Story on how much Bloomberg spent winning the NYC Mayoral election. It's fairly interesting, and I found section that quotes his thoughts on how much one would spend to win such a campaign really amusing. File this under "Did I Say That?":

1. "Last spring New York magazine reported that Mr. Bloomberg had said that he would not spend as much as $30 million on the race, quoting him as saying, 'At some point, you start to look obscene.'
   In the summer, when it became clear that he would probably spend more than $30 million, Mr. Bloomberg told The New York Post that he did not remember saying it would be obscene to spend that much. 'My recollection is that I said you could not spend on New York City's race what was spent on the last Senate race here or the Senate race in New Jersey,' he was quoted as saying."

Outdoing his own expectations, Mayor Mike spent more than Corzine and fell only $200,000 shy of the combined spending of Corzine and Clinton in their race.

On a side note, I didn't know or have forgotten that Lazio spent $10.7 million more than Clinton on that campaign. Would have thought it was more even given the press around the race. Wonder if any of that cash went for the polls that kept telling us the race was a dead heat from June to September. The election told a significantly different story from the polls.
- posted by levinson @ 12/04/2001 10:58:00 AM