Billionaire Dem environmental activist not ready to endorse Clinton but Bernie?

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Oh oh......and he raised money for Hillary's campaign? Oh boy......

Billionaire environmental activist not ready to endorse Clinton
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/266414-billionaire-environmental-activist-not-ready-to-endorse

Billionaire environmental activist Tom Steyer isn't ready to endorse Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary and is open to supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) if he's the party's nominee.

"Our real goal has been not to support any one candidate, but to emphasize and highlight the issue (of climate change) so that the candidates can lay out their solutions and so the American people can have a chance to make a decision," Steyer, a Democratic mega-donor, told Reuters in an interview published Wednesday.

"We have always come out and supported the climate champion," Steyer said of the eventual Democratic nominee. "The idea that for some reason we wouldn’t do that, I’d have to understand why in hell we didn’t. Because that has been our practice always."
Sanders appears to have opened up a lead in the early-voting state of New Hampshire, while Clinton is battling the senator in Iowa ahead of the caucuses there Feb. 1.

Steyer, who has raised money for Clinton's campaign and has sought to put a focus on climate change in the Democratic primary, told Reuters that he didn't think Clinton has "fully fleshed out everything she has to say about energy and climate."

"What Bernie Sanders is talking about, which is trying to get back to a more perfect democracy, is something that we support too," the Democratic donor added. "We just think that the idea of ... wishing the rules were different and then pretending they were, is something which, unfortunately, probably would be disastrous from the standpoint of energy and climate," Steyer told the news service.

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1. so much for the bernie crowd criticizing wealthy big shots nt

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2. You want my opinion? Ok

Get ALL the money out of politics completely. Pay our reps minimum wage and let them live a frickin' year on that shit! See how fast that gets raised. 1 person gets to donate 1 dollar and that is IT! Corps can kiss me ass. You get nothing!
I don't give a rats ass if you're poor, middle class or filthy rich, the American people are sold like a damn commodity to the highest bidder. It has to stop!

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3. Millionaires and Billionaires for Bernie?

He can join that exclusive club.

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4. Because....

Hillary doesn't have those

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5. It wasn't meant pejoratively

There are some wealthy folks out there who love Bernie and are more than willing to see their taxes go up to help fix the system.