From the Daily News:It's true: Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg, all by his lonesome, donated more money to campaigns in 2009 than the rest of the entire state's donors put together.
Obviously, most of that -- about $102 million -- was spent on his self-financed bid to win a third term, which he did in a narrow $175-per-vote victory over former city Comptroller Bill Thompson.
Bloomberg gave $109,490,000. Everybody else put together gave $90,723,510.19.
It really jumps out at you when you see it as a graph, which you can see right here, courtesy of NYPIRG.
Graphic from the Smart Asset
5 comments:
Obscene.
And we are surprised because?
Not surprised, just angry.
I should be expecting a check for $175 in the mail.
Typical way all the elections have gone in this country for too long. He who has the most gold makes the rules.
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