The Brit Billionaire Funding Democrat GOTV in 19 States
The Environmental Voter Project, funded by British financier Jeremy Grantham, has invested in get-out-the-vote efforts in swing states.
On the day before Election Day 2024, the Environmental Voter Project posted on X/Twitter, boasting that they “mobilized 4.8 million 1st-time climate voters” and got 561,728 to vote.
It turns out the organization gets its money from a wealthy British financier named Jeremy Grantham.
According to nonprofit tracker Influence Watch, Jeremy Grantham and his wife Hannelore founded the Grantham Environmental Trust in 2005, as one organization within the wider Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment.
The organizations exist to provide grants to radical environmental groups and other “progressive” causes.
The Environmental Voter Project tripled its budget in 2018, with a cash injection from their benefactor of about $1.5 million. On their website, they boast:
The Environmental Voter Project identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters.
We estimate that over 8 million environmentalists did not vote in the 2020 presidential election and over 13 million skipped the 2022 midterms. We are a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on a simple, high-leverage solution to this problem: with an 8-year track record of success, we are accurately identifying these non-voting environmentalists and efficiently converting them into a critical mass of consistent voters that will soon be too big for politicians to ignore.
Their methodology relies largely on buzzwords, but also actionable data. They “leverage data analytics” and “predictive modeling” to canvass low-propensity voters on the left with messages crafted with “the latest behavioral science.”
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“An NRA-Style Army of Super Voters”
Starting in 2018, the Environmental Voter Project played a role in getting out the vote among roughly 60,000 voters in six states: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, Nevada and Pennsylvania. They targeted voters who care about the environment but seldom vote. The Huffington Post quoted their president, Nathaniel Stinnett, who said they wanted to build an organization modeled after the National Rifle Association (NRA). “We’re not an election-winning organization, we’re an electorate-changing organization,” Stinnett told HuffPo. “We want them to vote as often as NRA members do. Environmental voters have the potential to overwhelm the electorate.”
Since that time, the group has rapidly expanded, with its budget also rapidly expanding—thanks to its communist billionaire in the background. In 2020, they doubled the number of states for their GOTV campaigns to Arizona, Virginia, New Mexico, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Maine.
This year, they added another seven states: Texas, New York, Alaska, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and New Mexico.
Another Billionaire Who Went Communist After Getting Rich
Bankrolling this growth across the past several election cycles is the British financier, Jeremy Grantham. Grantham’s career arc mimics that of the other recognizable radical leftist billionaires funding “progressive,” anti-American causes. Like George Soros, Tom Steyer, and other such benefactors of the professional Left, Grantham made a huge fortune using the capitalist system he now fights to dismantle.
Grantham has signed on to several debunked environmental theories like peak oil, Malthusian population dynamics, and global warming. He has also become an avowed Marxist. According to Influence Watch:
Grantham has stated that perhaps Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were correct in their analysis of capitalism saying, “globalization would offer capitalists more rope to hang themselves with rope bought from briskly competing capitalists, eager till the end for a good deal.” Grantham continued that the “loss of collective ability to feed ourselves, through erosion and fertilizer depletion – has received little or no attention.”
Grantham also loves quoting nineteenth century population control advocate Thomas Malthus, even comparing himself favorably to him:
Jeremy Grantham, the principal funder of the Grantham Foundation, is a supporter of population control, having suggested the critical population limit of the earth at 10 billion. In an interview with the Financial Times, Grantham compared himself to the nineteenth century economist Thomas Malthus by stating, “X marks spot where Malthus wrote his defining work. Y marks my entry into the world. What a surge in population has occurred since then! Such compound growth cannot continue with finite resources.”
He went so far in 2019 as to say, “I have a very low opinion of capitalism in 2019. We have reached a new low. Basically, the capitalist beast is out of control, and it doesn’t owe any responsibility to the society it lives in, the town, the state or country even.”
Grantham Is the Soros You Never Heard Of
Similarly to George Soros, Jeremy Grantham made gobs of money by taking advantage of free markets—and “fossil fuel” energy investments. His bio on the website for the wealth management firm he founded says it all:
Mr. Grantham co-founded GMO in 1977 and is a member of GMO’s Asset Allocation team, serving as the firm’s long-term investment strategist. He is the Chairman of the GMO Board of Directors, a partner of the firm, and has also served on the investment boards of several non-profit organizations. Prior to GMO’s founding, Mr. Grantham was co-founder of Batterymarch Financial Management in 1969 where he recommended commercial indexing in 1971, one of several claims to being first. He began his investment career as an economist with Royal Dutch Shell. Mr. Grantham earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Sheffield (U.K.) and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, holds a CBE from the UK and is a recipient of the Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy.
In another interview in 2018, Grantham calls for a command economy:
Despite making his name as a perceptive capitalist, he counts the environment among challenges a free market cannot solve.
“You have absolutely got to have collective effort imposed by government regulation.
“[Capitalism] cannot deal with tragedies of the commons—the oceans, the soil, the air. If you leave a corporation free, it will pollute to save money, even if they know it is disastrous. Because they argue: well, if I do not, someone else will.”
After accumulating their wealth, these kinds of billionaires seem all to eager to shut the door behind them, dismantling the system that afforded them so much wealth so that nobody else can become as wealthy as they did.
What the Future Holds
The Environmental Voter Project has undergone rapid expansion in its first decade of existence. Under the “laser focus” of its president, Nathaniel Stinnett, and with the largesse of the Grantham fortune fueling it, this group will undoubtedly try to expand its influence even more in its second decade. That largesse comes from the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the environment, which reported assets north of $400 million as of 2020.
If they succeed in creating their “army of super voters,” they could influence the elections in all fifty states.
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