Tom Steyer group to spend $2.5 million mobilizing young Wisconsin voters, targeting Republicans
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Tom Steyer group to spend $2.5 million mobilizing young Wisconsin voters, targeting Republicans
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By Jessie Opoien Mar 13, 2018
Tom Steyer believes the millennials are our future. So he's spending tens of millions of dollars to organize them, and let them lead the way.
Steyer, a billionaire former hedge fund executive turned liberal political activist, has committed to spending $30 million in 10 states to register and energize progressive, millennial voters — $2.5 million of which will fund efforts in Wisconsin, home of Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan.
"We are focused on registering, engaging and empowering the under-represented parts of society, which very much includes millennials," Steyer said in an interview. "Traditionally, people have felt organizing millennials is too expensive, too time-consuming. We feel it is the essence of democracy to make sure the parts of society that aren’t participating enough participate."
......................... the group plans to have 53 paid staff working on 35 campuses.
At least four of those campuses will be community colleges, which generally don't see the kind of political engagement efforts that larger universities do, a spokesman for the group said. NextGen staff will also target millennials who aren't in school, Steyer said
"We’re able to fill some of these gaps that other (organizing) groups aren’t in," said George Olufosoye, the group's Wisconsin youth organizing director.
In Wisconsin, the group will focus its efforts on supporting Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Democratic challengers to Walker and Ryan........................
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