Thomas Steyer
Founder, Beneficial State Bank
Founder, Beneficial State Bank
Plans to accelerate clean-energy build-out; would break up utility monopolies and oppose offshore drilling.
Supports abortion rights and reproductive freedom.
Pledges to cut electricity bills, close corporate tax loopholes, and support large-scale climate and housing investments.
Supports background checks in gun safety laws.
Supports free preschool and community college, calls for top-ten public school funding, and supported universal free school lunch.
Supports workers’ right to organize.
Supported ending mass incarceration and backed closing private prisons in 2020; maintains policies to avoid profiting from private prisons.
Supports banning corporate PAC money and calls for reducing corporate influence in Sacramento.
Plans to build 1 million homes, streamline housing permitting rules, and enforce local housing obligations.
Supports school meals and child-focused support programs, and backs homelessness-related household stability services.
Opposes federal immigration enforcement spending.
Supports state single-payer health care.
Supports grid upgrades and resilient infrastructure, and backs building housing near transit.
Pledges to close corporate tax loopholes, supports taxes on AI firms, and backs a one-time billionaire wealth tax in principle.
Supports workers’ right to organize.
Supporters praise a candidate they see as independent from corporate power and focused on lowering costs for working families. Across the endorsements, the strongest themes are tackling affordability, holding polluters and corporations accountable, protecting public schools and communities, and advancing fairness on climate, health care, and justice.
I am proud to have been Tom Steyer's first endorser, breaking from the old-school establishment. ... Tom will be an independent voice, taking on special interests and lowering costs.
Today our democratically elected board voted to recommend Tom Steyer in California's 2026 gubernatorial primary. ... We deserve a Governor who has the courage to hold corporations accountable, tackle the affordability crisis, and ensure California students and communities have access to quality public schools. — David Goldberg, CTA President
I know Tom's going to be able to deliver.