Meg Whitman breaks spending record

[Liberal_in_LA]

Whitman breaks record
By:
CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser


(CNN)– Meg Whitman's gone where no other California gubernatorial candidate has gone before.

According to new campaign finance records filed Tuesday, Whitman has spent $140.1 million overall on her bid for governor, eclipsing the amount spent on previous gubernatorial elections in the state.

By comparison, all the candidates in the 2006 gubernatorial election spent a combined $40.5 million, while 135 candidates spent a combined $49.9 million in the 2003 gubernatorial recall election. In 2002, gubernatorial candidates spent a combined $107.1 million.

The former eBay CEO herself has donated a total of $119 million to her campaign, more than any candidate has spent in personal funds in a single campaign. The previous record had been held by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who contributed $108.4 million to his 2009 re-election bid.

"California is an expensive place to run a campaign, but this is still a staggering amount for one candidate to spend on one statewide election," says CNN Political Research Director Robert Yoon. "This is a level of spending you usually only see from major presidential candidates and national party committees."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/06/whitman-breaks-record/

[rurallib]

1. Boy just think if that money went to a useful purpose.

[daleanime]

12. Right....

how much health care, how many hungry kids, how many homeless, how many schools could have been repaired/improved/build, etc...


:argh:

[WCGreen]

2. You know what's funny...

The Queen of EBay will, even though the highest bidder, lose the auction...

[Skidmore]

3. From your lips to the ears of the Universe...

I want this woman to lose soooooooo badly.

[RKP5637]

4. Gee, I wonder how much Nut-Meg would spend on a presidential bid. n/t

[mike_c]

10. shhhhhhhh....

Don't suggest it. :rofl:

[napi21]

5. I haven't hear it in the news but the networks & radio must be doing

BOOMING BUSINESS with all these millions flowing into campaign comercials!

[RKP5637]

11. Yeah, they thrive and profit on this. No wonder the MSM loves to keep controversy in

the face of everyone 7x24. One more reason why we need publicly funded elections with a cut-off $ limit. I'd also like to see campaigning with a start time limit before elections. Now all they do is campaign all the time. It's all ridiculous.

[napi21]

13. That's pretty much the program they have in England and it seems

to work quite well. They don't even permit TV advertising!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. And the best thing?

She. Is. Losing.


:woohoo:

[LynneSin]

7. And to think if she dropped a few thousand to help get her maid legal....

that money would have been worth something.

Instead she might as well just made a giant bonfire with it.

[JuniperLea]

8. She would have been St. Margaret to millions!

She would have most likely cornered the market on the Latino vote. But no, her knee-jerk response is to hide evidence... "I don't know you; you don't know me." Karma is a bitch! But I thank her for stimulating the California economy! That's nice:)

[bullwinkle428]

9. I just LOVE the way she continues to stimulate California's economy!

...at the expense of her own bank account!

:evilgrin: