2020 Democrat Tom Steyer’s campaign paid for aides to attend yoga classes at a San Francisco studio.
A Federal Election Committee form pointed out by the Daily Caller‘s Andrew Kerr on Tuesday showed that the billionaire activist’s team spent $600 on yoga lessons for aides. The campaign spent $300 on the classes by instructor Sophia Mallie in August 2019 and another $300 just a month later.
Tom Steyer’s campaign has spent $600 on yoga lessons. pic.twitter.com/P9cVTKFRhb
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) January 21, 2020
“Currently I’ve had the pleasure to work with the employees of Tom Steyer. We meet on a weekly basis during their lunch break,” Mallie wrote on LinkedIn.
“In my yoga class you will have the opportunity to chant, to harmonize your voice with those around you and as a side effect you might love yourself and your voice even more!” her website reads. “When we sing we create a healing vibration from deep inside that reverberates through our body and into our world.”
The instructor’s biography on IloveNamaste.com further details her experience, saying, “Meet your Namaste Teacher, Sophia Mallie … As a former modern dancer, Sophia found freedom in her yoga practice from the struggle to feel good in her own body.”
Mallie said her superpower is “compassion” and that before yoga, she struggled “to feel good in my own body and in my own skin.”
Steyer, 62, participated in the seventh Democratic debate in Iowa after surprising analysts with a dramatic bump in South Carolina and Nevada primary polling ahead of the February caucuses and primaries. He has reportedly spent more than $100 million on ads since the start of his campaign in August and is polling at 2.4% support in the latest national average from RealClearPolitics.
