Steyer Group Will Spend $45 Million on Youth Turnout

[RandySF]

A progressive nonprofit funded mainly by Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer is investing $45 million as part of a youth voter turnout campaign ahead of the 2020 election.

NextGen America said the multimillion-dollar investment will go toward registering, engaging and mobilizing young voters in 11 states to elect Democrats up and down the ballot as part of efforts to elect a Democratic president and deliver control of the Senate and state legislatures across the country to Democrats.

“Yet again, it’s going to come down to young Americans to save the country,” NextGen America Executive Director Ben Wessel said in the Monday announcement. “NextGen America’s 2020 program will beat Trump, flip the Senate, and make sure that our generation has a prayer at a livable planet with a more equitable economy. We absolutely cannot afford to lose this year.”

The group, founded by Steyer, is focusing the organizing campaign on 11 battleground states: Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.




https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/470920-progressive-group-to-spend-as-much-as-45m-to-turn-out-young-voters

[LonePirate]

1. Efforts like this are what millionaire and billionaire Dem donors should be funding.

[renate]

2. I've never understood the hate Steyer gets here from some (not all)

A billionaire with a conscience is a person with a conscience. And he’s been running anti-Trump ads since day one.

I’ve always liked him and now I like him even more.

[RandySF]

3. A conscience backed up with big, fat checks.

[renate]

5. Exactly! He's the anti-Trump in more ways than one

He uses his money to make the world better and more equitable (and, with the climate emergency, more survivable).

Total good guy in my book, as far as I know.

[SMC22307]

4. Yesss, this gives me hope. (n/t)