Tom Steyer’s wallet is boundless, but so’s his – Latest News
Is there a “for sale” signal outdoors the governor’s mansion?
Tom Steyer sure hopes so.
The billionaire has spent about $200 million (and counting) on his own marketing campaign within the June 2 main.
That eclipses the state document of $178.5 million set by former eBay exec Meg Whitman within the main and normal elections for governor in 2010.
Tom Steyer, Democratic candidate for governor of California, speaks at a marketing campaign rally. ZUMAPRESS.com
And it comes after Steyer dropped about $340 million on his pipe-dream bid for the US presidency in 2020.
It’s all a bit unseemly, even determined, as if the ex-hedge-fund supervisor is aware of he can’t win on concepts, coverage or management chops.
So now he’s paid for a seat on the grown-ups’ desk.
By flooding the state with advertisements, he ensures that many citizens are acquainted with his title, some crumbs of his propaganda, and his animus towards President Trump.
But all of the spending can’t change a fundamental fact: Steyer — a phony, a radical, a hypocrite — is a poor match for public workplace.
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He’s a billionaire who’s someway in opposition to billionaires. Only different ones, although. He, himself, is the exception to the rule that billionaires are dangerous.
He additionally amassed a chunk of his (huge) fortune by investing in oil, gasoline and coal. Yet now he rails in opposition to fossil fuels with the zeal of a preacher. He favors imposing sweeping prices on the identical protected, low-cost, dependable vitality that helped make him wealthy.
Another batch of his wealth got here from investing in non-public prisons, together with one which now runs a couple of California detention facilities utilized by ICE to carry unlawful immigrants. Steyer says, in impact, that he’s now seen the sunshine and favors abolishing ICE. Funny how the revelations all the time seem after, and by no means earlier than, guys like Steyer acquire bank.
Meanwhile, Steyer’s marketing campaign claims to prize transparency. This, after he unfold money to myriad digital influencers with orders to advertise the billionaire’s agenda with out essentially mentioning his title — or the truth that he was paying them.
His marketing campaign additionally peddles ball caps emblazoned with the phrases “class traitor.” But if Steyer meant that, wouldn’t he simply give away enough of his money — and never merely pledge to take action — to tumble down a “class” or two (or 10)?
The record goes on.
Steyer’s marketing campaign is all stunts, activism and platitudes.
He’s reportedly spent 20 instances more than the opposite Democratic front-runner within the main, the tasteless former Biden Cabinet secretary Xavier Becerra.
So will voters let Steyer buy the governorship? Doubtful.
It’s too simple to see that his hypocrisy, like his wallet, is aware of no bounds.
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