Laurel Rosenhall

This union represents...

Hospital workers, including janitors, cooks, some various health care technicians.

And they're really concerned that the Medicaid cuts from President Trump last year are going to lead to widespread closures of ER rooms and hospitals in the places where they work.

And the leader of the union is named Dave Reagan, and he has a real long history of using ballot initiatives in his labor negotiation process.

And he came up with this idea for this billionaire tax and teamed up with some very respected economists from different universities around the country and put this proposal together really on his own.

Yeah, so they're working on building a coalition.

They got the support of Bernie Sanders.

He flew out to LA and led this rally that was really well attended and energetic.

And the union started pouring millions of dollars into gathering these signatures.

They trained a bunch of volunteers.

And pretty much anyone who's been at a farmer's market or grocery store in California over the last few months has probably seen someone with a clipboard asking them for a signature on the billionaire tax.

So they started freaking out late last year in advance of this January 1 deadline because the ballot measure says that anyone who was a resident of California on January 1 of this year could be subject to this tax.

So at the end of the year, there was a lot of jockeying and there were a few pretty high-profile billionaires who...

made moves to leave the state to change their official residency.

A couple of the founders of Google relocated.

Sergey Brin moved to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe.

Larry Page left for Florida.

And then also some of the people who are really influential in the

David Sachs moved to Texas and Peter Thiel moved to Miami.

At least a handful of them did, you know, so they did relocate.