California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton has claimed $370 million in state funds meant for substance abuse programs instead went to helping the Democrats.
The staggering sum, sourced from the California Cannabis Tax Fund, was sent to a tangled web of organizations that “build the Democrat voter base,” Hilton’s unofficial CAL DOGE alleged.
The cash, collected whenever anyone buys marijuana in the Golden State, ended up with 517 companies who got checks averaging $700,000, the group alleged.
The money was controlled by Elevate Youth California, which was supposed to send taxes raised from cannabis sales under Prop 64 to support substance abuse programs in the state.
But those that received the sum instead included Young Invincibles and the Jakara Movement, nonprofits in LA and Fresno that misused the grants, according to the investigation.
“funneled to [the] voter mobilization machine for California Democrats.” Facebook/@Steve Hilton
The Jakara Movement accepted $350,000 that went towards “Sikh youth empowerment and voter registration.”
Young Invincibles clinched a whopping $1 million grant broadly applied to “civic engagement” efforts, CAL DOGE claimed.
Meanwhile Asian Refugees United, a San Francisco social justice group that is part of the larger Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality network, snagged $800,000 “for LGBTQ+ Asian Storytelling.”
In all, Hilton and his state controller running mate, Herb Morgan, broadly asserted they have uncovered an estimated $250 billion in “fraud, waste and abuse across major state programs” across California.
Hilton said: “In seven days of work, CAL DOGE has already uncovered more fraud than Gavin Newsom and his regime have done in their seven years in power. And we’re not even elected yet!
‘This is exactly why I set up CAL DOGE in the first place, to expose fraud and corruption in the system so we can act to stop it on day one.
“There is much more to come from CAL DOGE and its work will play a huge part in ending 16 years of Democrat one party rule this November.”
The CAL DOGE team is made up of “investigators, tech advisors, and citizen journalists,” according to the release.
Its director, Jenny Rae Le Roux, ran a short-lived campaign in the 2021 California gubernatorial recall election.
The Post reached out to Elevate Youth, Young Invincibles, the Jakara Movement, and Asian Refugees United for comment, but did not hear back.