Tuesday, June 09, 2015

GOP Donor To Spend $175 Million To Make Republicans Care About Global Warming

A major Republican donor is taking a page out of liberal billionaire Tom Steyer’s book and joining with environmental activists to convince GOP lawmakers to take global warming seriously. Jay Faison, a North Carolina businessman, made a fortune selling his company SnapAV. Now he plans on using that fortune to change how Republicans talk about global warming. Faison has joined with left-wing environmentalists to start a nonprofit to promote “market-based” solutions to global warming. “I always felt a little alone out there as a Republican, and so I started ClearPath to create a dialogue around this in a way that hadn’t been done before and sort of be part of the solution,” Faison told Politico. “We think that there are real Republican solutions to the problem.” Faison will unveil a $40 million campaign Tuesday “through 2016 to persuade moderates and conservatives to join the fight against climate change,” according to Politico. He is also spending $10 million to create a campaigning arm similar to President Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action or Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS. “There’s a lot of center-right Republicans that feel like they don’t have a voice in this issue, and surveys would say they’re eager to share this information to bring other people along with them,” Faison said. “Even in small percentages, that’s in the millions.” In total, Politico reports Faison is planning on pumping $175 million into creating a GOP that wants to impose policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...more

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