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Trump’s big money inaugural donors are fleeing the president — and donating to Democrats: report
Written by Tom Boggioni / Raw Story January 13, 2020
According to a report in the Daily Beast, major donors who contributed to Donald Trump’s inauguration not only want no part of the president now, but are also contributing to possible Democratic presidential contenders.
The report starts off by noting, “15 such donors who collectively gave more than $700,000 to Trump’s inaugural committee but who have since contributed to the presidential campaigns of Democratic candidates including Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, Tulsi Gabbard, Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bennet, John Hickenlooper, Eric Swalwell, and John Delaney.”
While many wealthy political campaign contributors are known to give money to both Democrats and Republicans as a way of hedging their bets and keeping the door open for access, many of the Trump donors are rock-ribbed Republicans who have tired of the president.
According to Pritzker, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, her change of heart stemmed from the administration’s stance on trans rights.
“I’ve grown frustrated as I watch this Republican administration push to ban transgender military service. Anti-transgender platforms are causing me to evaluate my party support,” Pritzker wrote in a Washington Post op-ed. “I have hoped the Republican Party would reform from within and end its assault on the LGBTQ community. Yet, the party continues to champion policies that marginalize me out of existence, define me as an eccentric character and persecute me for using the public restrooms that correspond to my gender identity.”
The report notes that Pritzker has previously not only contributed to Trump , but also to Republicans Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, and John Kasich.
“It had only been a couple years since [Jennifer] Pritzker, the world’s only known trans billionaire and a Republican mega-donor, had chipped in a whopping $250,000 to President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee,” the report states. “But three months after publicly objecting to the GOP’s stance on trans issues, she gave $1,000 to Democrat Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign.”
“Chrysa Tsakopoulos Demos, the chief executive of California land development company AKT Investments, is a longtime Republican donor who backed Sen. Ted Cruz’s bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. She donated $5,000 to the Trump inaugural, and continued donating to Republicans through 2018, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and Great America Committee, Vice President Mike Pence’s political group,” the G Beast report, before adding, “But Demos’ only federal political contribution so far in the 2020 cycle is the $2,800 she donated last year to Biden’s presidential campaign.”
The report states that Greg Maffei, the chief executive of the Colorado-based media company Liberty Media, was a “$250,000 donor to the Trump inaugural who is backing Democrats in 2020.”
“This time around, though, Maffei has supported the two Democratic presidential candidates from his home state. In March 2019, he gave the per-election maximum of $2,800 to Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor,” the Beast reports. “Two months later, after a max-out donation to Republican Sen. Cory Gardner, Maffei donated $100,000 to a super PAC supporting Hickenlooper. After Hickenlooper withdrew from the race, Maffei donated the legal maximum to Bennet’s presidential campaign.”
You can read about more high dollar contributors bailing on Trump here.
breakthrough Institute has been a leading "think tank" getting around being called science deniers by claiming concern while delaying actions on climate.
Armed with a degree in Latin American studies and confidence borne of inherited family wealth, the Breakthrough Institute’s Rachel Pritzker takes to the Ted Talk stage to promote ... nuclear energy
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Rachel Pritzker is founder and president of the Pritzker Innovation Fund, which supports the development and advancement of paradigm-shifting ideas which harness the power of energy to address the world's most wicked problems.
Rachel currently chairs the Advisory Board of the Breakthrough Institute and is a board member and Co-Chair of the Clean Energy Program at Third Way. She serves on the board of the Center for Global Development and the Advisory Boards of Environmental Progress and the Nuclear Innovation Alliance. She is also a member of The Philanthropy Workshop and serves on the board of the Palm Center. Rachel previously served as a founding board member of the Democracy Alliance and as a founding board member of Media Matters for America.
Experience
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Pritzker Innovation Fund
2004 – Present (12 years)
The Pritzker Innovation Fund supports new policy approaches that break through partisan gridlock by offering workable solutions to a range of wicked 21st century problems, with a specific focus on energy innovation, energy access and conservation. We collaborate with other foundations and funders to support the development and advancement of an eco-modernist paradigm.
Volunteer Experience & Causes
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Board Member
Center for Global Development
November 2015 – Present (9 months)
The Center for Global Development is an independent, nonprofit policy research organization that is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and to making globalization work for the poor. Through a combination of research and strategic outreach, the Center actively engages policymakers and the public to influence the policies of the United States, other rich countries, and such institutions as the World Bank, the IMF, and the World Trade Organization to improve the economic and social development prospects in poor countries.
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Chair, Advisory Board
The Breakthrough Institute
2011 – Present (5 years)
The Breakthrough Institute is a paradigm-shifting think tank committed to modernizing liberal thought for the 21st century. Breakthrough's mission is to accelerate the transition to a future where all the world's inhabitants can enjoy secure, free, and prosperous lives on an ecologically vibrant planet.
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Board Member and Co-Chair of Energy Program
Third Way
2012 – Present (4 years)
Third Way is a multi-issue think tank that answers America’s challenges with modern ideas. The clean energy program aims to advance a sustained, compelling, and effective case to the policymaker and influencer communities for long-term federal action to mitigate climate change by scaling clean energy innovation.
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The Palm Center
2013 – Present (3 years)
The Palm Center, a research initiative of San Francisco State University's Department of Political Science, is a research institute that produces scholarship designed to enhance the quality of public dialogue about critical and controversial policy issues, such as gender and sexuality in the military.
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Environmental Progress
May 2016 – Present (3 months)Environment
Environmental Progress was founded to address the two most serious threats to environmental progress: continued dependence on wood & dung in poor countries, and climate change. The mission of EP is to build a movement of concerned citizens, scientists and conservationists to advocate ethical and practical energy solutions for nature & people.
Publications
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November 2013
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
March 2014
Meeting the energy demands of modern society without destroying the planet will require a new approach to climate and energy issues.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
December 2014
An alternate paradigm for climate and energy.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
March 2015
Energy is central to many causes that funders care about, but it is one of the most underappreciated issues in 21st-century philanthropy.
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Stanford Social Innovation Review
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Confronting the risks and rewards of the world’s largest low-carbon energy source. -
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Rachel Pritzker Hunter, the daughter of Forbes 400 member Linda Pritzker, came in 9th on the big giver list. Hunter is one of only two Democratic donors on the top 10; Penny Pritzker, another member of the billionaire Pritzker clan, served as the national finance chairwoman of the Obama campaign in 2008 but didn’t make the top 10 list for 2009-2010.
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In the fall of 2004, Breakthrough co-founders, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, triggered a firestorm of controversy with their essay, "The Death of Environmentalism." In it they argued that the politics that dealt with acid rain and smog can't deal with global warming. Society has changed, and our politics have not kept up. Environmentalism must die, they concluded, so that something new can be born.
The essay received front-page coverage in *The New York Times*, *The Economist,* *Salon*, and publications around the world. The essay can be downloaded by clicking here.
In 2011, Nordhaus and Shellenberger revisited the essay with a major speech at Yale University on"The Long Death of Environmentalism."
Reactions and Reviews
“When environmentalists are writing tracts like "The Death of Environmentalism," you know the movement is in deep trouble. That essay by two young environmentalists has been whirling around the Internet since last fall, provoking a civil war among tree-huggers for its assertion that 'modern environmentalism, with all of its unexamined assumptions, outdated concepts and exhausted strategies, must die so that something new can live.' Sad to say, the authors, Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, are right."
— Nicholas Kristof, "I Have a Nightmare," *The New York Times*
“Influential.”
— Columbia Journalism Review, May 2006 / June 2006
“The bad boys of American environmentalism made their case this morning, and they made it well. By the time Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus had finished presenting the data that led to their famous 'Death of Environmentalism' paper, most of the large crowd gathered for the "What Works?" conference here in Vermont were convinced that they had seen where the future lay for the climate-change movement — or at the very least, where it didn't…. There's something almost exhilarating in knowing how bad a situation really is. Spared the false hope that maybe things will get better on their own, at least you have permission to think expansively about what to do differently.”
— Bill McKibben, Grist.org, January 26, 2005
“Anyone who is interested in the future of environmentalism… must read this…”
— Gregg Easterbrook, author ofThe Progress Paradox
“’The environmental movement's foundational concepts, its method for framing legislative proposals, and its very institutions are outmoded. Today environmentalism is just another special interest.’ Those damning words come not from any industry lobby or right-wing think-tank. They are drawn from ‘The Death of Environmentalism’, an influential essay published recently by two greens with impeccable credentials. They claim that environmental groups are politically adrift and dreadfully out of touch. They are right.”
— The Economist magazine, April 23, 2005
“It’s a heartfelt, sweeping, even anguished J'accuse, urging a dark night of the soul for environmentalists, challenging them to reckon with both how bad and how urgent their predicament really is.” — Katharine Mieszkowski, Salon.com
“Almost a year later, I am still periodically sent a copy, along with a breathless ‘Have you read this?’ note. Not only did I read it, I point out; I tried to call attention to it outside the environmental community back in March, predicting that ‘it may be the most powerful and lasting of the very many ‘What’s wrong with the left?’ documents of the George W. Bush era.’”
— Mark Schmitt, American Prospect, October 2005
“These young environmentalists are unafraid to answer a question many have been reluctant to ask: Why has the environmental movement failed to win American hearts and change American habits? Understanding the challenge as a "culture war" instead of an alarmist public education campaign shows that Shellenberger and Nordhaus get it. They understand that effective environmentalism requires vision and values, not alarmism and sentimentalist nature-love.”
— Jane Eisner, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 8, 2005
“Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, recently declared "the death of environmentalism," generating quite a buzz… Whether or not environmentalism is dead, dying, or in some kind of undead zombie state, new voices within the environmental and conservation movements are arguing for a wholly new kind of movement that entails recovering values of another, more conservative America. They point to a reinvention of environmentalism which might garner the support of both Red and Blue America.”
— G. Tracy Mehan III, National Review, June 9, 2005
“Greens are buzzing: They're defending old strategies, reaching out to new partners, challenging big-budget fundraising, questioning the wisdom of lawsuits--and breathing life into the movement. We think it's more rallying cry than obituary, but see for yourself; read the paper and join the fray at www.backpacker.com/greendebate. You don't have to like this idea--or even believe it--to recognize its power.”
— Backpacker Magazine in naming “The Death of Environmentalism” the “Best Idea of 2005”
“There was "The Death of Environmentalism" with its bold declarations: Environmentalism had defined itself as a special interest, its message was too negative, and it presented narrow technical solutions instead of an inspiring vision tied to values voters hold dear. Commentators quickly pointed out that all these criticisms could just as easily be leveled at other segments of the left. What was the movement besides a collection of special-interest campaigns? Just like that, the paper became a mirror reflecting back the fears of a disenfranchised movement.”
— Eliza Strickland, East Bay Express, November 2, 2005
“Several months ago, two bright U.S. activists set tongues wagging with a testy essay called The Death of Environmentalism. The passionate missive accused environmentalists of digging themselves into special-interest holes where technical policy fixes ruled the day. It also blasted tree-huggers for completely blowing the climate-change debate by asking "not what we can do for non-environmental constituencies but what non-environmental constituencies can do for environmentalists." Enviros, in short, had failed to break out of their unique, university-educated ghettos with a hopeful message that engaged desperate housewives, let alone frantic soccer moms. The essay hammered home many truths and may mark an important turning point for greens.”
— Andrew Nikiforuk, Globe and Mail
“Our cover story this issue was inspired by a paper that began circulating in environmental circles back in September entitled "The Death Of Environmentalism?" It laments the increasing lack of public, political and media attention to environmental issues, especially at a time when some very crucial ones, like global warming, need urgent action. "Death" has been both praised and attacked by green leaders of all stripes, and has even gotten some mainstream media play. It has forced some useful introspection. Ben Franklin once said, "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
— Doug Moss, Earth Action, May 2005
"Environmentalists should reduce their over-reliance on apocalyptic scenarios "that tend to create feelings of helplessness and isolation among would-be supporters," Shellenberger advises. "Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech is famous because it put forward an inspiring, positive vision that carried a critique of the current moment within it. Imagine how history would have turned out had King given an 'I Have a Nightmare' speech instead.” Indeed, the key to a revitalized environmental movement will be the application of a belief King often expressed: Warnings of impending catastrophe, along with shame, protests and lawsuits, all have a role to play, but any movement will fail if it cannot paint an intensely attractive vision of the future, one that appeals to the mind and to the spirit."
— Richard Louv, The Oregonian, March 28, 2005
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Rachel Pritzker, President & Founder
Rachel Pritzker is President and Founder of the Pritzker Innovation Fund. Rachel is Chair of the Advisory Board of the Breakthrough Institute, a pioneering research organization that is changing how people think about energy and the environment, and is a board member and co-chair of the Energy Program at Third Way, a multi-issue think tank that answers America’s challenges with modern ideas. Rachel also serves on the board of Environmental Progress, a policy and research organization building a movement to advocate for ethical and practical energy solutions for people and nature, and the board of the Center for Global Development, a “think-and-do-tank” that works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community. Additionally, she serves on the advisory committee of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, which assembles stakeholders and develops policies to advance nuclear energy innovation. Rachel is a co-author of An Ecomodernist Manifesto, which outlines a powerful alternative approach to climate mitigation and human development. Her TEDxBeaconStreet Talk,
, illuminates a path to protecting the environment while moving billions of people out of poverty. Rachel is a member of The Philanthropy Workshop and serves on the board of the Palm Center, a research institute that produces scholarship designed to enhance the quality of public dialogue about critical and controversial policy issues, such as gender and sexuality in the military. She previously served as a founding board member of Media Matters for America and a founding board member of the Democracy Alliance, a partnership of business and philanthropic leaders committed to a stronger democracy by supporting progressive organizations. Rachel attended Brown University, where she majored in Latin American studies. A clinical nutritionist by training, she also co-founded the nation’s first accredited master’s degree program in botanical medicine.
Roland Pritzker, Chairman
Roland Pritzker is Chairman of the Pritzker Innovation Fund. A man of diverse interests, Roland is an entrepreneur, musician, race car driver, private equity investor, and philanthropist. He plays bass with Blind Dog Smokin’, a Grammy-nominated funk/blues band that he has been with since 2000. Roland is the co-founder of ROTEK Racing, a race team in Germany through which he has vied in numerous endurance competitions. Roland is an experienced venture and private equity investor.He is part-owner of Essential Living Foods, a distributor of organic and raw foods sourced from Central and South America.He started and hosts the annual Snowy Range Music Festival, a three-day music festival held over Labor Day weekend in Laramie, Wyoming. Roland studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Colorado and sustainable business at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.
Mike Berkowitz, Senior Advisor
Mike Berkowitz is a Senior Advisor to the Pritzker Innovation Fund. Mike is Co-Founder & Principal at Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, a strategy firm that partners with many of the world’s most passionate and daring changemakers to reimagine, expand, and realize their social impact. Mike is a 21/64-certified philanthropy consultant and has counseled numerous individual donors, family foundations, and institutional foundations on their philanthropic giving. He has also advised dozens of nonprofit institutions on effective development strategy, community engagement strategy, strategic planning, and impact evaluation. Mike formerly served as a lead consultant to the Democracy Alliance, a partnership of the nation’s top progressive philanthropists. He has a B.A. in History, magna cum laude, from Brown University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
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Berkeley Earth
Berkeley Earth is a private non-profit research organization devoted to analysis of controversial environmental issues, with a commitment to scientific objectivity.
The Breakthrough Institute
The Breakthrough Institute is a paradigm-shifting think tank committed to modernizing environmentalism for the 21st century. Breakthrough's mission is to accelerate the transition to a future where all the world's inhabitants can enjoy secure, free, and prosperous lives on an ecologically-vibrant planet.
Center for Clean Energy Innovation
The Center for Clean Energy Innovation is a Washington, DC-based think tank dedicated to designing, advocating, and advancing cutting-edge energy innovation policies to address global climate change, increase economic growth, and provide universal energy access.
Center for Global Development
The Center for Global Development works to reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community to make the world a more prosperous, just, and safe place for us all.
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Clean Air Task Force works to help safeguard against the worst impacts of climate change by catalyzing the rapid global development and deployment of low carbon energy and other climate-protecting technologies through research and analysis, public advocacy leadership, and partnership with the private sector.
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Human Arts Association, in support of Pandora’s Promise
Pandora's Promise is a feature-length documentary that explores how and why nuclear power, mankind's most feared and controversial technological discovery, is now passionately embraced by many of those who once led the charge against it.
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Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
ITIF is a think tank whose mission is to formulate and promote public policies to advance technological innovation and productivity internationally, in Washington, and in the states.
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Nuclear Innovation Alliance
The Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) assembles companies, investors, experts, and stakeholders to advance nuclear energy innovation and enable innovative reactor commercialization through favorable energy policy and funding. The NIA also researches, develops and advocates policies that enable the efficient licensing and timely early-stage demonstration of advanced reactor technologies.
ONE Campaign
ONE is an international campaigning and advocacy organization of more than 6 million people taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. As part of its work, ONE aims to address the lack of access to electricity and modern energy sources that profoundly limits economic development, constrains people's life chances and traps millions in extreme poverty.
Program Related Investment Makers for Energy (PRIME)
PRIME is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate the commercial deployment of technologies that reduce global greenhouse emissions.
Third Way
Third Way is a multi-issue think tank that answers America's challenges with modern ideas. Its Clean Energy Program aims to advance the case for long-term federal action to scale clean energy innovation.
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