The Billionaire donor and liberal activist Tom Steyer, who flirted with the idea of running for president earlier this year but declined "I'm not a scientist"., now says he will now seek the Democratic presidential nomination, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
Republicans throughout this election season have sought to
tactfully avoid getting too deep into the debate over climate change with one
sentence: "I'm not a scientist".
Now NextGen Climate, the outside spending
group funded primarily by billionaire Tom Steyer, is launching a series of
television ads in Florida and Washington equating lawmakers who use the line to
cavemen. (The ad going after Florida Governor Rick Scott is below.)
The debate over the science
behind climate change is one that has raged on Capitol Hill for years and
lawmakers have shown no signs of reaching an agreement on the issue
at any point soon. In fact, moves by the Environmental Protection Agency
to use new rules tailored to each state to cut down on power
plant emissions have surfaced throughout the campaign season as an example
cited by some candidates of government overreach on the issue.
Yet
Steyer's group, which has been spending in key racesthroughout
the country in support of lawmakers that back bills and regulations to address
the issue, says the science is more than settled and those who disagree
are, according to a release from the group, operating with a "troglodyte
agenda."
The ads come at the end of the group's "science denier week," where it has attacked lawmakers on the other side
of the debate. The ads are scheduled to run Sunday during the political
talk shows.
No word yet if the Geico Cavemen are
on board.
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