Hollywood bigwig Steve Bing shelled out some $40 million of his own wealth to make up the bulk of a $47 million
campaign for Proposition 87, an oil tax that would have funded alternative-energy projects.
Cogswell asked Campbell to manage his
campaign for the Seattle City Council.
Campaign money--not votes--is now the currency of our democracy, determining who is able to run a viable
campaign for office, who usually wins, and who has the ear of elected officials," said Nick Nyhart, executive director of Public Campaign.
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campaign for election finance reform, features alarmist head-lines such as "Ka-Ching: National Parties Raise Record $160.
Access to money or possession of wealth should not be the prerequisite to conducting a viable
campaign for public office.
A new group, calling itself the
Campaign for America's Future, contends that it is not.
Nonmonetary contributions valued at $1,893 and $1,631 were received from Kamal Al-Khatib's
campaign for the Antelope Valley Union High School District board and Mayor Jim Ledford's re-election campaign, respectively.
In 1956, Nixon wanted to
campaign for vice president in all 50 states.
As the
campaign for mayor enters its final week, City Attorney James Hahn escalated his campaign against former Assembly Speaker Antonio Villaraigosa on Sunday with a new commercial questioning Villaraigosa's role in the presidential pardon of a convicted drug dealer.
With 49 other alderman races to write about, as well as a bitter
campaign for mayor, all the press has time for is the basic "who's who" piece.
Wealthy folks are entitled to contribute massive amounts of personal money to their own
campaign for public office without any limitations whatsoever.
