{"id":11491,"date":"2010-04-08T21:39:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T21:39:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-08T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T21:39:06","slug":"meg-buy-it-now-whitman-spends-more-money-than-all-200708-cycle-gov-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/08\/meg-buy-it-now-whitman-spends-more-money-than-all-200708-cycle-gov-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Meg &#8220;Buy It Now&#8221; Whitman Spends More Money Than All 2007-08 Cycle Gov. Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2007-08 campaign cycle, 14 states elected a new governor (and lt. governor). &nbsp;146 candidates ran for those positions, and 60 of them self-financed. But none of them were Meg Whitman.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/self-financing-whitman-tops-all-07-08-governor-candidates-combined\">new report by CalWatch<\/a>, the numbers for those 60 candidates are compared to eMeg. &nbsp;And the numbers aren&#8217;t all that shocking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>60 spent a combined total of $47 million financing their own campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>With her most recent &#8220;incremental investment&#8221; of $20 million this week, Whitman has now pumped $59 million into her own campaign, and there are still seven months to go before Election Day. (<a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/self-financing-whitman-tops-all-07-08-governor-candidates-combined\">CalWatch<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, compared to Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s $109 million to win the Mayor&#8217;s race last year, it&#8217;s still a relatively small amount. However, Meg still has several months to go, never underestimate her ambition&#8230;or her bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2007-08 campaign cycle, 14 states elected a new governor (and lt. governor). &nbsp;146 candidates ran for those positions, and 60 of them self-financed. But none of them were Meg Whitman.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/self-financing-whitman-tops-all-07-08-governor-candidates-combined\">new report by CalWatch<\/a>, the numbers for those 60 candidates are compared to eMeg. &nbsp;And the numbers aren&#8217;t all that shocking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>60 spent a combined total of $47 million financing their own campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>With her most recent &#8220;incremental investment&#8221; of $20 million this week, Whitman has now pumped $59 million into her own campaign, and there are still seven months to go before Election Day. (<a href=\"http:\/\/californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/self-financing-whitman-tops-all-07-08-governor-candidates-combined\">CalWatch<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, compared to Mike Bloomberg&#8217;s $109 million to win the Mayor&#8217;s race last year, it&#8217;s still a relatively small amount. However, Meg still has several months to go, never underestimate her ambition&#8230;or her bank account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[415,4467],"class_list":["post-11491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-415","tag-4467"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Zl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}