If you live in California and you drink beer, or wine, or distilled spirits, you have probably heard about the proposed constitutional amendment to raise taxes on alcohol by staggering amounts. If not you can read about it here at the LAist.
One thing that really stood out to me in the proposal was this;
(c) Fifteen percent for the funding of grants for naturopathic treatment and recovery programs for alcohol addiction.
It seems very odd that such a significant amount of grant money would be directed specifically towards naturopathic treatments. So a little snooping turns up the following in LinkedIn.
Not much information can be found about the 21st Century Wellness Initiative, and it would be hard to know if this is even the correct Kent Whitney. However we can locate Kent M and Josie Whitney to the San Diego area. A reverse white page search shows a San Diego household with a Kent M Whitney and a Josie B Whitney living here;
If this wild conjecturing is true, this plan is actually kind of clever, create a constitutional amendment to provide $900M of funding to a tiny industry and be positioned to make use of the grant money. At this point it is impossible to connect enough dots to come to any real conclusions. Is the Kent Whitney in LinkedIn the same Kent Whitney behind the tax increase proposal? Is 21st Century Wellness Initiative a naturopathic prevention or treatment program? However, if it does turn out to be true let me be the first to say, “Kudos to you Kent Whitney!”