The list of billionaire vote-buyers just keeps on growing. Most people have heard of George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Sheldon Adelson and David Koch. But activists like Tom Steyer are less well known outside of "global governance" circles.

"We have reached a tipping point where mega donors completely dominate the landscape. The 100 largest donors in the 2014 cycle gave almost as much money to candidates as the 4.75 million people who gave $200 or less... It means that candidates running for office are genuflecting before an audience of 100 wealthy individuals to fuel their campaigns... Liberal Democrats like to blow their bugles about how all the big money in politics comes from rich Republicans. Actually, as Vogel points out, 52 of the 100 top donors are Democrats, and the No. 1 donor by far [in 2014] is Democrat Tom Steyer, who chipped in $74 million."

-- Mark McKinnon article

"In a midterm [2014] election on track to be the most expensive in history, billionaires – unsurprisingly – are shelling out a lot of the cash. Three of the top five donors at the federal level are on The Forbes 400 list: Tom Steyer (along with his wife Kat Taylor), Michael Bloomberg and Paul Singer. Of course, those are just the ones who are transparent — many donations aren’t disclosed... Retired hedge fund manager Tom Steyer, the election’s most generous donor, added another $16 million to his NextGen Climate Action PAC. He’s [already] given nearly $58 million to the group, which is trying to elect candidates who pledge to take action on 'climate change'. "

-- Forbes article

"If you had to pick one person who embodied everything that is most irritating and wrong about the Obama administration – the Solyndra-style crony capitalism, the war on free markets, small business and cheap energy, the hypocrisy, the injustice, the dogged pursuit of suicidal leftist causes – then liberal billionaire Tom Steyer is your man... Steyer isn’t, of course, the only creepy rich liberal hypocrite to talk the green talk while privately feathering his nest with fossil fuel interests, nor is he the only one to have abused his cosy relationship with Washington by encouraging it adopt “clean energy” policies from which his own investments benefit."

-- James Delingpole article

Here's a sample of the puerile propaganda from Steyer's organization, NextGen Climate Action, featuring a liberal "greenie" who was foolish enough to build her house in a mountain stream bed -- and then to whine about "climate change" when it gets washed away. As usual, the appeal to the audience is primarily emotional rather than factual, throwing around epithets like "science deniers" to smear critics of the man-made disaster cult while promising to deliver "climate security" to the clueless. Ironically, she is pictured standing in front of a carbon-spewing, tree-crunching bulldozer. But doesn't her 20-something daughter look cute waving the red socialist flag?

Note that Steyer is a graduate of Yale and Goldman Sachs, where he worked with Robert Rubin. His father was a lawyer with the notorious Sullivan and Cromwell law firm.

For background on the "climate change" movement and its elitist backers, see our article "The Earth Charter and the Ark of Hope" and our links to climate science websites.