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Billionaire Tom Steyer: There’s ‘No Limit’ to How Much I’ll Spend to Combat Donald Trump
Fortune.com ^ | 2017-01-18 | Mahita Gajanan

Posted on 01/18/2017 9:01:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The billionaire Tom Steyer, an environmental activist, said he won't quantify how much he is willing to spend to combat Donald Trump's presidency.

“If you ask me can I put a limit on how much I value the health, the safety, the employment and the civil liberties of Americans, there’s no limit to what I think that’s worth,” Steyer told Bloomberg in an interview. Steyer, a Democrat who spent at least $87 million on the 2016 presidential election, was the biggest individual political donor in the race. According to Bloomberg, Steyer routes most of his money through the NextGen Climate Action Committee, a Super PAC he helped create in 2012 in an effort to devote himself to conservation. During the 2016 election, Steyer funded several anti-Trump ads through NextGen Climate.

Steyer wants to fight against the Trump administration potentially weakening environmental regulations. Trump has said climate change is a hoax invented by China. Although he has let up on some of his campaign promises, like pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, his overall stance on the environment has alarmed conservationists.“We don’t know how much of their campaign rhetoric they’re going to try to put into action,” Steyer said. “But this is the most broad-based and dangerous attack on American values certainly that I have ever experienced in my lifetime and much more than I have ever imagined would happen while I’m alive.”

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KEYWORDS: antitrump; billionaire; billionaires; donaldtrump; fundingtheleft; steyer; tomsteyer; trump; trumptransition
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1 posted on 01/18/2017 9:01:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Run for office jag off


2 posted on 01/18/2017 9:02:56 PM PST by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Dude, just send it all in to The Treasury. Perfectly legal.


3 posted on 01/18/2017 9:03:20 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good. Spend it all you stupid blind fool.


4 posted on 01/18/2017 9:03:45 PM PST by Fungi
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mrs. Steyer’s little Tommy wouldn’t know an “American value” if one bit him on the ass. Your “American values” are not the same as those values held by Americans, Tommy. Get over yourself. Moron.


5 posted on 01/18/2017 9:06:28 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How stupid can this clown be? Only Soros was as big a loser as Styer. They could spend ALL their money trying to defeat Pres. Trump, but they will not succeed, because he has Prayer Power. Make a vow to pray for him, his family, and the country every day of his presidency.


6 posted on 01/18/2017 9:07:24 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Save it. Trump can tweet you into the poor house and the voice of the people are constant and in numbers too numerous to count. You lose both your money and the argument.


7 posted on 01/18/2017 9:07:53 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education/Academia are the farm team for more Marxists coming... infinitum.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hope the Sessions Justice Department finds some crimes committed by this ecofreak loon, such as campaign finance violations, and prosecutes his moonbat a$$.


8 posted on 01/18/2017 9:08:15 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (January 20, 2017....America's liberation day approaches.....)
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“There’s ‘No Limit’ to How Much I’ll Spend to Combat Donald Trump”

Not what he said.


9 posted on 01/18/2017 9:10:02 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. - Romans 13:1


10 posted on 01/18/2017 9:10:59 PM PST by InkStone (Omni Vivum Ex Surfboard)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He needs to send me a million dollars or I’ll tell the press he hates white people.


11 posted on 01/18/2017 9:11:12 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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Amazing what leftists seem to know about American Values.
12 posted on 01/18/2017 9:11:55 PM PST by VR-21
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He has absolutely NO power and I hope he spends every cent he has on this stupid vendetta. He too, like Soros ( who has lost at least 1 BILLION dollars, going short in the markets; not enough...he still, sadly has billions more ) can keep hitting his head in a brick or cement wall.


13 posted on 01/18/2017 9:12:40 PM PST by nopardons
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Great hope he spends himself broke.


14 posted on 01/18/2017 9:12:45 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A fool and his money..


15 posted on 01/18/2017 9:15:35 PM PST by libh8er
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I would love to win the lottery to have this leftwinger wine and dine me for a few months thinking I'm a hayseed with $300M in my savings account.
Just as I'm about to sign a contract I would "reconsider" my choices and opt to have my windfall managed by a different firm. He is undoubtedly an insufferable personality.

16 posted on 01/18/2017 9:16:13 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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Steyer is an idiot in the mold of Gov. Moonbeam, but with more money. He wants Moonbeam’s job. Lord help us in Kalifornia.


17 posted on 01/18/2017 9:18:13 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Steyer said. “But this is the most broad-based and dangerous attack on American values certainly that I have ever experienced in my lifetime and much more than I have ever imagined would happen while I’m alive.”

Looks like he is going to run for office.
18 posted on 01/18/2017 9:18:22 PM PST by microgood
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I hate Trump Tom. Really I do. Send me $10M and I’ll show you how much. On second thought, better make it $20M.


19 posted on 01/18/2017 9:18:38 PM PST by mykroar (Congratulations President-Elect Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If you want a villain devoted to exterminating American industry, here he is. He will not abide anything to be physically made on US soil.


20 posted on 01/18/2017 9:19:27 PM PST by buwaya
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