Tom Steyer won’t run for California Senate seat

Tom Steyer is a billionaire environmentalist.
(H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY)

Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer pronounced Thursday that he will not run for California’s open Senate seat, avoiding a dear conflict with state Attorney General Kamala Harris.

“Given a needed of electing a Democratic boss — along with my passion for a state — we trust my work right now should not be in a nation’s capitol though here during home in California, and in states around a nation where we can make a difference,” Steyer announced on Huffington Post

Harris, who announced her campaign

Steyer, a former hedge-fund manager, became one of a nation’s many manifest climate-change activists in 2014 as he plowed scarcely $74 million of his possess income to assistance like-minded Democrats in Senate and gubernatorial races final year. His spending yielded few results: Only dual of his adored Senate possibilities won.

Steyer, who oversees his possess domestic classification and super PAC, pronounced he would “redouble” his environmental activism. “The highway we take might be reduction trafficked and reduction well-marked, though we am really determined,” he wrote. “The tour is distant from over — in fact, it has only begun.”

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