Friend,

Tom Steyer entering the Democratic primary for California Governor tells you everything about the state of that party.

The belief that vast fortunes can turn into moral virtue ignores how those fortunes came into being.

Every billionaire ascends through structures built to concentrate power, extract value, and place human lives under the boot of capital.

There is no benevolence in that process.

Steyer, a former hedge fund magnate, became wealthy through the same structures that drove the cost of living through the roof, widened the wealth gap, and pushed entire communities into poverty in our state.

He now presents himself as a climate champion while standing on money amassed during an era defined by rising emissions, scorched forests, poisoned air, and a climate crisis created by industries that enriched people like him.

The Democratic supermajority keeps turning to billionaires because it has fused its identity to the donor class and lost its grounding in the lives of ordinary people.

Leadership shaped by immense wealth will always protect the structures that produced that wealth.

Butch Ware is running because California deserves a movement that understands the roots of these crises, and how to address them as the Governor of our state.

A movement led by working people, renters, teachers, nurses, farmworkers, and organizers who have carried the burden while elites delivered speeches and photo ops.

Our campaign comes from the study of power, the history of resistance, and the knowledge that real change grows from collective action rather than billionaire intervention.

The Green Party offers a path for Californians who refuse to let the obscenely wealthy shape our future any longer.

• A path for people who want public resources directed toward housing, healthcare, clean energy, and community survival instead of investor returns.

• A path for those who reject the idea that elites can purchase absolution through philanthropy or campaign branding.

In Solidarity,

Jason Call
Campaign Manager

Butch Ware for Governor

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