The American Prospect, January 28th, 2002
REMEMBER U.S. SENATORS Michael Ciresi, Bob Rovner, and Ed Bernstein? How about Representatives James Humphreys, Phil Sudan, Roger Kahn, Peter Wareing, and Shawn Donnelley? If these names don't ring a bell, that's understandable. These are just a sampling of the super-rich candidates who poured millions of dollars into their own campaigns and lost.
As the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics notes in its indispensable report The Big Picture: "In 2000, as in earlier years, most of the biggest self-spenders lost on election day." So maybe the problem presented by New York Mayor Michael B...
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