Contributor: Tom Steyer’s stumble shows the perils facing self-funded candidates
With Tom Steyer all but eliminated from California’s top-two gubernatorial runoff in November, he joins a long conga line of beaucoup-bucks, self-funding candidates who tried to buy their way into elected office in our state and failed miserably. This includes Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, Al Checchi and Michael Huffington. Whitman, a former CEO of eBay, … Read more