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Inside a green billionaire's Virginia crusade
Politico ^ | November 11, 2013 | By ALEXANDER BURNS and ANDREW RESTUCCIA

Posted on 11/11/2013 1:48:05 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Tom Steyer is Virginia’s $8 million man.

The California billionaire spent nearly that much from his personal fortune to make an example of Republican Ken Cuccinelli for his arch-conservative views on the environment. The sum is more than three times the investment that’s been previously reported, and it nearly matched what the Republican Governors Association, the largest GOP outside spender, put into the Virginia governor’s race. It is more money, on a per-vote basis, than the famously prolific conservative donors Sheldon and Miriam Adelson spent in the 2012 presidential election.

Steyer’s political committee, NextGen Climate Action, publicly entered the Virginia race in August by paying to air a wave of television ads produced by Democratic Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe’s campaign. The spots blistered Cuccinelli for launching an investigation into the research activities of a University of Virginia climate scientist.

What unfolded in the ensuing months was an overwhelming flood of spending from the coffers of a single donor determined to inject climate into a race in which state education and transportation issues, and a federal government shutdown, almost certainly played a more decisive role. Steyer paid for $3.1 million in TV advertising, $1.2 million in digital ads, 12 different pieces of campaign mail, a field program that hit 62,000 households on get-out-the-vote weekend and even a Cuccinelli impersonator who showed up at public events carrying a briefcase of mock cash to attack the Republican’s ethics. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: climate; green; watermelons

1 posted on 11/11/2013 1:48:05 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Ahh, so this is the CA Global Warming Nazi.
Let me guess...he has connections all over Silicon Valley ending with Al Gore.


2 posted on 11/11/2013 2:03:40 PM PST by Zathras
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To: Brad from Tennessee

What’s his connection with George Soros??


3 posted on 11/11/2013 2:08:41 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: elpadre

Beard? Masseuse?


4 posted on 11/11/2013 2:11:26 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I thought campaigns and PACs could have no coordination? but the McAwful campaign produced his ads?


5 posted on 11/11/2013 2:12:51 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Private equity.
Made his money just like Romney.
Apparently it’s OK if you’re a liberal.


6 posted on 11/11/2013 2:15:37 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's 3rd term: squaw Warren? Lord help us!)
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To: Zathras

Goldman Sachs alum.


7 posted on 11/11/2013 2:17:11 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's 3rd term: squaw Warren? Lord help us!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Everyday more info comes out and makes the Cuch near victory even more amazing.


8 posted on 11/11/2013 2:18:22 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Tom Steyer info (never heard of him until now):

http://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/hedge-fund-news-george-soros-thomas-steyer-paul-singer-27719/

http://jewishbusinessnews.com/2013/09/11/tom-steyer-makes-a-stand-against-the-proposed-keystone-xl-oil-sands-pipeline/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/business/hedge-fund-chief-takes-major-role-in-philanthropy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://inagist.com/all/377438314363883520/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2011/09/21/an-accidental-billionaires-political-emergence/


9 posted on 11/11/2013 3:50:44 PM PST by EverOnward
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To: Brad from Tennessee

ping


10 posted on 11/12/2013 3:40:48 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I can’t find the connection but is it just a coincidence that the one of the software programs fostered on Doctors to communicate with Obamacare is called NextGen. Using “stimulus” money healthcare providers were given incentives to use government approved programs Nextgen was one. Those that didn’t use government approved programs will face fines in the future. (If you like your program you can keep it)


11 posted on 11/12/2013 4:03:16 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
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To: shoff
Steyer may have borrowed the Nextgen name. Al Gore's UK-based hedge fund is called Generation Investment Management LLP. Like Gore, Steyer manipulates enviro-politics to enrich himself. Steyer is known for his campaign against the Keystone pipeline expansion and was a speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. Steyer is invested in an existing pipeline that would compete with Keystone.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/08/tom-steyer-the-shady-billionaire-with-millions-of-reasons-to-kill-keystone-xl/

12 posted on 11/12/2013 10:28:41 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I am shocked to find another crony capitalist involved in global warming, err…cooling…climate change


13 posted on 11/13/2013 3:30:31 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
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