Tom Steyer Targeting Rick Scott In November On Climate Inertia, Denial [View all]

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Tom Steyer's Super PAC, NextGen Climate Action, says Florida is among the states in which it will spend up to $100 million in 2014 to make climate change a "wedge issue" among voters who may otherwise stay home. "NextGen Climate and our partners will mobilize low-propensity Hispanic voters by nano-targeting in South Florida and the I-4 Corridor," a strategy memo reads, signaling the effort will be on a ground game rather than paid media.

The memo includes quotes from Scott casting doubt on man's contribution to climate change and signals one tactic will be to highlight Scott's initial refusal to join a lawsuit against BP for the gulf oil spill.

The effort has larger overtones given Sen. Marco Rubio's own doubts about man's contribution to climate change and Rubio's 2016 presidential aspirations. Former Gov. Jeb Bush, also looking at a 2016 run, has made similar comments.

"In Florida, millions of people and trillions of dollars in assets are at risk due to rising sea levels," Steyer, who got rich as a hedge fund executive, wrote in an opinion article Thursday for the liberal Huffington Post. "Bringing climate change to the forefront of American politics means making politicians feel the heat — in their campaign coffers and at the polls — and it's time we voters make a change."

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