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𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐈 𝐋𝐀𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐍 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐗𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐆𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐍 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒𝐎𝐌 𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐀𝐘𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝟓𝟎 𝐂𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝟏𝟔 — 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝟐𝟎 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐃𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐋𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐖𝐈𝐅𝐄’𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐈𝐓 𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊.
Eric Daugherty surfaced the segment. Steve Hilton ran the math. 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐨𝐦’𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 $𝟐𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝟏𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 — 𝟓𝟎 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫. Steve walked into a Target and held up the same package on the shelf for 16 cents per diaper. The $20M is going to a Los Angeles nonprofit called Baby2Baby. 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝟐𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲’𝐬 𝐜𝐨-𝐂𝐄𝐎 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐡 𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭 — 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐢𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐨𝐦, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚.
“𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘰𝘮’𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘦’𝘴 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘺𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘯𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵, 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭. 𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵-𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺2𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘤𝘰-𝘊𝘌𝘖 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘩 𝘞𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘰𝘮’𝘴 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵.” — 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐢 𝐋𝐚𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐧
This is the modern Democrat fundraising ecosystem in one transaction. The state writes a $20M check. The check goes to a nonprofit whose co-CEO sits on the First Lady’s separate nonprofit. Mothers end up with the same diapers they could have bought at Target — at roughly 3x the unit cost. The other roughly $14 million of markup disappears into salaries, overhead, and the political-donor network that powers California Democrats.
“𝐀𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲, 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥.” 𝐓𝐨𝐦𝐢 𝐋𝐚𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰𝐬𝐨𝐦 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝟗𝟎 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐨𝐧’𝐬.

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