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    Steyer writes $15 MILLION to his super PAC

    News Guide: Steyer writes $15M to his super PAC

    By PHILIP ELLIOTT 2 hours ago


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    WASHINGTON (AP) — The political parties, their campaign committees and some of their super PACs faced a Saturday deadline to disclose how much donors gave and how much operatives spent in August. Highlights from the filings:

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    BILLIONAIRES STILL OPENING WALLETS
    Hedge fund executive Tom Steyer continued to funnel cash from his personal fortune to his pro-environment super PAC, NextGen Climate Action. Steyer in August wrote his federal committee a $15 million check as it ramps up a political operation to help candidates who pledge to back legislation fighting climate change.

    Steyer has now given $26.6 million this cycle to his efforts, bankrolling it almost entirely on his own.


    NextGen's next largest donor in August was a strategic adviser from Berkeley, California, who wrote a $2,500 check.


    Democrats' bid to keep their majority in the Senate also got a boost from Chicago billionaire Fred Eychaner. He wrote Senate Majority PAC a $1 million check, taking his giving to the committee to $5 million.


    Senate Majority PAC raised close to $6 million last month from donors who face no limits to what they can give. The group, which has deep ties to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, has raised $39 million so far and spent $36 million of it to try to keep Democrats in control of that chamber.


    Senate Majority PAC's sister committee, the House Majority PAC, raised $3.9 million.

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    RNC BEATS DNC
    The Republican National Committee again outraised its Democratic rival last month and is sitting on a $3 million lead.

    The RNC raised $10.1 million in August and has $14.5 million in the bank to pay for polling, data and get-out-the-vote efforts for November's elections. The filing also shows the RNC spent heavily last month, unleashing almost $9.5 million in spending.

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    The Democratic National Committee raised almost $7.4 million last month but also owes almost $2 million to vendors. The DNC spent more than $5.8 million last month and has more than $11 million saved.

    The RNC has outraised the DNC in 11 of the last 20 months. But the DNC prevailed in six of the first seven months this year.


    The RNC has now raised more than $150 million since January 2013. The DNC has now raised almost $133 million.

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    BUT DEMOCRATS BEST GOP SENATE, HOUSE PANELS
    Senate Democrats' campaign arm, defending a narrow majority heading into November's elections, spent more than $14 million last month.

    The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raised $7.7 million in August and spent almost twice that amount. Despite the aggressive spending, the group still has more than $25.3 million to unleash on ads against Republican candidates who are trying to pick up six seats needed to tip the chamber into GOP control.


    The National Republican Senatorial Committee raised $6.1 million in August and spent almost $13 million. The panel still has close to $20 million ready to spend, mostly on negative ads against a handful of endangered Democratic incumbents.


    Party committees have now spent more than $153 million on top of what the candidates and their allies have invested.


    The Democrats' campaign arm has now outraised Republican efforts in 18 of the previous 20 months.


    The Republicans' Senate operation has raised more than $81 million. The Democrats' counterpart has raised $111 million.

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    HOUSE COMMITTEES HAVE $100M ON HAND
    The two party committees tasked with electing House members are sitting on a combined $100 million pile of cash, suggesting voters in the handful of competitive districts will face an onslaught of late political advertising.

    The National Republican Congressional Committee raised more than $4 million last month and banked almost $46 million. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised more than $10 million and has almost $55 million ready to help its candidates.


    Democrats have now outraised the Republicans in 18 of the last 20 months despite long odds of tipping control of the chamber away from Republicans.


    Republicans are expected to hold onto their majority after November's elections, when all 435 House seats are up for election. Redrawn congressional districts favor Republicans and only a handful of seats are seen as competitive. At the same time, the party that holds the White House tends to lose seats at this point in a president's tenure, and President Barack Obama remains deeply unpopular in many congressional districts.


    Even so, the parties have been raising and spending heavily.


    In August, the Democrats spent more than $12 million to help House incumbents and candidates. The GOP spent half of that, but $6 million is still twice what it spent in July.


    Combined, the two party committees have raised more than $260 million so far and have spent $163 million.


    There are currently 233 Republicans and 199 Democrats in the House. Three seats are vacant.

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    Tom Steyer Claims Success In Very Expensive Effort To Make Climate Change A 'Wedge Issue'

    Posted: 11/05/2014 8:29 pm EST Updated: 51 minutes ago



    WASHINGTON -- Tom Steyer's climate-focused electoral efforts came up with mixed results Tuesday, but the billionaire environmentalist and former hedge fund manager said he has no buyer's remorse.


    "I think it was money incredibly well spent. The fact of the matter is, we think this is the big issue facing the United States and the world," said Steyer in an interview Tuesday, hours after Republicans routed Democrats in midterm elections around the country. "I am not regretting a dime."


    Steyer spent more than $74 million this election cycle in an effort to elect proponents of action on climate change. His political action committee, NextGen Climate Action, targeted its efforts in seven states: the Senate races in Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan and Colorado, and the governor's races in Maine, Florida and Pennsylvania. Each race pitted a champion of action on climate change against a candidate who has denied that human activity is driving rising temperatures.


    The goal, NextGen chief strategist Chris Lehane said at a press event in May, was to make 2014 "a pivot year for climate, the year we can demonstrate that you can use climate change as a wedge issue to win in political races."

    Based on Tuesday's outcome, it doesn't look like 2014 was the year after all.


    The candidates backed by NextGen -- all Democrats -- pulled out wins in just three of the seven races: New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Tom Wolf and Michigan Senate candidate Gary Peters. The four winning Republican candidates opposed by NextGen: Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Colorado Senate candidate Cory Gardner, Iowa Senate candidate Joni Ernst and Maine Gov. Paul LePage.


    But Steyer is claiming some non-electoral victories in the effort.

    Among them, getting climate change to emerge as an issue in each of those races, building the group's voter contacts, and engaging volunteers in efforts to get out the vote. On those fronts, Steyer said,

    "We feel really good."


    "We try to separate the world into the stuff we can control and the stuff we can't," he said. "One of the things we can't control is if there's a big Republican wave in the United States of America on the midterm election of a president's second term. In some of those races, that wave swept over us."


    Steyer said another positive result was how much attention the climate garnered in this election cycle, even if all of NextGen's favored candidates didn't ultimately win office.


    In Colorado, the group called out Gardner for his record of denying climate change, which eventually led him to run ads in which he talked about his support for wind power. In Florida, incumbent Gov. Scott was pushed so hard on climate that he eventually had to agree to meet with climate scientists and release a new environmental plan (which didn't actually mention climate change). And in a number of other races, Republicans had to retreat from outright denials that climate change is happening, resorting instead to the "I'm not a scientist" defense.


    "In every state we were active, Democrats and Republicans had to deal with this issue, that it was something where not only do Democrats have to be good on it to turn out votes, but the Republicans really had to move away from denial," said Steyer.

    "They're part-way on the road to actually confronting this issue in a realistic way. I think there's no doubt, if you look at this, it's at a completely different place in the American political landscape than it was at the beginning of the year. I think on that basis, it was a tremendous success."


    While most voters are generally supportive of climate action, it tends to fall below other issues when voters are asked to rank their top concerns. Steyer argues that's the wrong way to approach the topic's importance.


    "The idea of 'climate' -- in quotation marks -- is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a local, human issue," he said. "And so to the extent that you put 'climate' on the ballot, that's never going to move the needle. The fact of the matter is, people care about their own human interests: the people they love, their families and their communities."


    To that end, Tuesday night showcased two environmental success stories: Shaheen in New Hampshire and Peters in Michigan. Both embraced environmental issues in their campaigns and localized the challenges, and used the issues to distance themselves from their opponents.


    Steyer said he's already thinking about the next election. "We've said from the beginning, this has always been a 2014-16 strategy," he said. "We chose our states very deliberately as states that have national importance ... We chose them with an eye to 2016."


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