Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer announces run for California governor

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : And in 2016, Steyer was a major backer of Proposition 56, which raised California's tobacco tax by $2 per pack and directed those funds to health care, Medi-Cal and tobacco-use prevention programs.
28% : Two years later, Steyer was the lead sponsor of Proposition 39, to close a corporate tax loophole for out-of-state companies, which in turn provided funding for energy-efficiency upgrades in schools.

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