Tom Steyer Selling San Francisco Home Because of ‘Climate Crisis’
Could it instead be the dismal California economy and failing state that is causing the Steyers to move?
By Katy Grimes, September 26, 2020 9:15 am
“Billionaire environmental activist and former presidential candidate Tom Steyer is selling a couple of homes in his portfolio. Last month, he parted with a Lake Tahoe home for $2.8 million, and now he is putting his longtime family home in San Francisco’s exclusive Pacific Heights neighborhood on the market for $11 million,” the Wall Street Journal recently reported.
“I’ve lived in San Francisco for most of my adult life. I love this city and this state, but I’m terrified of where we are at right now,” Mr. Steyer said in an email to the Journal. “Recently, with orange skies, a sun that did not rise, and air we can not breathe, we are faced with the grim reality that we are living the climate crisis.“
Steyer wants everyone to believe he is leaving San Francisco because of a “climate crisis,” and not because the City by the Bay has devolved into total chaos: skyrocketing property crime and auto theft, violent crime is 54% higher than the rest of the state, homelessness is everywhere as is public defecation and urination, drug addiction and rampant related crime is the new normal in San Francisco.
This “climate crisis” Steyer claims is the cause of “orange skies, a sun that did not rise, and air we can not breathe.”
Yet last month, he parted with a Lake Tahoe home for $2.8 million, the WSJ reported. The sky is blue, the sun rises and the air is clean and fresh in Lake Tahoe.
Could it be the dismal California economy that is causing the Steyers to move?
Whether the core reason for Steyer leaving California is the climate crisis or the economy in crisis, it is policies that Steyer supports and ran on in his Presidential bid that are behind these crises.
Steyer’s policies as the Los Angeles Times reported:
100% clean energy and net-zero emissions by 2045,
“justice-centered” policies addressing the vulnerability of communities of color to pollution by fossil fuel companies, and proposed phasing out fossil fuel production.
He supported liberal immigration policies, oversight of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and proposed restricting its forcible deportations and ending work-site raids.
Steyer called for an assault weapons ban, universal gun licensing and a voluntary buyback program for all firearms.
Steyer favored reparations for the descendants of slaves, promising to create a commission to study proposals, and said that as president he would apologize on behalf of the U.S. for the history of slavery.
The New York Times also reported:
He has embraced a “wealth tax” on the superrich.
He has suggested adding new justices to the Supreme Court, a relatively radical idea pressed by some on the left. He wants to take emergency action to address climate change.
We followed Mr. Steyer on his crusade to spend millions to get money out of politics.”
He says his top priorities are breaking the influence of corporations and addressing climate change.
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Mr. Coal Millions wants to bail out of SanFransicko? Is the the smoke or the poop on the sidewalks?
Where’s he moving to — Elko, Nevada? Annoying phony.
You can’t move and escape the “climate” unless you move to the moon. I will chip in a hundred bucks to buy him a one way ticket to the moon 😉
Where is he moving? To a red state? Inquiring minds want to know.
Of course he’ll move to a red state. Liberals only stay in the blue ones when they benefit from the butts they kiss.
What a silly article. He already owns another SF house half a mile away. and he owns another Tahoe house about 200 yards from where he sold that one. Only took me 30 seconds to Google these to find out. Lazy journalism at its finest. Oh and the Tahoe house is in Nevada…
Bye bye Tommy boy. Hopefully you are not moving to a state that you can’t screw up because it is already screwed up like you lefties screwed up California.
Probably moving to Colorado…
That’s where all the San Franfeakshow progressives are fleeing to…
I thought all of these left-wing CA billionaires had plans to retire in New Zealand? So GO, already! Have a nice trip! Buh-bye!
That would be nice and far away but unfortunately they could still continue to fund California’s destruction from there.
Gavin Newsom will sign a bill declaring climate change now includes arson, violent crime, auto theft, homelessness, public defecation/urination, vandalism, drug addiction, rape, mayhem and murder.
Obviously he wasn’t included in the Governor’s new mental health bills
Glad to see him go. Talk about a man with more money than brains. Move out because you and your liberal friends have made this state a shit hole and now you want to move.
Don’t forget Steyer is the head of the Gruesom-lini’s Economic Task Force.
He really is, it’s not a joke.
Perhaps he’ll just be hanging out at his ranch with Kat, harvesting grass fed beef.
https://tomkatranch.org/who-we-are/
They’re just down to Earth restorative ranchers, don’t you know. Simple people.
Oh yes, salt of the earth types. 🙂
WE seriously want to move to get away from the liberal waste of money the politicians want to tax from us. Think of what the billions spent on the bullet train to nowhere could have bought. Dams to store water that runs into the ocean, extral lanes in the central valley to move commerce faster and more efficiently, salt water conversion, Nuclear plants. Imagine if we had that from a governor? California would be made great again.