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Steyer spent $140,000 a day on [[Facebook]] advertising for $1 donations trying to meet the 130,000 donor threshold to be included in Democratic debates. Speaking at the 2019 DNC Summer Meeting, Steyer said, "We can’t be chasing corporate money. … We should only be chasing people’s votes. As president, I would insist that the DNC not take one single penny from any corporation.”<ref>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/30/tom_steyers_12_million_failure_to_launch__141136.html</ref>
Steyer spent $140,000 a day on [[Facebook]] advertising for $1 donations trying to meet the 130,000 donor threshold to be included in Democratic debates. Speaking at the 2019 DNC Summer Meeting, Steyer said, "We can’t be chasing corporate money. … We should only be chasing people’s votes. As president, I would insist that the DNC not take one single penny from any corporation.”<ref>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/08/30/tom_steyers_12_million_failure_to_launch__141136.html</ref>
Steyer is one of the few Americans directly exposed in the 2016 [[Panama Papers]] scandal, the leaking of 11.5 million documents that illustrate how wealthy individuals keep personal financial information private and engage in fraud and political corruption.<ref>http://leftexposed.org/2018/01/tom-steyer/</ref>
Steyer's hedge fund has a history of putting money in overseas tax havens to avoid paying taxes.
Steyer's hedge fund has a history of putting money in overseas tax havens to avoid paying taxes.