Tom Steyer Sends Hillary Clinton a Message, Via Pope Francis and Martin O’Malley

[RiverLover]

Tom Steyer Sends Hillary Clinton a Message, Via Pope Francis and Martin O’Malley
6/18/15



Tom Steyer just sent Hillary Clinton a message: I'm getting impatient.

The deep-pocketed Democratic donor who has pushed President Obama and Hillary Clinton on environmental issues took advantage of Pope Francis's climate-change encyclical to call on the next president to act on global warming. And he effusively praised Martin O'Malley for taking the lead.

Steyer thanked O'Malley, the long-shot Democratic 2016 contender, for urging the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline and spelling out a detailed plan of action to confront Earth's rising temperatures. In doing so, Steyer created a clear contrast between O'Malley and Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner who has yet to take a position on the controversial pipeline and so far has not laid out nearly as detailed a vision for fighting global warming.

"Today, Pope Francis issued a powerful and inspirational encyclical on climate change—and I'm happy to see that many of our leaders are already heeding his call to action," Steyer's statement read.

Citing O'Malley's environmental plan, which calls for rejecting Keystone, Steyer added: "This is exactly the type of leadership on climate change the pope, military and business leaders are calling for—and that we need from our next president."

The politics of Steyer's statement are unmistakable. During the 2014 midterm elections, the environmental billionaire spent more than $69 million in a bid to elect Democrats with a strong record on climate.

That was enough money to make Steyer that cycle's most generous public donor....

http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/tom-steyer-hillary-clinton-climate-change-encyclical-20150618

Steyer's green group NextGen Climate also released a digital ad suggesting that any elected official who fails to heed the pope's global warming warning is in the pocket of the Koch brothers~

I'm so grateful the planet has a billionaire on the GOOD side, to help fight off the Koch's and to influence Democratic candidates.

Here's another of nextgen's vids on the subject~

One more important video~

He's our David vs Goliath (Koch bros)

[snooper2]

1. greatness

GO MARTIN GO!

[RiverLover]

2. Go Martin Go!

Here's to saving sustainable life on earth!

[cali]

3. I think it's amusing how billionaire Styers has studiously avoided mentioning

Sanders whose leadership on climate change in the Congress is widely recognized. He's never mentioned him. In any case, Steyer endorsed Hillary when he knew or should know of her avid backing for fracking, her close ties with big oil, her refusal to speak out on Keystone. I wonder what Steyer thinks of the TPP and other trade agreements, particularly as TAA expressly outlaws climate change from being addressed in any future agreement.


Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, self-described democratic socialist. Sanders has one of the strongest climate change records in the Senate. In fact, according to rankings released by Climate Hawks Vote, a new super PAC, Sanders was the No. 1 climate leader in the Senate for the 113th Congress that ended in January.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05/bernie-sanders-greenest-presidential-candidate

One might almost think that Steyer is offended by Bernie's constant billionaire bashing.

[RiverLover]

6. He probably is offended.

nt

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Transparent, huge turn off.

Billionaire touting the Pope and not mentioning Bernie Sanders...why would I trust him again?

[RiverLover]

5. He's helping elect Democrats who place Climate Change as a top priority, that's why.

It just happened that O'Malley raised the bar on a Carbon reduction plan, which came around the same time as Pope Francis' sweeping, historical encyclical on saving the planet as a moral responsibility.

And Bernie just recently said he doesn't want billionaire's backing, & doesn't want Tom Steyer's financial support....

And he lambasted the growing influence that major donors like Charles and David Koch on the right and Tom Steyer on the left now have on the political process.

"Frankly, it is vulgar to me that we're having a war of billionaires," Sanders said.

Asked whether he would bless a wealthy donor's support for a pro-Sanders Super PAC, he said: "No."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/30/politics/bernie-sanders-presidential-run-first-interview/

[Bluenorthwest]

7. And that's why I'm for Bernie, O'Malley pushing this idea that church newsletter is our only

science and is somehow 'historic' when it's just a church newsletter with a big section attacking abortion rights which is a major plank from the Republican platform.
As a Democrat, I have a planet full of scientists to look to on climate change, the preacher man is not required at the meetings, thanks.