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File under: Tiny minds discuss people.... America Rising targets Steyer By Gabriel Debenedetti 04/29/16 06:00 AM EDT Democratic mega-donor Tom Steyer and other leading environmentalists like Bill McKibben are the targets of an expensive new negative campaign from America Rising Squared, the 501c4 arm of Republican opposition research group America Rising. Launched Friday, the push will include a deployment of trackers with video cameras to follow the activists, a significant effort to research them and their work, a six-figure digital ad campaign focused on social media, and a website — corenews.org — that will serve as a hub for the group’s content. While this scale of investment is common in campaigns, it is rare for an outside group to target a donor or activist with such a sustained drive, especially in the middle of pitched presidential primaries. The announcement comes just days after Steyer and his NextGen Climate Action super PAC launched a $25 million effort to mobilize youth voters in swing states. Steyer has already spent $17 million during this campaign cycle, bringing his investment to $42 million in spending and commitments. The nation’s largest individual donor in the 2014 election cycle, at $74 million total, Steyer has said he is likely to spend even more in the 2016 cycle. “Tom Steyer made a fortune investing in oil and coal, and now he’s dumping an unprecedented amount of money into political causes which promise to increase the value of his latest investments in ‘green energy,’” said America Rising Squared Executive Director Brian Rogers in a statement. “America Rising Squared will hold Steyer and the Environmentalist Left accountable for their epic hypocrisy and extreme positions which threaten America’s future prosperity." The first video of the campaign zeroes in on Steyer, but also includes both Democratic presidential candidates. It features front-runner Hillary Clinton saying, “We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” — a line she said during a town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, last month within the context of investing in clean energy jobs. And it also includes Bernie Sanders insisting, “Climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism." While Steyer hosted one of Clinton’s first campaign fundraisers last spring, he has not publicly sided with either candidate. Read more: politico.com