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Democrats lose another big moneybag donor as Tom Steyer exits in a huff
American Thinker ^ | 01/26/2018 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 01/26/2018 6:42:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Tom Steyer has had it up to here. Not with us Republicans, it seems, but with his own Democrats, and he now plans to cut off their nose to spite their faces. The leftwing billionaire hedge fund speculator has announced he won't be bankrolling the Democratic National Committee as he has in the past, based on his dissatisfaction with congressional Democrats' refusal to continue the government shutdown and go down with it. He wanted them to just keep it shut, never mind that the public wasn't with him. Get a load of his reasoning as reported by the Washington Examiner:

Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer will halt donations to the national Democratic Party committees after members of the caucus voted to re-open the federal government despite failing to secure an immigration deal for Dreamers.

“I don’t have a litmus test on any one thing, but I do have a litmus test for elected officials standing on principle and doing the right thing, looked at holistically," Steyer told Fortune in an article published online Thursday. "And I want to say that after the DACA vote, I have decided not to give anything to the national party committees."

Standing on principle? On principle? This from the guy who calls for higher taxes yet has tax liens owed to the federal government? He doesn't even pay the taxes he owes and yet wants more of them. Only little people pay taxes, see.

It's all part of his general oafishness around public opinion. A rich guy, of course he doesn't care what the public wants, even if they vote.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 01/26/2018 6:42:22 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Ain’t that a shame


2 posted on 01/26/2018 6:45:16 AM PST by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house....)
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To: SeekAndFind

Proof that you can have all the money in the world and still be a miserable SOB.


3 posted on 01/26/2018 6:46:15 AM PST by bramps (It's the Islam, stupid!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Come on Tom, with all that money you certainly have enough brains to realize that the Democrats do not want a solution to the DACA situation. This is all they have left with which to hold the country hostage.


4 posted on 01/26/2018 6:47:14 AM PST by kempster
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To: SeekAndFind

Hate to point this out, but this makes him actually more principled than Mitch McConnell.


5 posted on 01/26/2018 6:47:58 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

Tom Steyer stands on Principal.

A towering figure.


6 posted on 01/26/2018 6:48:36 AM PST by Paladin2
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Rats are scurrying away from each other.

https://media.giphy.com/media/JnFC2pFHjWtQQ/giphy.gif

When will they start eating each other?


7 posted on 01/26/2018 6:49:26 AM PST by Grampa Dave (When is it OUR TURN to keep our own money and live our own dreams!!!!?)
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To: SeekAndFind
It's his money, he can choose to donate it or not.

I think he's decided the horse he was betting on is kinda lame...

8 posted on 01/26/2018 6:49:57 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: SeekAndFind

His every need will be met in a shut down unlike our troops. Anti military is anti-American to me. He is just another anti American elitist.


9 posted on 01/26/2018 6:51:40 AM PST by nclaurel
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To: SeekAndFind
Hopefully this will become a trend. 🌞
10 posted on 01/26/2018 6:51:48 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Maybe this liberal windbag will stop doing his climate change commercials on TV. I couldn't reach for the remote fast enough when he started yapping.

Nothing worse than a rich liberal lecturing the rest of us on how we should open our wallets to fund their global warming scam.

11 posted on 01/26/2018 6:52:39 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: SeekAndFind

He’ll be back. Believe me. The Demon Rats will make sure he gets promised whatever he wants.


12 posted on 01/26/2018 6:52:49 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SeekAndFind

Hmmm... so NOW where is he going to get his insider trading information?


13 posted on 01/26/2018 6:54:04 AM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: SeekAndFind
Democrats lose another big moneybag donor as Tom Steyer exits in a huff

Actually, it was more like a minute-and-a-huff ...


14 posted on 01/26/2018 6:56:20 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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Democrats lose another big moneybag donor as Tom Steyer exits in a huff

It was actually a two-door huff, which gets better gas-mileage than the four-door version ...

15 posted on 01/26/2018 6:58:52 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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Thanks very much ... you've been a great audience. I'll be here all week ...

Try the veal, and don't forget to tip your waitress ...

16 posted on 01/26/2018 6:59:46 AM PST by BlueLancer (Black Rifle Coffee - Freedom, guns, tits, bacon, and booze!)
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To: SeekAndFind
"doing the right thing, looked at holistically,"

Anybody who talks like that is a flaming libtard.

17 posted on 01/26/2018 7:03:07 AM PST by Michael.SF. (Women who are 25 pounds overweight tend to live longer than the men who mention it.)
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To: BlueLancer

Schumer butt hurt from Trump yields big dividends.


18 posted on 01/26/2018 7:05:00 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Standing on principle does not equate to doing the right thing.
19 posted on 01/26/2018 7:08:28 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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“I don’t have a litmus test on any one thing, but I do have a litmus test for elected officials standing on principle and doing the right thing, looked at holistically," Steyer told Fortune in an article published online Thursday."

Can somebody translate this for me? I'm stumped as to WTH he's actually saying.

20 posted on 01/26/2018 7:11:38 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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