In an American Prospect column, Harold Meyerson blames SEIU local leader Dave Regan and outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom for California voters' defeat of the Proposition 40 billionaires' wealth tax and passage of the Texas-style Proposition 42, arguing Newsom shielded billionaire backers like Sergey Brin for his presidential run. He calls Newsom's commutation of 500-plus death sentences commendable but no reprieve from his identity as the billionaires' boy.