Greenie billionaire Tom Steyer, who inexplicably got himself a perch on the last Democratic debate podium despite no real support, has been involved in a rapid-fire series of sleaze scandals.
His latest is open bribery, even if, as the Associated Press says, it is not illegal.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A top aide to Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer in Iowa privately offered campaign contributions to local politicians in exchange for endorsing his White House bid, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the conversations.
The overtures from Pat Murphy, a former state House speaker who is serving as a top adviser on Steyer’s Iowa campaign, aren’t illegal — though payments for endorsements would violate campaign finance laws if not disclosed.
There’s no evidence that any Iowans accepted the offer or received contributions from Steyer’s campaign as compensation for their backing.
But the proposals could revive criticism that the billionaire Steyer is trying to buy his way into the White House. Several state lawmakers and political candidates said they were surprised Steyer’s campaign would think he could purchase their support.
Tom Courtney, a former Democratic state senator from southeastern Iowa who’s running for reelection to his old seat, told The Associated Press that the financial offer “left a bad taste in my mouth.”
So, blue-on-blue thievery, from a campaign for a guy with a lot of money and not very much public support, poaching from the flailing and soon to be gone Harris campaign. As low of sympathy any of us have for Harris, this stinks.
That’s two rounds of sleaziness and the guy has only been in the campaign for just a few weeks.
It tells us a lot about Steyer’s business style and maybe how he got rich in the first place. Steyer’s a greenie billionaire, and we all know how many Solyndra-style corruption rackets already exist in that field.
But from this string of bads, it raises one thing: How exactly again did Steyer win that inexplicable seat on the Democratic campaign debate stage.
We all know that the previous staff greenie, Gov. Jay Inslee, went down in flames because voters weren’t interested.
Now we are supposed to think that Steyer, with his greenie agenda, a billionaire from it no less, somehow managed to whip up the right amount of Democratic support to earn a podium.
Color me skeptical. The conclusion that can be drawn from this Steyer fiasco is that the Democrats are still rigging contests and a guy like Steyer has some very corrupt tools in his box to flourish in that environment.
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Tom Steyer just another wealthy Democrat and Globalists wanting to force America back into the Paris Accord he just your average liberal democrat and socialists