Tom Steyer
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And someone has to take them on.
And I'm the only person who's doing it and who wants to tax the billionaires.
He wants the corporations to pay their fair share, but also wants to break the kind of structural, you know,
monopolies that they've created for themselves and that they're wringing every dollar out of.
Javier Becerra, who's one of the other leading candidates, Democratic, has taken the maximum amount of money from Chevron.
He's taken a ton of money from the second biggest oil driller.
He said the oil companies aren't bad guys, we need them, and he's drilling more oil in the state of California, and he has no environmental policy.
That's a Democrat.
We had two fires yesterday in California outside what is normally considered fire season.
We are definitely suffering from the changes in the climate.
The fires are raising everybody's home insurance rates.
And there is no sense that that's just something that happened we should deal with.
That's not true.
We need somebody in the state who's gonna be pushing for the future of what's good for Californians, not being paid to keep the status quo.
And that is exactly what is happening.
And it's amazing because we're heavily democratic state, it's happening with Democrats.
That is, so to a very large extent, what you're saying is,
The status quo doesn't work for working people.
And that's definitely true in the state of California.
And unless we take on the people who run the status quo, which are these corporate special interests, we're not going to change it.