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...
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