FILE: Michael Moritz speaks onstage during “Finding the Next Billion-Dollar Idea” at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Oct. 19, 2016, in San Francisco.

Michael Moritz, the billionaire co-founder of the San Francisco Standard, has reportedly poured seven figures into a group that could help punt California’s controversial wealth tax proposal. 

The New York Times obtained new financial disclosures and named Moritz among a handful of donors in a story published last Wednesday. The contributions from Moritz and others had all been made in early January to Building a Better California, a recently formed political group that will fund various ballot measure campaigns for the upcoming 2026 election in California. While none of the contributions the Times reported were specifically earmarked for combating the billionaire tax proposal, Bloomberg reported that “in a Signal chat with fellow billionaires, [Sergey] Brin floated the idea of raising hundreds of millions of dollars for the influence operation in........

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