The Acalanes slate, which includes Renee Nowac, Mark Woolway and Gabriel Ladeen, has also come under intense scrutiny. Woolway once ran right-wing billionaire and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel's "family office," according to his published bio. (Thiel is currently funding J.D. Vance's controversial Senate run in Ohio, and co-authored the book, The Diversity Myth: 'Multiculturalism' and the Politics of Intolerance at Stanford. )