.

“Slush Fund” Claims: The investigation claimed this money was channeled through the Center at Sierra Health Foundation to various non-profits—such as the Jakara Movement, Young Invincibles, and Asian Refugees United—for voter registration and political organizing rather than healthcare.

Rapid Growth: The investigation highlighted that the Center at Sierra Health Foundation’s revenue grew from $11.8 million in 2018 to $197 million in 2024, alleging they “got rich” off this arrangement.......in just seven days, they uncovered substantial fraud within California state programs.

[nickcarraway]

You’d be held accountable if you did a fraction of this.

[exnavy]

Yes.

[nickcarraway]

I know you would never do that, but tell the Democrats.

[BenLurkin]

Pretty sure Dirkson said “Billion here, billion there.”

But it’s been awhile.

[Karliner]

Good grief.

[Enterprise]

Prop 64 is just one proposition. Try to imagine how many billions upon billions of dollars from other propostions that have been passed over the years that are being "redirected" from the purpose from the stated intent of the propositions. As long as Democrats are in charge, there will never be an audit of the propositions.

California - home to "atmosphic rivers" of stolen tax dollars. Paradise for the Democrat fraud machine.

[WinstonSmith1984]

The entire state is a crime scene.

[neverbluffer]

And now you know how the Dems win elections. RICO anybody?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Democrats -- looting the "treasury" with some help from their Democrat-adjacent RINOs, and now:

An outdated chart, for the continuing climb takes it now off the scale

[Enterprise]

Friend, I couldn’t agree more. The Democrat Party should be charged criminally and civily under RICO. It’s leaders need to be jailed and its assets seized.

[exnavy]

Yes, i avoid known criminal activity.

[coincheck]

The Democrat and Republican parties are private organizations after all.
“No one is above the law”…….

[ronnie raygun]

Above the law is starting to reviel its ugly self and if we don’t start prosecuting all of them NOW we are lost for good, WHEN TRUMP, WHEN DOJ, WHEN.............