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Tom Steyer: From cash cow to party crasher?

By Timothy P. Carney
Published January 10, 2020 12:07am ET
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Tom Steyer: From cash cow to party crasher?
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2014, file photo, Environmentalist Tom Steyer speaks to the Center for American Progress’s Second Annual Policy Conference in Washington. The billionaire climate activist Steyer, 57, announced Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, that he will not enter the race to succeed U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in Calif., a move that reshaped the early contest that has attracted a pack of potential candidates. | (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)

Tom Steyer was supposed to be the cash cow for Democrats. Now he may be crashing their party.

He was supposed to be the guy the Democrats would woo with loud but impotent displays of concern about climate change. He was just supposed to cut the checks, bankroll the party leaders, and think he was somehow wielding clout.

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