Friday, May 23, 2014

Tom Steyer announces $100 million attack on GOP climate ‘deniers’

From:  MSNBC

By Mark Murray
 
 
Tom Steyer, a hedge fund billionaire and founder of NextGen Climate Action at the interest group's offices in San Francisco.
Tom Steyer, a hedge fund billionaire and founder of NextGen Climate Action at the interest group's offices in San Francisco, Feb. 13, 2014.Jason Henry/The New York Times/Redux
 
A Super PAC funded by liberal billionaire and environmentalist Tom Steyer has announced it will spend as much as $100 million this election season attacking Republicans in seven key states who it says are climate-science “deniers.”
“I think the climate is changing, but I don’t believe humans are causing that change to the extent that’s been in the news.”
Colorado Rep. Cory Gardner
 
The Republicans being targeted by Steyer’s political committee, NextGen Climate Action, include Govs. Rick Scott of Florida, Paul LePage of Maine and Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania, as well as GOP Senate candidates Cory Gardner in Colorado, Joni Ernst and Mark Jacobs in Iowa, Terri Lynn Land in Michigan and Scott Brown in New Hampshire.
These states – all of which President Barack Obama won in both 2008 and 2012 – also play an important role in 2016, given that Iowa and New Hampshire are early presidential nominating contests, and that Colorado and Florida are top general-election battlegrounds.   MORE

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