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Meg Whitman spent $178.5 million -- $43.25 per vote -- in gubernatorial bid
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| Last Edited | Jason Feb 08, 2011 03:19pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - San Jose Mercury News |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 1, 2011 03:50:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 2010 Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman's campaign spent $178.5 million, of which $144.2 million was from her own pocket, according to campaign finance reports filed Monday.
The Whitman campaign's overall spending broke down to $43.25 per vote she received in November's general election; from her own pocket, it was $34.93 per vote.
Despite her national record-breaking personal spending, Whitman lost the race by about 1.3 million votes, or about 12.9 percentage points, to Democrat Jerry Brown, whose campaign raised $40.45 million -- including almost $7.67 million he moved over from his Attorney General's campaign committee -- and spent about $36.43 million.
But Brown had a lot of other help, too. For example, the California Working Families for Jerry independent expenditure committee created by public employee unions to support his candidacy spent $9.26 million; the California Teachers Association's IE committee spent $3.41 million; and Working Californians to Support Jerry Brown spent $3.12 million. |
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