Web 57DHYAFZZFLWEW May 3 2026 Tom Steyer raises the bar for Clean Energy governance.

Tom Steyer raises the bar for Clean Energy governance.

Tom Steyer advocates for Clean Energy the best.

Actions Speak Louder than Words is the motto his races.

The fact that he has the money to run for Governor

of California is interesting but not prohibitive for

voting for Tom Steyer for Governor by June Second

Two Thousand Twenty Six.   Ballots that can be mailed

in are sent out starting May Fourth.  Tom Steyer advocates

for Clean Energy steered by Democratic Party values above all other topics

Others in the primary debates are either Democrats equivocating

or two Republicans in the primary demonstrably tied to Dirty Energy.

Tom Steyer stands for Clean Energy issues and is not pushing

a crowd sourced personal identity into the consciousness of voters.

For that reason he seems the most honest running in the primary.

Tom Steyer has the endorsement of Bernie Sanders.

Tom Steyer has also polled among the top of the primary group since

the beginning possibly because he can afford his advertising

needs in a difficult race against two Republicans in a nonsensical

Jungle primary that irrationally includes both Democrats and Republicans.

The Jungle Primary vote could be split for Democrats among

the four or more top Democratic contenders who are still in the race.

The Jungle Primary vote will be split for Republicans among

only the Two Republican contenders who are still in the race.

Among two Republican contenders the one speaking with a British

Accent only became a US citizen in Two Thousand Twenty One.

The bellicosity of both Republican candidates match Donald Trump’s.

Tom Steyer has a history of backing and supporting Clean Energy.

Following Tom Steyer’s departure from the Farallon Capital in Two Thousand Twelve,

he became an advocate for climate action and founded NextGen America, a Progressive PAC.

His book, Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War, was a best seller

 in Two Thousand Twenty Four. Tom Steyer started Galvanize Climate Solutions, a climate change-centered investment firm. His mother, Marnie was a teacher of remedial reading at the Brooklyn House of Detention and his father, Roy Henry Steyer, was a partner at a New York law firm and a prosecutor at

 the Nuremberg trials of Twenty Two German Nazis after World War Two. His father was Jewish and his mother was Episcopalian. At Farallon until Two Thousand Twelve, Steyer took high risks on distressed assets within volatile markets. In April Two Thousand Twenty, California Governor Gavin Newsom selected Steyer to chair a task force focused on the state’s economic recovery after the Two Thousand Nineteen to Two Thousand Twenty coronavirus pandemic. In August Two Thousand Fifteen, Steyer launched the Fair Shake Commission on Income Inequality and Middle Class Opportunity, which was intended to advocate policies for promoting income equality. Actions speak louder than words. By looking at one California Propositions Tom Steyer opposed, and looking at many other California Propositions Tom Steyer supported, one sees consistency.  Tom Steyer positions in support of Clean Energy and Income Equality Propositions went on to be seconded by votes of large swaths of the electorate. In Two Thousand Ten Steyer to co-chaired an opposition effort to a conservative ballot initiative.   Tom Steyer was on board for the No on Proposition Twenty Three campaign. Proposition Twenty Three, which Tom Steyer was opposed to, aimed to overturn California’s Global Warming Solutions Act of Two Thousand Six. That conservative proposition was backed by a coalition including conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch. Steyer donated Five million dollars to the No on Proposition Twenty Three campaign. The No vote on Twenty Three was Sixty Three Percent and the Proposition failed.

Tom Steyer acted in support of Progressive Clean Energy and Income Equality California Propositions. Tom Steyer was in support of a tax on multi state corporations operating in California. Tom Steyer was in support of raising the California tax on tobacco by Two dollar per pack. Tom Steyer was in support of redrawing California maps to counter Republican redistricting in Texas in Two Thousand Twenty Six. In Two Thousand Twelve Tom Steyer had stood up against the dirty fossil fuel transporting Keystone Pipeline. In Two Thousand Twenty Steyer co-chaired then–former Vice President Biden’s Climate Engagement Advisory Council to help mobilize climate voters. Looking at the Progressive California Propositions Tom Steyer supported in more detail. In Two Thousand Twelve Steyer was the leading sponsor of Proposition Thirty Nine on the ballot in California. Its purpose was to close a loophole that allowed multi-state corporations to pay taxes out of state, mandating that they pay in California. Funds raised by closing the loophole, estimated at One billion dollars annually, went to a combination of clean energy projects and the state’s general fund. Steyer contributed Twenty Nine point Six million dollars million to the campaign, saying that he could wait no longer for the change. The initiative passed with Sixty One Percent of the vote. Steyer co-chaired the Two Thousand Sixteen campaign in support of California’s Proposition Fifty Six, which raised the state’s tobacco tax by Two dollars per pack to fund a combination of healthcare programs, Medi-Cal, and tobacco-use prevention. He contributed more than Eleven Million dollars to the effort and appeared in the campaign’s television advertising. When Proposition Fifty Six was approved with Sixty Four Percent of the vote, it became the first successful ballot initiative to raise the tobacco tax in over a decade, ultimately directing over One billion dollars per year to the Medi-Cal program. In Two Thousand Twenty Five, Steyer donated Twelve million dollars to become the largest contributor to the campaign for California’s Proposition Fifty, which redrew California’s congressional districts in response to what supporters described as partisan gerrymandering efforts in other states. The initiative passed with Sixty Four Percent of the vote. In Two Thousand Twelve, Steyer hosted a fundraiser at his home for President Obama. At a private meeting, Steyer, along with fifteen other top donors, reportedly pressed the president regarding the Keystone pipeline, which Steyer opposed. Obama was said to be supportive of Steyer’s views, but reluctant to put his full weight behind any initiatives without better proof. Steyer was critical of Obama’s decision to keep an energy initiative as a low priority. Steyer gave a speech at the Twenty Twelve Democratic National Convention, saying that the election was “a choice about whether to go backward or forward. And that choice is especially stark when it comes to energy”. Steyer in debate criticized the Twenty Twelve Republican presidential nominee who Steyer said would take no action to reduce US dependence on fossil fuels. In November Two Thousand Twenty Five, Steyer entered the Two Thousand Twenty Six California Governor’s race to succeed Gavin Newsom. Steyer portrayed himself as an outsider focused on affordability and unafraid to “change up the system” in an open race without a clear front-runner. Asked why he invests his money into elections rather than philanthropic organizations, Steyer stated that the price of inaction is too high not to take a direct role. He has said that he opposes Citizens United versus FEC, the Two Thousand Ten Supreme Court decision allowing unlimited corporate donations to super PACs. In October Two Thousand Seventeen, Steyer said that he was in favor of raising personal taxes because upper-income people in the United States had done “disproportionately well” at the expense of working families. Steyer called one version of a Two Thousand Seventeen Republican tax reform proposal a “thinly veiled reverse Robin Hood”. Five Rights. In November Two Thousand Eighteen, Steyer outlined five non-partisan issue areas on which he said the Democrats should campaign, and which “represent essential freedoms that should be guaranteed for all Americans”: voting rights protections, a clean environment, a complete education, a living wage, and good health. Steyer practices a modest lifestyle but wears tartan neckties every day because “You have to dress up for a fight.” In his late thirties, he began an involvement in the Episcopal Church, the religion of his mother, galvanizing his political advocacy.