Tom Steyer for Governor? Your thoughts.

[Sibelius Fan]

Surprised he’s running ahead of Katie Porter and second to Eric Swalwell in CA. He’s already spent $86-million of his own $.

Would he be so bad? He seems like a true progressive. He called for tRump’s impeachment in 2017.

[Walleye]

1. Has he ever held public office before? I'm tired of amateurs trying to run things.

[Auggie]

2. Only if absolutely necessary to keep two repukes off the final ballot

I'll make that decision after checking every damn poll I can find.

[CrispyQ]

3. Does he support democratic issues & initatives with his money every election or just when he's running for office?

IDK much about the guy, but it seems if he was really engaged in our party, we'd know & hear more about him, other than the times he pops up to run for office.

[Bobstandard]

4. His marketing focuses on affordability

His marketing is professional and focused. It does not address ‘messy issuers’ with much more than platitudes. I don’t trust him to be on my side on a lot of stuff. But then, I’m not a billionaire.

He seems to me to be another CEO who believes if we would just run evilness everything like a corporate business, everything would be great. That’s wrong.

(I had to correct a pretty great autocorrect error above)

[quaint]

6. But he is one of the most successful hedgefunders of all time!

[kimbutgar]

5. He's trying to buy the governorship with his money

The commercials are on TV all time. All the money he is spending should be outlawed.


At this point he is a big no with me but if the repukes started to go up to those top two I’m voting for Steyer as last resort. That said, the repukes in the state are doomed as long as the 🍊🐖💩is president.

[JoseBalow]

7. I don't trust billionaires

I don't trust him.

[LogDog75]

8. I'm not a fan of his

I'm leery about him. He's spending millions of his own money to buy the governor's office. I've seen his ads on TV and when he says he'll lower the cost of electricity by 25% but he didn't say how he'd do that.

Another reason I'm leery about him is remember when republicans say we need to elect business owners to office because they understand how the economy and government works but yet we see the disaster the Orange Turd has made of the U.S.. I don't believe just because someone is a business owner automatically makes then the better candidate. I prefer candidates for governor who've held elective office(s) in the past. They better understand how governments at all level work and are better in touch with people.

Steyer is currently in 5th place, 3 points behind Swalwell.

[msongs]

9. he could help more by using his money on issues promotion instead of ego wanking nt