TakePart: Billionaire former hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer is spending $50 million of his own money to make climate change a defining issue in the 2014 midterm elections. That, according to New York Times columnist David Brooks, is just "stupid."
The superrich San Francisco environmental activist could have spent the money "paying for kids to go to college," wrote Brooks on Oct. 10. "Instead he has spent that much money this year further enriching the people who own TV stations. What a waste."
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