Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Ned Wigglesworth

No. 35 Ned Wigglesworth

The founder and CEO of Spectrum Campaigns, Wigglesworth has been a major part of dozens of winning statewide ballot measures since 2010. This year’s big effort has been leading the Building a Better California campaign, a Big Tech-backed nonprofit aimed at bolstering pro-business and pro-tech candidates statewide as well as opposing the billionaire tax proposed by SEIU-UHW honcho Dave Regan. Building a Better California is comprised of many of the biggest names – and deepest pockets – in Silicon Valley, including folks like Google co-founder Sergey Brin and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen. The results have been mixed, and it is fair to question how long this sudden interest by the Silicon Valley billionaire class into statewide California politics will last. But we do know this – those folks will be laying out a lot of money to sway voters their way in November, and they are not the kind of folks to do that as anything but a long-term investment. If so, the odds are very good of them leaning on folks like Wigglesworth for the foreseeable future.

Updated Aug. 11, 2o26