USA TODAY: Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer will target Republicans in seven Senate and governors’ races this year, as he pushes to make climate change a top issue in November’s elections, his political aides announced Wednesday.
His campaign — which will include television ads and on-the-ground efforts to persuade women, young adults and minorities to vote in traditionally low-turnout midterm elections — will hit Republicans in competitive Senate contests in Colorado, Iowa, Michigan and New Hampshire.
Those seats, all currently held by Democrats, are crucial to Democrats’ efforts to retain their Senate majority in November. They also are key to the party’s chances of holding the White House in 2016… (more)
EDITOR: We think no one, Democrat or Republican, should be allowed to donate tens of millions to political campaigns. At least with Tom Wolf, it is his own money or money he has borrowed. But that is bad enough.
