I gave you the name of a billionaire earlier, this guy has some clout:
The former hedge fund manager is hoping to spend $100 million — $50 million from his personal fortune and $50 million from other donors — to make climate change a top-tier issue in the election, The New York Times is reporting.
Steyer’s group NextGen Climate Action has emerged over the last year as a major player in the growing world of money and politics, a realm in which court decisions such as the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling have tossed out much of the old rulebook.
Steyer’s ambitious $100 million plan would rocket him into the big leagues. As the Times put it, the move would make NextGen “among the largest outside groups in the country, similar in scale to the conservative political network overseen by Charles and David Koch.”