As the founder and longtime head of Farallon Capital, Tom Steyer oversaw billions in coal, oil, gas, pipeline, and private-prison investments, writes columnist Jon Fleischman. AP

Tom Steyer hopes you forgot.

He wants to be California’s next governor , and he’s counting on voters to overlook how he made the fortune he now uses to lecture them.

Of course he’s running. In California political circles, everyone assumed he’d jump in sooner or later.

But the real story isn’t his entry into the race — it’s the decades he spent helping create the affordability crisis he now promises to fix.

You wouldn’t know that from the glowing headline in my hometown paper: “Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer announces run for California governor.”

Not one mention of how he actually made his mon

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