Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor

[applegrove]

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Peter Thiel considering bid for California governor

By ALEX ISENSTADT at Politico

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/peter-thiel-california-governor-bid-233632

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Peter Thiel, the Silicon Valley billionaire and outspoken Donald Trump supporter, is considering a 2018 bid for California governor, according to three Republicans familiar with his thinking.

Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, has been discussing a prospective bid with a small circle of advisers, including Rob Morrow, who has emerged as his political consigliere.

Morrow has worked at Clarium Capital, the San Francisco-based investment management firm and hedge fund that Thiel started.

Those who have been in touch with the 49-year-old entrepreneur are skeptical that he’ll enter the race. He is a deeply private figure, and California is unfriendly territory for a Republican – particularly a pro-Trump one. The president-elect won just over 30 percent of the vote there.


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Maybe it is to give Gavin Newsom some bruises nationally to hurt him in the Presidential race in 2020. I could see all the 'great' GOP political minds participating. See more in the threads below.

[JI7]

1. he has no chance

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Gavin Newsom or Antonio Villaraigosa will beat him like a drum.

Either one of them will strip the bark off him and make Donald Drumpf his running mate.

[applegrove]

3. The GOP is going to use Thiel to attack and ruin

Gavin Newsom. They are afraid of Gavin because he is dyslexic and reads crowds brilliantly and communicates with crowds like dyslexics do: both Bushes, Reagan, Kennedy, Paul Wellstone, Trump, Eleanor Roosevelt (she was her husbands eyes and ears), Churchill and Woodrow Wilson are/were all dyslexic.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. Thiel can stand on his head. He isn't beating Newsom or Villaraigosa

[applegrove]

9. But the GOP want to stop Newsom from running for President.

They will attack him in California. I bet all the GOP 'great' political minds will be involved. That way they can wound Newsom or get him to say things that would hurt in him the Presidential race in 2020, as he runs for Governor of California. Of course he would win the governorship and Thiel would lose. But could it be used by the GOP to clip Newsom's wings nationally.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. I would be satisfied with him or Villaraigosa.

I am not going to get sucked into saying anything bad about either one.

[onecaliberal]

5. There is no chance for that asshat here. We won't play with kid gloves.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. We will destroy him...

[onecaliberal]

8. No question.

[Raine]

7. "Sacrificial lamb" any rethug will get slaughtered here in California. nt

[dalton99a]

10. Proceed, asshole

[KamaAina]

11. Hasn't he moved to that artificial island offshore yet?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Lots of luck loser

[Warren DeMontague]

14. I think Newsom will be a shoo-in, personally.

But Thiel definitely skews towards the libertarian side of the GOP- supports things like pot legalization, which is wildly popular on the West Coast.

Says something about the failure of authoritarians to get much traction on that side of the country.

[NBachers]

15. Join the ranks of Meg Whitman and the once-ever-so-hopeful Darrell Issa

Go to 7:24 to watch Issa blubbering as his treachery catches up with him.

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[stopbush]

16. O, for fuck's sake. Idiot.

Love to see that asshole get defeated.

[WhiteTara]

17. Californians have a good sense of what is good for the state.

The boobengroper would not have been elected without electronic voting machines in Riverside county. Look out my friends in CA!

[erpowers]

18. Going To Get His Butt Kicked

I might be wrong, but I think he is going to get his butt kicked if he tries to run.