By Nov. 2, it seemed clear that a bulging checkbook wasn’t going to be enough to save Meg Whitman’s gubernatorial bid in California. Polls showed her trailing by a half-dozen points during the campaign’s final week. It seems she went down fighting. The Fresno Bee reports:
Whitman invested $2.6 million of her own wealth in her campaign on Nov. 2, the day she lost her bid for the governor’s office to Democrat Jerry Brown, according to a filing that appeared yesterday on the Secretary of State’s website.
That amount brought the billionaire former CEO’s total personal contribution to her campaign to a record-shattering $144,155,806.11.
Whitman’s was the priciest non-presidential campaign of all time. Brown beat her by 12 points.