Reuters’ exclusive with billionaire Tom Steyer had some revealing news about Hillary Clinton, as the article’s title read “Exclusive: Billionaire green activist Steyer not ready to back Clinton, open to Sanders.” But, Steyer also reveals how he plans to target millennials, and it involves how they “never have a budget.”
Steyer made his money through investing, including in fossil fuel energy, at Farallon Capital Management, which he founded in 1986. He left in 2012 though, as he “no longer felt comfortable being at a firm that was invested in every single sector of the global economy, including tar sands and oil.”
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Placed towards the end of the article is how Steyer plans to target millennials, a generation which believes in climate change and cares about it as an issue. Of the seven candidates Steyer endorsed in 2014, only three won. And he says he’s learned his lesson from 2014, of which he laments low voter turnout, including among young people.
In 2014, reached out to voters through NextGen Climate, his environmental organization. He plans on doing something bigger this time around. The group has information campaigns, including on college campuses.
The piece talks up how much Steyer could help Hillary. And, he has supported her in the past, with a fundraiser at his San Francisco home and by supporting her in 2008. It’s thus that much more noteworthy he wouldn’t be supporting her from the beginning for this election cycle, and so close to the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary.
As Steyer told Reuters, his “real goal has been not to support any one candidate, but to emphasize and highlight the issue (of climate change) so that the candidates can lay out their solutions and so the American people can have a chance to make a decision.”
Yet the article closes with this statement from him:
Watch out for a partisan billionaire who “never has a budget” with a group coming to a college campus near you.
