Background
Weiner is the son of Michael Weiner, better known as conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage, and Janet Weiner.
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Weiner is the son of Michael Weiner, better known as conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage, and Janet Weiner.
Weiner graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California and graduated from San Diego State University with a bachelor"s degree in political science.
He organized events for the Paul Revere Society and worked as a travel consultant. He is the creator of the Rockstar energy drink. In 2014, he entered the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans at position 249, with an estimated worth of two and a half billion dollars.
With his father, he co-founded the Paul Revere Society.
In 1998, he ran as a Republican for the 6th district seat in the California State Assembly, receiving an endorsement from the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People branch in Oakland, California. Among his campaign issues included advocacy for Proposition 227, the ballot initiative eliminating bilingual education in public schools, and protection of old-growth forests.
Receiving 13.3% of the vote, Weiner lost to incumbent Democrat Kerry Mazzoni. After he lost the election, election posters depicting him were vandalized in an anti-Semitic manner.
In 2009, Weiner donated $25,000 to the California gubernatorial campaign of Gavin Newsom, who was the Democratic mayor of San Francisco.
Newsom returned the donation and Weiner gave it to charity. Weiner has also engaged in the real estate industry by buying and selling homes. In 2006, he bought the West Hollywood home of basketball player Carlos Boozer for $10 million.
In 2008, he listed his home there for under $3 million (originally nearly $15 million based on replacement costs) and sold it for $8 million in 2009.
Weiner is single and lives in Delray Beach, Florida.