I'll make that decision after checking every damn poll I can find.

IDK much about the guy, but it seems if he was really engaged in our party, we'd know & hear more about him, other than the times he pops up to run for office.

His marketing is professional and focused. It does not address ‘messy issuers’ with much more than platitudes. I don’t trust him to be on my side on a lot of stuff. But then, I’m not a billionaire.

He seems to me to be another CEO who believes if we would just run evilness everything like a corporate business, everything would be great. That’s wrong.

(I had to correct a pretty great autocorrect error above)

See below.

to Prop 50 which just redrew the precinct lines here in CA.

He has been funding Democratic candidates and issues for several years. He works closely with labor, which is a key issue for me.

https://democracyalliance.org

https://ballotpedia.org/Democracy_Alliance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Alliance

This post is not an endorsement, but the fact is that I am leaning toward Steyer at the moment.

I also like Katie Porter but ... I also like Eric Swalwell but ...

I know I don't like the San Jose guy in the pockets of big tech, not do I like Becerra, who is a nice guy, but whose record shows that follows instead of leads. Villaraigoso didn't do well last time he ran IIRC, and his numbers are super low ... so that's why I am leaning toward Steyer at the moment.

The commercials are on TV all time. All the money he is spending should be outlawed.


At this point he is a big no with me but if the repukes started to go up to those top two I’m voting for Steyer as last resort. That said, the repukes in the state are doomed as long as the 🍊🐖💩is president.

I don't trust him.

of today’s billionaires? (And no, I am not comparing Steyer to JFK).

I'm leery about him. He's spending millions of his own money to buy the governor's office. I've seen his ads on TV and when he says he'll lower the cost of electricity by 25% but he didn't say how he'd do that.

Another reason I'm leery about him is remember when republicans say we need to elect business owners to office because they understand how the economy and government works but yet we see the disaster the Orange Turd has made of the U.S.. I don't believe just because someone is a business owner automatically makes then the better candidate. I prefer candidates for governor who've held elective office(s) in the past. They better understand how governments at all level work and are better in touch with people.

Steyer is currently in 5th place, 3 points behind Swalwell.

He contributed $87-million to D candidates in 2016. He met with Obama to oppose the Keystone pipeline. He’s a huge environmentalist. Big donor to Hillary.

I think people owe it to themselves to read up on him. The comments so far betray a total lack of knowledge about him.

In 1983, Steyer worked on Walter Mondale's presidential campaign.[38] He raised money for Bill Bradley in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004.[39]


Steyer in 2008
An early supporter of Hillary Clinton in 2008, Steyer became one of Barack Obama's most prolific fundraisers. Steyer served as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 2004 and 2008.[40] Steyer has been a member of the Hamilton Project[41] and has been involved with the Democracy Alliance, a network of progressive donors whose membership in the group requires them to donate at least $200,000 a year to recommended organizations.[42][43]

California ballot measures
Steyer has been active in California politics, particularly in ballot initiative campaigns.[44] In 2010, Steyer joined the former Secretary of State, San Francisco-based George Shultz, to co-chair the No on Prop. 23 campaign. Proposition 23, backed by a coalition including conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, aimed to overturn California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Steyer donated $5 million to the No on Prop. 23 campaign, which succeeded with a margin of 61%.[45]

In 2012, Steyer was the leading sponsor of Proposition 39 on the ballot in California. Its purpose was to close a loophole that allowed multi-state corporations to pay taxes out of state, mandating that they pay in California. Funds raised by closing the loophole, estimated at $1 billion annually, went to a combination of clean energy projects and the state's general fund. Steyer contributed $29.6 million to the campaign, saying that he could wait no longer for the change.[46][47][48] The initiative passed with 61% of the vote.[49]

While supporters of Steyer's effort said it would "help break the partisan gridlock in Sacramento", critics objected that "the increasing involvement of rich individuals perverts the original intent of the initiatives". Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, said that the level of giving was unprecedented for an individual donor.[48] Some critics called the initiative an ineffective jobs stimulus, while Steyer labeled it a success for closing a corporate loophole.[50]

Steyer co-chaired the 2016 campaign in support of California's Proposition 56, which raised the state's tobacco tax by $2 per pack to fund a combination of healthcare programs, Medi-Cal, and tobacco-use prevention.[51] He contributed more than $11 million to the effort and appeared in the campaign's television advertising.When Proposition 56 was approved with 64% of the vote, it became the first successful ballot initiative to raise the tobacco tax in over a decade, ultimately directing over $1 billion per year to the Medi-Cal program.[52][53]

In 2025, Steyer donated $12 million to become the largest contributor to the campaign for California's Proposition 50, which redrew California's congressional districts in response to what supporters described as partisan gerrymandering efforts in other states.The initiative passed with 64% of the vote.[54]

Ideally we'd get the two top vote winners.

I haven't looked into Becerra much. He was so low in the polls. He has experience. Anyone have opinions on him?

And he has a huuge advertising budget.

Solid choice but Swalwell would have won.

Not sure he'll have the charisma to win in debates.

Prefer over Porter but could give her another look.