'Whatever I can to win': Rick Scott spent record $63.6 million of his own money to win a FL Sen Seat

[DonViejo]

'Whatever I can to win': Rick Scott spent record $63.6 million of his own money to win a Florida Senate seat

Ledyard King, USA TODAY Published 7:00 a.m. ET Dec. 10, 2018

WASHINGTON – Florida GOP Gov. Rick Scott spent nearly $63.6 million of his own money to win a U.S. Senate seat in November – a staggering self-funding record for a congressional campaign.

By unseating three-term Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson, Scott also bucked a trend. The vast majority of congressional candidates who dig deep into their own piggy banks to finance their campaigns lose.

From the 1998 election cycle through 2018, 283 candidates for the House and Senate gave or loaned themselves at least $1 million, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign finance data.

Most reached into their own wallets and pocketbooks for the bulk of their money, providing about seven of every 10 dollars they raised for their campaigns, according to the center.

Of those, only 50 won (32 House and 18 Senate), or fewer than one in five.

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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. To anyone in Florida: How frequently did his opponents point out the Medicare fraud

that got him this rich? Every sentence? Every minute? That would surely be the obvious way to have stopped this guy. I mean, USA Today doesn'ty mention it once in the article, so it's obviously not as automatically connected with him as it should be. It not as if this was really 'his' money he used.