CAL DOGE has claimed practically $1 billion was taken from a California photo voltaic panel program and funneled into Democratic voter registration and activism.
The report, out Thursday, argues $928 million from fuel tax and electrical payments supposed for photo voltaic panels for condo buildings went to the leftist teams.
SOMAH, which stands for Photo voltaic on Multifamily Inexpensive Housing, was created by AB 693 in 2015. Since then it has been funded for as much as $100 million yearly utilizing “cap and commerce auctions proceeds.”
CAL DOGE stated that in keeping with SOMAH’s newest report they’ve accomplished solely 269 tasks for a complete of $72 million.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, who has maintained his lead within the race within the newest ballot, stated he needs to know the place the remainder of the cash went.
“$928 million has been stolen. Your cash,” Hilton stated. “Have you learnt the place it’s gone? Voter registration. By leftist teams supporting the Democratic Social gathering.
“It’s an absolute scandal. Simply the newest within the amount of cash that’s been stolen from you.”
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The report lists what CAL DOGE referred to as the companion organizations of SOMAH, who have been “double dipping on public funds to offer photo voltaic panels on condo buildings.”
It continues: “However truly are constructing a left-wing activist machine in economically deprived neighborhoods throughout the state.”
CAL DOGE Director Jenny Rae Le Roux stated that when this system started Californians have been promised it could decrease their utility payments. However what has occurred is the alternative.
In the meantime everybody besides who was in this system has seen their utility payments greater than double what they have been paying in 2015, she claimed.
Underneath SOMAH’s construction, GRID Alternate options is a non-profit that serves as a key program administrator on the workforce, whereas the California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) is promoted as a long-standing companion and community-based coordinating entity for outreach that will get paid by GRID’s workforce as a subcontractor, CAL DOGE claimed.
CEJA’s associated entity, CEJA Motion, is a 501(c)(4) political group that explicitly seeks to construct political energy and operates as a venture of Tides Advocacy, in keeping with CAL DOGE.
CAL DOGE stated the political group revealed voter guides, and mobilized voters of coloration in 2024, together with endorsing 24 progressive candidates for the CA legislature.
It claimed the “fiscal sponsorship construction and overlapping ecosystem is how public funds meant to tell tenants about photo voltaic advantages are not directly supporting partisan marketing campaign exercise.”
Le Roux stated the Trump administration pulled funding from GRID in August 2025, however claimed the cash continues to be flowing in from California with no accountability as to what occurred with these federal funds earlier than.
CAL DOGE is asking on a full audit of the photo voltaic panel program outreach and training spending, together with subcontractors and pass-through funds.
Calls to SOMAH weren’t instantly returned to The Publish.
