US Politics
The Immunotherapy Carve-Out: How Proposition 38 Hijacks Democracy for a Single Institute
Proposition 38 is a California ballot measure that allocates $4.2 billion to a single, unnamed research institute through criteria so specific they appear designed for only one entity, the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy, co-founded by the proposition's chief financial backer. This is a brazen subversion of the democratic process, using voter goodwill to engineer a multi-billion-dollar carve-out for a single, connected institution, betraying the public trust and the very principles of fair competition and transparent governance.
