BREAKING: Special Interests Spend Record $51 Million to Boost Xavier Becerra and Attack Steyer

Through campaigns supporting Becerra and attacking Steyer, corporations are trying to keep their profits, and Californians’ prices, sky high 

CALIFORNIA — Pop the champagne, because Xavier Becerra just broke the record for the amount of special interest spending in a California state race at $51 million – including money spent attacking Tom Steyer. The final record breaking donation came from the Chamber of Commerce, funded by Meta, Realtors, and other corporate interests. 

What can $51 million buy you? It turns out, a protection plan for Big Pharma, monopolies, polluters, and billionaires. 

Becerra has sold out to: 

• The healthcare industry, flip flopping on single payer;
• Chevron and Big Oil, promising to restart drilling in California;
• Private ambulance companies and Big Pharma to rip patients off;
• Big Tech, taking their money even as Meta laid of 8,000 workers; 
• Billionaires, refusing to vote for the state’s billionaire’s tax. 

“Becerra is bought and paid for. Meta, Chevron, and the Realtors Association gave Becerra millions, and, in exchange, he promised to protect their profits. Becerra is putting corporations over Californians,” said Steyer for Governor spokesperson Danni Wang. “Big Oil, PG&E, insurance lobbyists, and corporate landlords are all spending to stop Tom Steyer because they know he’s not afraid to take them on. Tom will always put working Californians first.”

Meanwhile, Tom Steyer has pledged to lower costs for working Californians by closing a corporate tax loophole benefitting billionaires and commercial property owners, breaking up utility monopolies, and imposing a windfall tax on Big Oil companies that are price-gouging Californians at the pump. 

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